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Genesis 1:14-19
14. And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
15. and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
16. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
18. to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19. And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.

I see no NAVIGATE in here...............

(no NEED to, BTW, for A&E had the GARDEN in which to live.)

As for the NORTH star; it matters not much WHERE the axis is 'pointed', there WILL be some kind of star close to be used as a pointer to NORTH. Sirius will NOT be the NS for too long before the presession of the Earth (just like a child's top) will cause the axis to trace a circle in the heavens that takes about 22,000 years to complete one cycle.

In the Southern hemisphere, there is NO bright star that is used as the SOUTH star, merely an asterism called the Southern Cross which is fairly close to the needed location.

"the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night...

and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
... and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth

Feeling picky? 8<)

"Governing" the night and the day by reading "signs" in the sky sounds like navigation to me ... After all, the men walking in the desert are governed by the stars they can see: No stars, no science. Also, notice they were "set" in their positions at this point in time, not that they were created. (Again, being picky...)

No sense of mystery about the universe either.

The story of Genesis wasn't written about navigation for people in the southern hemisphere.

(Admittedly, it's written about salvation for all people in the southern hemisphere, but that's the religious and faith and morals (absolute truth) of the Bible, not the explanation stories and tales and parables parts of the literature.