Yorhada

Authors: Youla Azkarrula

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Lokono constellation: Yorhada in the planetarium software Stellarium (CC-BY Konrad Rybka)

Yorhada (Yorhada)

Asterism Info
Native	Yorhada
Romanisation	Yorhada
Translation	Grill
Position (2000)
Right ascension	2.09691619 to 346.1902227
Declination	15.18359843 to 29.09043112
Area	223.15 sq. deg.
Stars
Bright stars	40
Bayer/Flamsteed stars	20
Stars brighter than 3.00m	4
Brightest star	Alpheratz (2.06m)
Taxonomy
category of asterism	constellation
IAU- constellations	Peg, And

Yorhada is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to grill.

Etymology and History

Origin of Constellation

The constellation Yorhada ‘Grill’, or Wiwa yorhadale ‘Star’s grill’, represents a wooden grill, on which meat is roasted. Its origin is explained in a myth related by Walter Roth about a man who killed his wife, roasted her, and fed her liver to his mother-in-law because she called him a worthless hunter. In revenge, the mother asked her brother, Kamodo to kill the man when he went hunting. The man suspected the woman set a trap and escaped death by sending his brother instead. The grill on which the wife was roasted became the Western constellation Pegasus, according to contemporary Lokono, marking the beginning of the small dry season (April), the time when the Lokono roast a lot of fish. The myth is similar to that of Yôkoro wiwa and the twins, in which the older brother is responsible for roasting his wife and may be the same as the man who roasted his wife in the Yorhada myth. In both myths, the younger brother killed by the anaconda becomes Yôkoro wiwa, while the grill becomes Yorhada. Claudius de Goeje suggested that Yorhada is the Western constellation Corvus, but Corvus does not appear at beginning of the small dry season. The neighboring Warao also know Pegasus as the grill, and are familiar with the myth.

All HIP Stars within this constellation

Convex Hull for the stars inside Yorhada (CC BY Konrad Rybka).

id	Label	IAU design.	description	Vmag
1	Alpheratz	HIP 677	Constellation lines (Vertex)	2.06
2	Scheat	HIP 113881	Constellation lines (Vertex)	2.42
3	Markab	HIP 113963	Constellation lines (Vertex)	2.48
4	Algenib	HIP 1067	Constellation lines (Vertex)	2.84
5	Alkarab	HIP 115623	Inside the hull	4.4
6	Salm	HIP 115250	Inside the hull	4.58
7	ψ Pegasi	HIP 118131	Inside the hull	4.66
8	56 Peg	HIP 114155	Inside the hull	4.74
9	ϕ Pegasi	HIP 117718	Inside the hull	5.08
10	71 Peg	HIP 116264	Inside the hull	5.42
11	75 Peg	HIP 116611	Inside the hull	5.482
12	87 Peg	HIP 729	Inside the hull	5.555
13	-	HIP 114096	Inside the hull	5.66
14	-	HIP 114449	Inside the hull	5.661
15	85 Peg	HIP 171	Inside the hull	5.75
16	-	HIP 114189	Inside the hull	5.953
17	69 Peg	HIP 115806	Inside the hull	5.979
18	V439 And	HIP 544	Inside the hull	6.07
19	-	HIP 116307	Inside the hull	6.111
20	23 Psc	HIP 117710	Inside the hull	6.113
21	-	HIP 114081	Inside the hull	6.15
22	-	HIP 118048	Inside the hull	6.166
23	-	HIP 114526	Inside the hull	6.21
24	-	HIP 716	Inside the hull	6.246
25	74 Peg	HIP 116592	Inside the hull	6.249
26	-	HIP 399	Inside the hull	6.25
27	65 Peg	HIP 115407	Inside the hull	6.267
28	76 Peg	HIP 116972	Inside the hull	6.293
29	-	HIP 114742	Inside the hull	6.34
30	-	HIP 115389	Inside the hull	6.354
31	V354 Peg	HIP 116119	Inside the hull	6.388
32	-	HIP 116187	Inside the hull	6.4
33	-	HIP 34	Inside the hull	6.434
34	-	HIP 115915	Inside the hull	6.44
35	-	HIP 113994	Inside the hull	6.44
36	-	HIP 410	Inside the hull	6.462
37	-	HIP 114686	Inside the hull	6.47
38	-	HIP 116465	Inside the hull	6.47
39	-	HIP 114844	Inside the hull	6.5
40	-	HIP 117939	Inside the hull	6.5

References

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