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Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia · — · Cassiopeia
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The names
tribal 3
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangripe | Garo the Garo Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya) | 'the carrying of the body' The bearing of the corpse to the funeral pyre — the opening scene of the funeral of the moon's mother, which is the single story the Garo sky tells. | tribal |
| Namli / Namali | Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana | 'a peacock' One of the five or six animals that stand around Samdur and forecast the monsoon by their brightness. Landgi Pod reads the peacock as a bad sign, Chinchpod as less rain, Kakban as less rain. Six of the ten villages knew the animals. | tribal |
| Sohlu vang araipa | Mara (Lakher) the Lakher country, southern Lushai Hills (now southern Mizoram) and the Chin Hills | Five stars formed out of four men and a flying fox's skin which they were stretching out to dry when the great darkness descended. | tribal |
Sources
- Major A. Playfair, The Garos (London: David Nutt, 1909), p. 86 link
- M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, Kishore Menon and Harini Calamur, 'The astronomy of two Indian tribes: the Banjaras and the Kolams', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 17(1), 65-84 (2014), Table 2 row 12, p. 71, and Appendix 1.2.2 (Janguguda), p. 80 link
- N.E. Parry, The Lakhers (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 496 link