A Catalogue of Quechua Stars and Constellations

Name	Translation	Provenience	Identification	Remarks
+* 1.Alto piña ch'aska	"star which is already high" [i.e., in the zenith]	Sonqo Yucay	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	A star or planet in the "zenith" at midnight.
+ 2.Boleadora	(Sp.) a lasso with three balls at the end; also a "thief"	Misiminay	Shooting stars	-
+ 3.Ch'aska plata	"silver star"	Misminay	Shooting stars	-
+ 4.Ch'issin ch'aska	"evening star"	Misminay Sonqo Yucay Quispihuara	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	The evening star.
? 5.Coscotoca ch'aska	"star of the two equal parts"	Sonqo	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	A star or planet in the "zenith" at midnight.
? 6.Hatun Coyllur	"large star"	Sonqo	Sirius	This may be a generic term, equivalent to our "1st magnitude."
+ 7.Illarimi ch'aska	"dawn star"	Sonqo Yucay Quispihuara	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	Morning star.
+ 8.Locero	(Sp.) "morning star"; Venus	Sonqo Yucay Lucre	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	In Yucay, one informant talked of pachaypaqa locero ("dawn morning star"); an informant in Lucre called both the morning and evening stars "locero ".
+ 9.Pachapacariq ch'aska	"dawn of the earth/ time star," "morning star"	Misminay Sonqo Yucay	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	One Sonqo informant re-referred to pachaillarimi ch'aska ("dawn of the earth star").
?10.Torito	(Sp.) "little bull"	Misminay	Various 1st and 2nd magnitude stars and a planet	A star or planet in the "zenith" at midnight; torito is also the name of the "rhinoceros beetle" (Dynastinae).

*Symbols in this column indicate the degree to which confidence in the reliability of the data is justified: +=confident; ?=questionable; -=not confident.

From Josh Marcy's, Topher Wilkins' and Adam Tarnoff's ID1 paper.