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Eagle

Eagle
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Aquila, named in the Western way and used as a bearing rather than as a constellation the Chukchee keep. 2-033: "The stars Altair and Tarared of the constellation Eagle are combined by the Chukchee into a separate constellation", which "is believed to usher in the light of the new year, because it begins to appear above the horizon at the time of the winter solstice", and to which the Reindeer Chukchee and most Maritime families sacrifice at its first appearance. On both the Kolyma and the Anadyr Bogoras was told it was a forefather of the tribe.

So the entry is the Western constellation Bogoras measures from, the same division Lynx records, where the constellation Lynx carries the Chukchee Elk-Hunter.

The capitalized Eagle of 3-071's tale, who takes the Raven's wife, appears only there; this constellation stands for him.

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Eagle English not the bird; 3-071 sets the same word for the Eagle of the exchange-marriage tale
mentioned on 3 of 717 page(s), 13 time(s):
  • 2-033 uncollated he stars. The stars Altair and Tarared of the constellationEagleare combined by the Chukchee into a separate constellation,
  • 2-036 uncollated a vertical row, three stars (e) which represent Pehiˊttin (Eagle).² The group on the right hand represents Orion (f) and the
  • 3-071 uncollated age is vividly depicted thus in the tale, The Raven and theEaglein an Exchange Marriage: “There lived a Raven and an Eagle.