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Pegasus
the Great Square of Pegasus · α, β, γ Pegasi with α Andromedae · Pegasus
names 7languages 4stars 14
The names
tribal 7
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manganchi | Garo the Garo Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya) | The four upright posts between which the wood for the cremation was heaped; the brightest of the four is the post to which the sacrificial buffalo was tethered. | tribal |
| Mekam / Mokam; Rohi; Gorya | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a deer' Average rain at Landgi Pod and Raipur, less than normal at Chinchpod, more at one reading. | tribal |
| Samdur | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a sea', from which the rain comes Eight of ten villages. Animal asterisms are seen around the Square — a peacock, a buffalo, a frog, a deer, a horse and sometimes a pig — and their relative brightness is taken to forecast the strength of the coming rain. | tribal |
| Aphilu | Mara (Lakher) the Lakher country, southern Lushai Hills (now southern Mizoram) and the Chin Hills | Four stars representing the corners of a piece of bamboo matting, which was being made when the great darkness fell. | tribal |
| bursi ipilko | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the smouldering-fire stars The dying embers of the fire the threshing-floor watchman keeps under his cot on cold nights. Hoffmann adds that Mundas who do not know the maraṅ parkom group transfer the name to the Pleiades. | tribal |
| bursi kumbuṛu ipilko (bursi repą ipilkiŋ) | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the fire-thief stars Three men creep up on a sleeping watchman to steal embers from the fire under his cot; two of them are these stars, lying west of the bed on a line pointing at the fire. | tribal |
| maraṅ parkom ipilko; Siṅgboṅga gitikente parkom ipilko | Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand | the great bed stars; the bed Siṅgboṅga sleeps on On so great and splendid a bed none but Siṅgboṅga can be supposed to sleep. | tribal |
Sources
- Major A. Playfair, The Garos (London: David Nutt, 1909), p. 86–87 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Table 2 row 12, p. 71, and Appendix 1.2.2 (Janguguda), p. 80 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Table 2, p. 71 link
- N.E. Parry, The Lakhers (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 496 link
- Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link