UmNyele
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
Authors: ASE Tech Team
umNyele is a Xhosa term for Milky Way.
Etymology and History
“umNyele” is the Xhosa for the raised bristles along the back of the sky, like those on the back of an angry dog. It was told that the dog would rise up if you point to the heaven with straight fingers. This was a good deterrence and the people would remember to show respect for the god “Qamata” by always pointing to the sky with a bent finger.[1]
Mythology
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Reference
- ↑ Lock, Suki (online). Tukano 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): 735-736.
