Oxib'Xk'ub
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Oxib'Xk'ub is Mayan constellation for primordial fire.
Etymology and History
This fire, Oxib'Xk'ub, was lighted at the moment of creation, and mayas saw its smoke represented as the Orion's nebula (M42), between three bright stars representing the three hearthstones.[1][2]
Mythology
IAU Working Group on Star Names
Weblinks
Reference
- ↑ The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Dissertation) by Jakub Špoták
- ↑ 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.
