Xukut Ch'umil
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Xukut Ch'umil is Mayan star name for alpha centauri.
Etymology and History
Xukut Ch'umil means Corner Star. The reason is because it marked the southern corner of the night sky at the end of the dry season, in April.[1][2]
Mythology
IAU Working Group on Star Names
Weblinks
Reference
- ↑ The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Dissertation) by Jakub Špoták
- ↑ Eduardo Rodas-Quito and Javier Mejuto (online). Anutan 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.







