ONdwenjana
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
Authors: ASE Tech Team
oNdwenjana is a Zulu constellation for Orion's sword.
Etymology and History
One of the descriptions of Orion’s Sword is as a long-stemmed flower, such as a lily. However the meaning of this group of stars isn't completely clear, because “oNdwenjana” could also be another tall object like a tree or a man.[1]
Mythology
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Reference
- ↑ Lock, Suki (online). Zulu 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): 736-737.
