i85A1. The North Star is a hole in the sky .34.36.37.39.46.
The North Star is a hole that leads to the upper world.
Khakas, Western Evenks, Baikal, Far Eastern, Western Yakuts, Negidals, (Orochi?) , Chukchi, blacklegs.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy [North Star: Tigir Tyundyugi - Naba Smoke Hole (which is a passage to another world)]: Butanayev 1975:231 (=2003:44).
Eastern Siberia. Evenks (all): Vasilevich 1959 [This is a fixed polar star, which the Evenks call buga sangarin (letters. "sky hole", "sky hole")]: 161-162; 1969 [North Star - Buga sa arin ("heavenly hole"); Togolgan Evenk Birars]: 210; Yerbogachen Evenks Katanga District [people from the middle earth sometimes make their way to the upper earth through the North Star; once they get to people in the upper earth, they cause them misfortune, usually nerve attacks; invisible to people in the upper earth land; a shaman named Gidalo ("dragonfly") decided to live in the upper land; brought a bird who ordered them to stock up supplies for three years; entered the upper world; when G. talks to the inhabitants, they notice that the fire shone; touched the girl, she went crazy; the shaman, having learned that the cause of the misfortune is a man of the middle earth, invites him to come back, shows a hole, a bird, a bird brings him home]: Vasilevich 1938, No. 39:36-37 (retelling to Vasilevich 1959:166-169); Evenki Orochons [there was no night, the sun was shining round the clock; moose bug (male during the rut) grabbed the sun, ran to side of the sky; the womb elk (enneung), walking with the moose, ran after him; night fell; hunter Mani took a bow, two dogs, ran after him; moose ran across the sky, M.'s dogs caught up and stopped them; The elk gave the sun to Moose, began to distract the dogs himself; Moose ran to the heavenly hole (North Star); M. shot Moose, started shooting at Moose, hit her with a third arrow; took the sun , returned to people; all hunters have become stars; since then there has been a change of day and night, space hunting is repeated; every evening moose steal the sun, and M. chases them and returns by morning the sun; the four stars of the Ursa Major bucket are the tracks of a male elk; three pen stars, three fifth magnitude stars near them, and the star closest to the constellation of Hounds Dogs are the tracks of Mani's dogs that stopped moose; M. himself - five stars below the bottom of the bucket, which are part of the constellation Ursa Major; the bucket of the Ursa Minor - traces of an elk trying to escape from its pursuers; the first and second stars of the bucket handle are M.'s arrows; the third star of the bucket handle (North Star) is the hole, or hole, through which the moose tried to escape]: Mazin 1984:9-10; Western Yakuts (northwest of the Vilyui District) [hole in the sky is under the horseback of the good supreme deity Ürün Aje Tojon; it coincides with the North Star and at the same time it is the solar zenith, from where the sun sends light and heat]: Popov 1949:256.
Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals (Supreme dialect) [n 'a sa sa a ‑nin Polar Star (known celestial hole) ']: Cincius 1982:250 ; (cf. Orochi: Aurora, Lebedeva 1978:210 ["n'ahn'a saan'i myth. one of the two holes in the celestial sphere (letters. heavenly hole; located near the place mon'o mon'o (n) monkey spirit habitats; through it, big shamans fly out of the universe)"], 218 [Purakta Polar Star']; Cincius 1982 [bu, burakta 'flint'; Purakta 'Polar Star' (in Oroch, the name of the North Star is clearly borrowed, because in this language the sounds r and p are almost exclusively in borrowed words)]: 250).
SV Asia. Chukchi [all worlds are connected by holes located under the North Star]: Bogoras 1907:307, 331.
Plains. Blacklegged ['Fixed Star' (Polar) -A Hole in the Sky]: McClintock 1992:499-500 in Sluijs 2012:2.