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This Marshallese star name was originally recorded as ''Bage eo'' by the Catholic missionary August Erdland, who lived in the Jaluit Atoll from 1904 to 1914 (Erdland 1914: 79 #15). Erdland identifies it as γ Oph but also possibly as Procyon. |
This Marshallese star name was originally recorded as ''Bage eo'' by the Catholic missionary August Erdland, who lived in the Jaluit Atoll from 1904 to 1914 (Erdland 1914: 79 #15). Erdland identifies it as γ Oph but also possibly as Procyon. |
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''Bake'' is the spondylus mussel whose shell is used to make necklaces. A ''debwāāl'' is a drill used to drill holes in the mussels for that purpose. The asterism Debwāāl-eo ("the drill"), identified as 67, 68 and 70 Oph (originally recorded as ''Räbuäl eo'' by Erdland), is seen next to the star Bake-eo (γ Oph), the shell itself. |
''Bake'' is the spondylus mussel whose shell is used to make necklaces. A ''debwāāl'' is a drill used to drill holes in the mussels for that purpose. The asterism Debwāāl-eo ("the drill"), identified as 67, 68 and 70 Oph (originally recorded as ''Räbuäl eo'' by Erdland), is seen next to the star Bake-eo (γ Oph), the shell itself. |
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==Mythology== |
==Mythology== |
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Seen as a |
Seen as a spondylus mussel (''bake''), nearby ''Debwāāl-eo'' (stars in Ophiuchus) being a drill used to drill holes in the mussel to make "puka shell" necklaces [Erdland 1914: 83; Abo ''et al''. 2019, under ''Debwāāl-eo''; Johnson ''et al''.) |
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==IAU Name Discussion== |
==IAU Name Discussion== |
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Revision as of 14:13, 7 June 2024
A Marshallese star name for γ Oph. Pronounced "bakey-yew".
Etymology and History
This Marshallese star name was originally recorded as Bage eo by the Catholic missionary August Erdland, who lived in the Jaluit Atoll from 1904 to 1914 (Erdland 1914: 79 #15). Erdland identifies it as γ Oph but also possibly as Procyon.
Bake is the spondylus mussel whose shell is used to make necklaces. A debwāāl is a drill used to drill holes in the mussels for that purpose. The asterism Debwāāl-eo ("the drill"), identified as 67, 68 and 70 Oph (originally recorded as Räbuäl eo by Erdland), is seen next to the star Bake-eo (γ Oph), the shell itself.
Mythology
Seen as a spondylus mussel (bake), nearby Debwāāl-eo (stars in Ophiuchus) being a drill used to drill holes in the mussel to make "puka shell" necklaces [Erdland 1914: 83; Abo et al. 2019, under Debwāāl-eo; Johnson et al.)
IAU Name Discussion
References
- Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). Marshallese-English Online Dictionary. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/dicts/MOD/.
- Erdland, P. August (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner. Münster i.W.: Aschendorff (Bibliothèque-anthropos, 2(1)).
- Johnson, Rubellite, John Mahelona and Clive Ruggles (in press, publication expected in 2026). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names, 3rd edn. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
