Kimi

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Death image in Paris Codex

Kimi is Mayan constellation for death.

Etymology and History

This constellation, Kimi, appears in the Paris Codex as a skeleton, not yet clear whether it's an animal or not.[1][2]

Mythology

IAU Working Group on Star Names

Reference

  1. The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Dissertation) by Jakub Špoták
  2. Eduardo Rodas-Quito and Javier Mejuto (online). Maya 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): 702-705.