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	Anorhakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to spirit of the cocoi heron.		Anorhakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to spirit of the cocoi heron.

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	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===
	The constellation Anorhâkoya represents the spirit of the cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi). It is recognized by contemporary Lokono as Ursa Major, in keeping with earlier identifications.<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> Claudius de Geoje reports that when it shines strong, the Lokono believe that strong winds will come, bringing dust into peoples’ eyes and consequently diseases: the heron picks their eyes with its beak, it is said.<ref name=":0" /> Similarly, according to Cornelius van Coll, Anorhâkoya is a heron whose beak is upside down. Should its beak be turned downwards, people would get all kinds of eye diseases.<ref>Coll, Cornelius van. 1903. “Gegevens over Land En Volk van Suriname I - Suriname’s Oorspronkelijke Bevolking.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 55 (1): 453–529.</ref> This can still happen when strong winds blow and carry the light from the beak into peoples’ eyes, since the light of Anorhâkoya (and other stars) travels with the wind according to the Lokono. The constellation is associated with the big dry season (August to December) and the storms and winds that are typical of this time. It appears in the morning in mid-November in the northeast with its beak down.		The constellation Anorhâkoya represents the spirit of the cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi). It is recognized by contemporary Lokono as Ursa Major, in keeping with earlier identifications.<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> Claudius de Geoje reports that when it shines strong, the Lokono believe that strong winds will come, bringing dust into peoples’ eyes and consequently diseases: the heron picks their eyes with its beak, it is said.<ref name=":0" /> Similarly, according to Cornelius van Coll, Anorhâkoya is a heron whose beak is upside down. Should its beak be turned downwards, people would get all kinds of eye diseases.<ref>Coll, Cornelius van. 1903. “Gegevens over Land En Volk van Suriname I - Suriname’s Oorspronkelijke Bevolking.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 55 (1): 453–529.</ref> This can still happen when strong winds blow and carry the light from the beak into peoples’ eyes, since the light of Anorhâkoya (and other stars) travels with the wind according to the Lokono. The constellation is associated with the big dry season (August to December) and the storms and winds that are typical of this time. It appears in the morning in mid-November in the northeast with its beak down.<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>

	== Mythology / Religion ==		== Mythology / Religion ==

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[[File:Anorhakoya Stellarium-003.png|thumb|Lokono constellation: Anorhakoya in the planetarium software Stellarium (CC-BY Konrad Rybka)]]
Anorhakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to spirit of the cocoi heron.

== Etymology and History ==

=== Spelling Variants ===

* Anorhâkoya

=== Origin of Constellation ===
The constellation Anorhâkoya represents the spirit of the cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi). It is recognized by contemporary Lokono as Ursa Major, in keeping with earlier identifications.<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> Claudius de Geoje reports that when it shines strong, the Lokono believe that strong winds will come, bringing dust into peoples’ eyes and consequently diseases: the heron picks their eyes with its beak, it is said.<ref name=":0" /> Similarly, according to Cornelius van Coll, Anorhâkoya is a heron whose beak is upside down. Should its beak be turned downwards, people would get all kinds of eye diseases.<ref>Coll, Cornelius van. 1903. “Gegevens over Land En Volk van Suriname I - Suriname’s Oorspronkelijke Bevolking.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 55 (1): 453–529.</ref> This can still happen when strong winds blow and carry the light from the beak into peoples’ eyes, since the light of Anorhâkoya (and other stars) travels with the wind according to the Lokono. The constellation is associated with the big dry season (August to December) and the storms and winds that are typical of this time. It appears in the morning in mid-November in the northeast with its beak down.

== Mythology / Religion ==

== Weblinks ==

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== All HIP Stars within this constellation ==
[[File:CH Anorhakoya Stellarium-004.png|center|thumb|Convex Hull for the stars inside Anorhakoya (CC BY Konrad Rybka).]]

== IAU Working Group on Star Names ==

== References ==

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