|
Name |
Translation |
Provenience |
Identification |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
+*11.Amaru contor |
the serpent changing to the condor |
Chumbivilcas |
Scorpio |
- |
|
-12.Arado |
(Sp.) "plough" |
Lucre |
Scorpio (?) |
- |
|
+13.Boca del Sapo |
(Sp.) "mouth of the toad" |
Misminay |
The Hyades |
The informant said that it is shaped like |
|
-14.Cabañuelas |
(Sp.) "small hut, cottage" |
Cuzco |
The Pleiades (?) |
A group of small stars which rise on August 1 and are used for crop predictions. |
|
+15.Calvario Cruz |
(Sp.) "the cross of Calvary" |
Misminay |
(a) head of Scorpio (b) Betelgeuse, Rigel, Sirius, and Procyon (c) Procyon, Castor, Belt of Orion, beta Tauri (d) Belt of Orion, tau Orionis, and Rigel |
- |
|
+16.Collca |
"storehouse" |
Misminay |
(a) the Pleiades (b) the tail of Scorpio (c) the Hyades |
Observed in weather and crop predictions. |
|
?17.Contor |
"condor" |
Misminay |
(a) the head of Scorpio (b) wing= alpha, beta, gamma Pyxidis wing= alpha Monocerotis tail= alpha Hydrae |
no. 36. |
|
+18.Chakana |
"bridge, stair" |
Misminay |
(a) Belt of Orion (b) Chacanuay= delta, epsilon, eta Canis Majoris |
- |
|
?19.Choque-chinchay |
"golden cat" |
Sonqo |
Tail of Scorpio (or dark spot inside tail?) |
- |
|
+20.Hatun Cruz |
"great, or large cross" |
Misminay |
(a) Betelgeuse, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon (b) Procyon, Castor, eta and mu Geminorum |
In Misminay, Hatun Cruz is the cross of the northern suyu ("quarter"). |
|
+21.Huchuy Cruz |
"small cross" |
Sonqo |
The Southern Cross (Crux) |
In Yucay, the Southern Cross is called Calvario. |
|
?22.Khaswa Coyllur |
"circle dance star(s)" |
Sonqo |
(a) gamma, delta, kappa, lambda Vela (b) Corona Borealis (?) |
The informant made a circular, spiraling motion when identifying khaswa coyllur on a star map. |
|
?23.Llama Cancha |
"Llama corral" |
Misminay |
? |
Informant described Llama cancha as a group of 56 stars. |
|
+24.Llamacñawin |
"eyes of the llama" |
Misminay |
alpha and beta Centauri |
The "eyes" of the Dark Cloud constellation of the Llama; no. 40. |
|
+25.Linun Cruz |
Linun=Lat. lignum; "wooden cross" or " the crucifixion cross" |
Misminay |
The head of Scorpio |
- |
|
-26.Mamana micuc |
"(the one who) eats his mother" |
Misminay |
greek symbol, pi, sigma, nu, tau Puppis |
A zig-zag line of stars near the mouth of the Dark Cloud
"Serpent" (Mach'acuay); informant's drawing |
|
?27.Ñawin Cristo |
"the eyes of Christ" |
Misminay |
alpha and beta Centauri (?) |
One informant mentioned ñawin Cristo while discussing the Llama (llamacñawin = "eyes of the Llama") |
|
+28.Papa Dios Cruz |
(Sp.) "the cross of God the father" |
Misminay |
Head of Scorpio |
Papa Dios Cruz=Calvario Cruz (no.15). |
|
?29.Pasion Cruz |
(Sp.) "the cross of the Passion" |
Lucre |
? |
Informant's drawing: |
|
?30.Pisqa Collca |
"the five storehouses" |
Sonqo |
Located somewhere from the belt of Orion to the Hyades |
See no. 32. |
|
+31.Pisqa Coyllur |
"the five star(s)" |
Misminay |
The Hyades |
One informant said that Pisqa collca (no.30) = Pisqa Collyur. |
|
+32.Qutu |
"pile" |
Sonqo |
The Pleiades |
The Pleiades in Sonqo are also called collca qutu ("storehouse pile"). |
|
?33.Sonaja |
(Sp.) "tambourine, rattle" |
Misminay |
(?) Corona Borealis |
Sonaja was said to set in the northwest about where the June solstice sun sets: Solstice set=296 degrees; Corona Borealis set=298 degrees. |
|
+34.Yutucruz |
"tinamou cross" |
Chumbivilcas |
The Southern Cross |
Yutu= the Coalsack (no.47). |
*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.
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that it rises about 8:00pm in mid-September.
