Vanuatu (All Terms)
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
Authors: Youla Azkarrula
Vanuatu sky cultures have several different language for the celestial names. Their language is called "Lenakel language" after a major village in the area) is one of languages of Tanna island in Vanuatu. Its constellations are strikingly similar with other languages of Vanuatu, although names and meanings vary to some extent.[1]
Solar System Names
second draft?
| English | Netwar (Lenakel), Tanna (tnl) | Nahwal, Tanna (nwi) | Sesivi (Daakaka), Ambrym (bpa) | Olal, North Ambrym (mmg) | Melsisi, Pentecost (app) | Lolopuépué, Ambae (omb) | Wala-Rano, Malakula (upv) | Larevat, Malakula (lrv) | North Tanna (tnn) | Baki (bki) | Erromanga (Sie) (erg) |
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| Sun | Met | Iaa | Al / Metakal | Aho | Nial | Neiel | Mitgar | Mwereinyo | Nén / Nomonkam | ||
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| Earth | Ten | ||||||||||
| Shooting star | Mahau ramiwuk 'jumping star', bad omen foretelling a death | Meseli bisiu foretells a sunny and hot day | Wamso mwaiah / Wamso ah mworop | M'si tetv | Ioro | ||||||
First draft:
| Met | Sun | |
| Mawuk | Moon | |
| Mawuk wi | Waxing crescent: | 'new Moon' |
| Nail ratuatu | First quarter | 'it stays straight', meaning that in the sky the Moon appears straight in the zenith in the evening |
| Mawuk ramépép malwia | Full Moon | 'the Moon is like the fish épép malwia' (Platax orbicularis); also Nati tawar - means that when the sun is setting, the Moon just appears above the mountains |
| Numanmel | Last quarter | |
| Numanmel | Waning crescent: | |
| Mawuk ramemes | Lunar eclipse | dead Moon' |
| Mercury | ||
| Fétukai | Venus | Morning star |
| Kéwita | Evening star | |
| Mars | ||
| Karatéi | Jupiter | |
| Saturn |
List of terms (asterism names)
| Designation | Comment | |
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References
- References (general)
- ↑ Ramík, Dominik M. (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): 681-683.
