Manaiakalani
Authors: ASE Tech Team
Manaiakalani translates to “The Chief's Fishline”. This refers to the legend of the demi god Maui and his fish hook. Maui is credited for pulling up the islands with his magical fish hook.
Etymology and History
This star line consists of two constellations. The Navigator’s Triangle on the north and Maui’s fish hook on the south. The Navigator’s Triangle is made of three stars Hawaiki (Deneb), Keoe (Vega), and Humu (Altair). (It is the same figure as the Summer Triangle for modern amateur astronomers.) These stars also represent the Polynesian triangle: Hawai’i (Hawaiki), Rapanui (Keoe), and Aotearoa (Humu). These three islands are pulled by the fish hook of Maui (Scorpius).
The northern pointer is found in the Navigator’s Triangle when you connect Wainielela (ε Cyg, Aljanah (Gienah)) and Hawaiki (Deneb). Southern pointers are in the fish hook when you connect Mili’opu (δ Sco, Dschubba) and Kahe (π Sco, Fang), the stars on the top of the hook.[1]
Mythology
Weblinks
Reference
- ↑ Mau Piailug of Satawal in Stellarium; printed in appendix of Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (eds.): Astronomy in Culture – Cultures of Astronomy. Featuring the Proceedings of the Splinter Meeting in the Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Sept. 14-16, 2021., Reihe: Nuncius Hamburgensis 57, tredition, Hamburg & OpenScienceTechnology Berlin (cBook)
