Warhokoma
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Warkohoma is an Arawakan star name from Lokono. This constellation is referring to Venus.
Etymology and History
Spelling Variants
Origin of Constellation
The planet Venus, both when it appears in the morning as the Morning Star and when it appears in the evening as the Evening Star, is called Warhokoma by the Lokono.[1][2][3] Charles Dance, on the other hand, reports the terms Eweiwah and Huewah, probably the equivalents of the general term wiwa ‘star’ which can be used for any shining celestial body.[4] The Lokono also speak of Venus as Hiyaro wiwa ‘women’s star’. In relation to this, it merits a mention that Claudius de Goeje reports that when Hiyaro wiwa appears close to the Moon, and a girl is about to have her first menstruation, the Lokono say that the girl will soon be touched by the Moon.[5] There is no myth about Warhokoma specifically and its relation to the Moon, but it is worth reminding that the Lokono know a story, in which the Moon was originally a man who committed incest with his sister (see the myth mentioned under Kathi), and has a name as a womanizer.[6] Interestingly, the name Warhokoma for Morning or Evening Star appears also in Kari’na, who see it also as the Moon's wife.[7][8][9]
Mythology / Religion
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References
- References (general)
- ↑ Goeje, Claudius Henricus de. 1928. The Arawak Language of Guiana. Amsterdam: Uitgave van der Koninklijke Akademie von Wetenschappen te Amsterdam.
- ↑ Brett, William Henry. 1868. The Indian Tribes of Guiana: Their Condition and Habits. London: Bell and Daldy.
- ↑ Baarle, Peter van, Mauricius Alberto Sabajo, van der Stap Gerdy, Sabajo Andreas L., and Sabajo Lucia L. 1989. Arhwaka lokonong djang: Arowakse taalkursus en woordenboek. Haarlem; Amsterdam: Sociaal-culturele Vereniging Ikyoshie ; Instituut voor Algemene Taalwetenschap, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
- ↑ Dance, Charles D. 1881. Chapters from a Guianese Log Book. Georgetown, Guyana.
- ↑ Goeje, Claudius Henricus de. 1943. Philosophy, Initiation and Myths of the Indians of Guiana and Adjacent Countries. Archives Internationales d’ethnographie. 44.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Penard, Frederik Paul, and Arthur Philip Penard. 1907. De Menschetende Aanbidders Der Zonneslang. Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde.
- ↑ Magaña, Edmundo, and Fabiola Jara. 1982. “The Carib sky.” Journal de la Société des Américanistes 68 (1): 105–32.
- ↑ 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.
