Kasipenikoya
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Kasipenikoya is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to the spirit of the sea turtle.
Etymology and History
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Origin of Constellation
The constellation Kasipenikoya ‘Spirit of the sea turtle’ was mentioned by Claudius de Goeje.[1] It refers to the spirit of an unidentified species of a turtle. It may be the case that it is the same as Katarokoya. The term kataro (Chelonia mydas) appears to be a term borrowed from Kari’na, it is thus possible that kasipeni is the original Lokono term for the same turtle. However, there are several species of turtles in the Guianas, thus kataro and kasipeni can also refer to different species, and their spirits be identified with different constellations.[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.
