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	Yokharhin is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the Hunter.		Yokharhin is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the Hunter.

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	=== Origin of Constellation ===		=== Origin of Constellation ===
	The constellation Yokhârhin ‘Hunter’ corresponds to α Centauri and represents the man hunting [[Hithikoya]], the ‘Spirit of the black curassow’.<ref>Brett, William Henry. 1880. Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana. London: Williams Wells Gardner.</ref><ref>Roth, Walter Edmund. 1915. An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology 30. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.</ref><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> His companion holding a torch known as Alêti is represented by β Centauri. The myth reported by the Penard brothers that explains the origin of Hithikoya includes also these two characters.<ref name=":0" /> According to the story, Hithikoya used to live on earth, but the Lokono kept tracking him down at night and shoot him. As a result, it ascended to the sky to serve as a signal for black curassows warning them about the approaching hunter (Yokhârhin) and his companion with a torch ([[Aleti\|Alêti]]). As Hithikoya appears higher and higher in the morning between January and March, Yokhârhin and subsequently Alêti appear on the horizon following it. This indicates to the Lokono that the black curassow can now be found high in the tress and the hunters can set out at night to hunt it in the tree tops.		The constellation Yokhârhin ‘Hunter’ corresponds to α Centauri and represents the man hunting [[Hithikoya]], the ‘Spirit of the black curassow’.<ref>Brett, William Henry. 1880. Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana. London: Williams Wells Gardner.</ref><ref>Roth, Walter Edmund. 1915. An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology 30. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.</ref><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> His companion holding a torch known as Alêti is represented by β Centauri. The myth reported by the Penard brothers that explains the origin of Hithikoya includes also these two characters.<ref name=":0" /> According to the story, Hithikoya used to live on earth, but the Lokono kept tracking him down at night and shoot him. As a result, it ascended to the sky to serve as a signal for black curassows warning them about the approaching hunter (Yokhârhin) and his companion with a torch ([[Aleti\|Alêti]]). As Hithikoya appears higher and higher in the morning between January and March, Yokhârhin and subsequently Alêti appear on the horizon following it. This indicates to the Lokono that the black curassow can now be found high in the tress and the hunters can set out at night to hunt it in the tree tops.<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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Yokharhin is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the Hunter.

== Etymology and History ==

=== Spelling Variants ===

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=== Origin of Constellation ===
The constellation Yokhârhin ‘Hunter’ corresponds to α Centauri and represents the man hunting [[Hithikoya]], the ‘Spirit of the black curassow’.<ref>Brett, William Henry. 1880. Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana. London: Williams Wells Gardner.</ref><ref>Roth, Walter Edmund. 1915. An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology 30. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.</ref><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> His companion holding a torch known as Alêti is represented by β Centauri. The myth reported by the Penard brothers that explains the origin of Hithikoya includes also these two characters.<ref name=":0" /> According to the story, Hithikoya used to live on earth, but the Lokono kept tracking him down at night and shoot him. As a result, it ascended to the sky to serve as a signal for black curassows warning them about the approaching hunter (Yokhârhin) and his companion with a torch ([[Aleti|Alêti]]). As Hithikoya appears higher and higher in the morning between January and March, Yokhârhin and subsequently Alêti appear on the horizon following it. This indicates to the Lokono that the black curassow can now be found high in the tress and the hunters can set out at night to hunt it in the tree tops.

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