Symbol of the Bear and the bear cub. Associated naturally with constellations since the Mesolithic times in the southern Slavs and Greeks. In the cosmogonic aspect of the constellation of the Little Bear (bear cub) has a Polaris, through which passes the Axis of the World (Axis Mundi). The Little Bear is understood as the mother of the world, generating all its physical phenomena (In the northern Slavs and Finns until the end of the 18th century, this place is occupied by the heavenly reindeer (moose) with a fawn, which is a "sacrifice to the world" sacrificial animal, which is killed and eaten in the harvest festival on September 8, hence, by the way, all hateful Finnish moose sweaters, The same analogy can be made in connection with the constellation of the Big and Little Bears. It is curious that before hunting a bear (whose name should not be mentioned by the way, the hunters of the Carpathian and Balkan regions sing seven "bear songs" for seven days, apparently connected with the number of stars in the constellations. In the not so distant past there was a belief from the Black Sea to the White Sea that on September 8, a reindeer (bear or moose in different tribes) brings her fawn to the village for sacrifice, but this tradition was interrupted when the villagers killed the reindeer....Since then they have to slaughter their cattle for the holiday. In this connection, it is necessary to consider Antonova's bear cub as a cosmic sacrifice coming from the Mother of the World through the world tree (Polaris). It is hard not to draw an analogy with Christianity, although one should not....

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