Kib' Chuplinik

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Peccaries image in Bonampak mural. These pig-like animals are represented together just like the stars Castor and Pollux.

Kib' Chuplinik is Mayan constellation means two briliant ones.

Etymology and History

Kib' Chuplinik refers to Castor and Pollux, used at the beginning of the dry season to track the time at night.[1][2]

Mythology

IAU Working Group on Star Names

Reference

  1. ↑ The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Dissertation) by Jakub Špoták
  2. ↑ 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.
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