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

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 20, 1999, 1:19
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Steg Belsky wrote:

> Well, the Rokbeigalm, being seafaring nomads, probably have their own > names for many stars and constellations, but i haven't figured them out > yet. :) . Although they call the North Star _gamnuh-a sudnihmwe-a_, > "the Unmoving Star". >
Wilwarin and Valacirca appear low on the horizon. Menelmacar is more prominent in the night sky, but anyone who remembers Cuivienen might find it odd because the Swordsman of the Sky is upside down. Later travellers after the Rokbeigalm used the stars to mark the changing of seasons, for example, the rising of the Pleiades in spring marks the beginning of the year. Gil-Estel is also prominent in the night sky. Several groups that settled southern seas long after the Rokbeigalm had passed away found one lesser group of stars significant enough to adopt it as an emblem of identity, the Southern Cross. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.