The seven stars of the Big Dipper carry at least three independent identities in the atlas, and none of the other two is a bear.
Meskhetiu is the Egyptian reading: the foreleg, or in some renderings the adze, of a slaughtered bull. It is drawn on Egyptian star ceilings as a severed limb, connected with the god Set and with the opening of the mouth ceremony, in which an adze of the same shape is touched to a mummy's face so the dead may eat and speak again. The instrument and the constellation share a name on purpose, tying a funerary rite to the northern sky. From Egypt's latitude these stars never set, and the imperishable stars are where the dead king was understood to go.
Banat Nash is the Arabic reading, and it turns the same seven stars into a funeral scene of its own, unrelated to the Egyptian one beyond both being about death. The four bowl stars are Nash, a bier, and the three handle stars are the Banat Nash, the daughters of the bier, walking behind it in mourning. The middle daughter, Mizar, is shadowed by the faint star Alcor, called Suha in this tradition and used as a traditional test of eyesight.
Both readings are why so many stars in this part of the sky carry Arabic names in modern catalogues even though the bear itself is Greek: the naming survived a translation of the astronomy that the figure did not.