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Yowanakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the spirit of the green iguana.
Yowanakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the spirit of the green iguana.


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Yowanakoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the spirit of the green iguana.

Etymology and History

Spelling Variants

  • Yôwanakoya

Origin of Constellation

The constellation Yôwanakoya ‘Spirit of the green iguana’ is mentioned by the Penard brothers.[1] It represents the green iguana (Iguana iguana) and appears when the iguanas lay their eggs in the sand, which should be sometime in April and May, but the constellation remains unidentified.[2]

Mythology / Religion

References

  1. Penard, Frederik Paul, and Arthur Philip Penard. 1907. De Menschetende Aanbidders Der Zonneslang. Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde.
  2. Rybka, Konrad (online). Lokono 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): 706-726.