79 www.folklore.ee/folklore THE COSMIC HUNT: VARIANTS OF A SIBERIAN- – NORTH-AMERICAN MYTH *

• Main Author: Yuri Berezkin
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: comparative; Siberian; Central Asian; American Indian; Eskimo; Arctic; Indian; Orion; Pleiades; Rigel; The Handle; The Pleiades; eskimo*; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.8858; http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol31/berezkin.pdf

The mythological motif of the Cosmic Hunt is peculiar to Northern and Cen-tral Eurasia and for the Americas but seems to be absent in other parts of the globe. Two distinct Eurasian versions demonstrate North-American par-allels at the level of minor details which could be explained only by particul...