Ch’oom
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Ch'oom is Mayan constellation for vulture.
Etymology and History
Not clearly identified, but some researchers describe Ch’oom as a vulture, since it is not decorated and relates better to some ethnographic descriptions.[1][2]
Mythology
IAU Working Group on Star Names
Weblinks
Reference
- ↑ The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Dissertation) by Jakub Špoták
- ↑ Eduardo Rodas-Quito and Javier Mejuto (online). Maya sky culture in Stellarium, https://github.com/stellarium/stellarium , printed in Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (eds., 2022), Astronomy in Culture --Cultures of Astronomy. Astronomie in der Kultur--Kulturen der Astronomie.: Featuring the Proceedings of the Splinter Meeting at the Annual Conference of the Astronomische Gesselschafb Sept. 14-16, 2021, tredition, Ahrensburg (Germany): 702-705.
