Pegasus

the Great Square of Pegasus · α, β, γ Pegasi with α Andromedae · Pegasus

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The names

tribal 7

Name	Language	Meaning	Register
Manganchi	Garo the Garo Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya)	The four upright posts between which the wood for the cremation was heaped; the brightest of the four is the post to which the sacrificial buffalo was tethered.	tribal
Mekam / Mokam; Rohi; Gorya	Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana	'a deer' Average rain at Landgi Pod and Raipur, less than normal at Chinchpod, more at one reading.	tribal
Samdur	Kolami Kolam villages of Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, and adjoining Adilabad, Telangana	'a sea', from which the rain comes Eight of ten villages. Animal asterisms are seen around the Square — a peacock, a buffalo, a frog, a deer, a horse and sometimes a pig — and their relative brightness is taken to forecast the strength of the coming rain.	tribal
Aphilu	Mara (Lakher) the Lakher country, southern Lushai Hills (now southern Mizoram) and the Chin Hills	Four stars representing the corners of a piece of bamboo matting, which was being made when the great darkness fell.	tribal
bursi ipilko	Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand	the smouldering-fire stars The dying embers of the fire the threshing-floor watchman keeps under his cot on cold nights. Hoffmann adds that Mundas who do not know the maraṅ parkom group transfer the name to the Pleiades.	tribal
bursi kumbuṛu ipilko (bursi repą ipilkiŋ)	Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand	the fire-thief stars Three men creep up on a sleeping watchman to steal embers from the fire under his cot; two of them are these stars, lying west of the bed on a line pointing at the fire.	tribal
maraṅ parkom ipilko; Siṅgboṅga gitikente parkom ipilko	Mundari Chota Nagpur plateau, Ranchi district, Jharkhand	the great bed stars; the bed Siṅgboṅga sleeps on On so great and splendid a bed none but Siṅgboṅga can be supposed to sleep.	tribal

Sources

Major A. Playfair, The Garos (London: David Nutt, 1909), p. 86–87 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
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, p. 71 link
N.E. Parry, The Lakhers (London: Macmillan, 1932), p. 496 link
Hoffmann, Encyclopaedia Mundarica, vol. VII, s.v. ipil, cols. 1919-1925 link