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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks agoi don’t think names in other languages is great evidence, because they could just have adopted the same name regardless, since they presumably adopted the greek constellations as well.
Most cultures used to have their own almost entirely different constellations, the only stuff i think has some overlap is the really obvious simple ones like the southern cross.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
The thing is that native American didn’t get the name from Greek, yet, it is still reference to a bear.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
which cultures are we talking about here? i kinda don’t feel like going through every single set of native american constellations looking for ones that are bears…
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
scientificamerican.com/…/scientists-trace-society…