Marodikoya
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Marodikoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the spirit of marail guan.
Etymology and History
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Origin of Constellation
The constellation Marodikoya ‘Spirit of the marail guan’ was mentioned by Claudius de Goeje, who comments that it has the shape of the marail guan (Penelope marail).[1] The constellation is not known to contemporary Lokono; neither do we know what its appearance used to signify.[2]
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- References (general)
- ↑ Goeje, Claudius Henricus de. 1942. “De Inwijding Tot Medicijnman Bij de Arawakken (Guyana) in Tekst En Mythe.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië 101: 211–76.
- ↑ 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.
