Re: Star Names (was; Re; Back!)

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:15:31 -0500, Carlos Thompson
<carlos_thompson@...> wrote:

>Orion is the Butterfly for Hangkerimians... well, for Hangkerimians that
>have studied some astronomy or astroloy... for common people in =
Hangkerim
>the whole constalation is reduced to the Butterfly body (Orion's belt) =
which
>they call the Three Witches.
>
>-- Carlos Th
Interestingly, the only constellation that has a name so far in Jarrda is
Jundi, the Butterfly ("j" pronounced as a voiced palatal stop). The =
outline
of the butterfly is formed mostly by stars from Cygnus, with a few from
Lyra, Cepheus, and Draco, as seen from the point of view of a planet
orbiting Procyon.

Now I'm not sure if there are butterflies on the Jarrda-speakers' home
world, or even where it is. Procyon isn't really the best place to put an
inhabitable world (but it's far better than Mizar!); the trouble is that
there aren't any suitable stars nearby either!

And I've already "borrowed" the Jarrda word for butterfly into Tirelat, =
as
"iunti" [jundi]. Actually, the Tirelat "c" would have been a better
equivalent for the Jarrda "j", but I bent the rules to avoid an =
unfortunate
visual similarity to an inappropriate English word.

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