Yorhada
Yorhada is an Arawakan constellation name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to grill.
Etymology and History
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Origin of Constellation
The constellation Yorhada ‘Grill’, or Wiwa yorhadale ‘Star’s grill’, represents a wooden grill, on which meat is roasted.[1][2] 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.[3] 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.[2] The neighboring Warao also know Pegasus as the grill, and are familiar with the myth.[3][4]
Mythology / Religion
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All HIP Stars within this constellation
IAU Working Group on Star Names
References
- References (general)
- ↑ Roth, Walter Edmund. 1924. An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roth, Walter Edmund. 1915. An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology 30. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ↑ 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.
