Editing Ursa Major (section)

===Arabian Folklore===
Whilst the [[Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world#history|Pre-Islamic Arabs]] recognised the larger constellation of [[Ursa Major]] as being a bear, perhaps due to Greek influence, they had traditionally always recognised the Big Dipper and Ursa Minor as being counterparts. Both were imagined as funeral processions with the ladle of either seen as a funerary [[bier]] and its handle as a train of mourners. The Big Dipper is known as ''banāt an-na'sh al-kubrā'' meaning literally "the greater daughters of the bier". However daughters here means ''those pertaining to it'', i.e. ''the mourners'' and thus is better translated as "the greater funeral procession", whilst Ursa Minor is known as the "the lesser funeral procession". There is also a legend that the body on the bier is the father of those following behind it, a man called ''Na'ash'' who was murdered by ''Al-judayy'' (the Arabic name for [[Polaris|the North Star]]) and whom the funeral procession is in pursuit of. <ref>{{ cite web|title=Lane's Lexicon Arabic to English p. 2816|url=https://lexicon.quranic-research.net/pdf/Page_2816.pdf/#}}</ref>