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Hokorherokoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to torch.

== Etymology and History ==

=== Spelling Variants ===

* Hakorherokoya

=== Origin of Constellation ===
The unidentified constellation Hokorherokoya ‘Spirit of the red-rumped agouti’ was mentioned by the Penard brothers, who explain that like Hadorhikoya, it follows Awarhakoya.<ref>Penard, Frederik Paul, and Arthur Philip Penard. 1907. De Menschetende Aanbidders Der Zonneslang. Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde.</ref> It signals that the ripe fruit attracts the agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) to the awara palms, where they can be hunted. Claudius de Goeje adds that it is followed by Kabadarokoya ‘Spirit of the tiger’, which, like humans, knows agouti's habits.<ref name=":0">Goeje, Claudius Henricus de. 1942. “De Inwijding Tot Medicijnman Bij de Arawakken (Guyana) in Tekst En Mythe.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië 101: 211–76.</ref> There is no Lokono myth about Hokorherokoya, but a Kari’na myth about the unidentified constellation of the agouti explains its origin. According to the story, there were two brothers, one married, the other not. The unmarried one killed the other, fed his liver to the wife, took her as his wife, and had a child with her. The dead brother's spirit told her that his brother killed him, so she and her child ran away, becoming the agouti and acouchi constellations. The spirit then told his brother to open his corpse and scatter his insides, which became the Pleiades, while the killer became the anaconda constellation.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Rybka, Konrad (online). Lokono sky culture in Stellarium, <nowiki>https://github.com/stellarium/stellarium</nowiki> , 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): 706-726.</ref> 

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