Editing Crab (section)

==Cultural influences==
[[File:A crab divination pot in Kapsiki.jpg|thumb|upright|A [[Nggàm|crab divination pot]] in Kapsiki, North Cameroon.]]

Both the [[constellation]] [[Cancer (constellation)|Cancer]] and the [[astrological sign]] [[Cancer (astrology)|Cancer]] are named after the crab, and depicted as a crab. [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] drew the [[Crab Nebula]] in 1848 and noticed its similarity to the animal; the [[Crab Pulsar]] lies at the centre of the nebula.<ref>{{cite book |author=B. B. Rossi |year=1969 |title=The Crab Nebula: Ancient History and Recent Discoveries |publisher=Center for Space Research, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |id=CSR-P-69-27 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19700008151}}</ref> The [[Moche (culture)|Moche]] people of ancient [[Peru]] worshipped nature, especially the sea,<ref>{{cite book |author=Elizabeth Benson |title=The Mochica: A Culture of Peru |location=New York, NY |publisher=[[Praeger Press]] |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-500-72001-1}}</ref> and often depicted crabs in their art.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Katherine Berrin |author2=Larco Museum |title=The Spirit of Ancient Peru:Treasures from the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera |location=New York |publisher=[[Thames and Hudson]] |year=1997 |pages=216 |isbn=978-0-500-01802-6}}</ref> In [[Greek mythology]], [[Karkinos]] was a crab that came to the aid of the [[Lernaean Hydra]] as it battled [[Heracles]]. One of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'', ''The Crab that Played with the Sea'', tells the story of a gigantic crab who made the waters of the sea go up and down, like the tides.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kipling|first1=Rudyard|title=Just So Stories|date=1902|publisher=Macmillan|url=http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1297/the-crab-that-played-with-the-sea/|chapter=The Crab that Played with the Sea}}</ref> In [[Malay people|Malay]] mythology (as related by [[Hugh Clifford (colonial administrator)|Hugh Clifford]] to [[Walter William Skeat (anthropologist)|Walter William Skeat]]), ocean tides are believed to be caused by water rushing in and out of a hole in the Navel of the Seas (''Pusat Tasek''), where "there sits a gigantic crab which twice a day gets out in order to search for food".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Malay Magic|last=Skeat|first=Walter William|publisher=Macmillan and Co., Limited|year=1900|location=London|pages=1–15|chapter=Chapter 1: Nature|chapter-url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47873/47873-h/47873-h.htm#s1.2}}</ref>{{Rp|7–8}}

The [[Kapsiki people]] of North Cameroon use the way crabs handle objects for [[divination]].{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

The term ''[[crab mentality]]'' is derived from a type of detrimental social behavior observed in crabs.