South African Astronomical Observatory: The best source for South African Astronomy.

Indigenous Constellation Names  

Other collections of indigenous stories include this ethnoastronomy site and this site for teachers.  The Sotho, Tswana and Venda saw the Southern Cross as giraffes.  The story of the girl who threw ashes into the sky and created the  Milky Way first written down in 1873.

Namaqua (Nama) constellations

Orion’s Belt known as Zebra Constellation in Namaqualand

A video of the Nama story about the Zebras and the Hopeless Hunter

Get a mini copy of the poster from the Map Companion book

 

Each figure indicates the modern location of a community whose constellations appear in the map.


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