AmaKroza
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amaKroza is a Xhosa constellation for Orion's belt.
Etymology and History
In Xhosa the three stars of Orion’s Belt are known as the “amaKroza”, or “those in a queue”. These are the graves where ancestors rest peacefully, the heavens where their spirits roam and the most holy place beyond the starry heavens, the dwelling of the supreme god, “Qamata”.[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.
