Editing Coma Berenices (section)

===Non-Western astronomy===
Coma Berenices was known to the [[Akkadians]] as Ḫegala.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Douglas B. Miller |author2=R. Mark Shipp| title =An Akkadian Handbook: Paradigms, Helps, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List| publisher =Eisenbrauns| year =1996| page =53| isbn =0-931464-86-2}}</ref> In [[Babylonian astronomy]] a star, known as ḪÉ.GÁL-''a''-''a'' (translated as "which is before it") or MÚL.ḪÉ.GÁL-''a''-''a'', is tentatively considered part of Coma Berenices.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.undena.com/EL-UP/Reiner_and_Pingree_1981_Enuma_Anu_Enlil_-_BM_2.2.pdf| title =Babylonian Planetary Omens. Part Two. Enūma Anu Enlil Tablets 50–51| author1=E. Reiner |author2=D. Pingree| publisher =Undena Publications| date =1985| access-date =10 July 2016| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160816205420/http://www.undena.com/EL-UP/Reiner_and_Pingree_1981_Enuma_Anu_Enlil_-_BM_2.2.pdf| archive-date =16 August 2016}}</ref> It was also argued that Coma Berenices appears in Egyptian [[Ramesside star clocks]] as ''sb3w ꜥš3w'', meaning "many stars".<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.iac.es/proyecto/arqueoastronomia/media/Belmonte_Shaltout_Chapter_6.pdf |title=In Search of Cosmic Order: Selected Essays on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy|author1=José Lull |author2=Juan Antonio Belmonte|page=177|publisher=[[Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias]]}}</ref>

In [[Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world|Arabic astronomy]] Coma Berenices was known as ''Al-Dafira الضفيرة ("braid"),'' ''Al-Hulba'' ''الهلبة'' and ''Al-Thu'aba الذؤابة'' (both meaning "tuft"), the latter two are translations of the Ptolemaic ''Plokamos'', forming the tuft of the constellation [[Leo (constellation)|Leo]]<ref name="Kunitzsch"/> and including most of the [[Flamsteed designation|Flamsteed-designated]] stars (particularly [[12 Comae Berenices|12]], [[13 Comae Berenices|13]], [[14 Comae Berenices|14]], [[16 Comae Berenices|16]], [[17 Comae Berenices|17]], [[18 Comae Berenices|18]] and [[21 Comae Berenices]]).<ref>{{cite web | url =http://onesky.arizona.edu/arab-star-names/the-tail-hair/ |title=The Tail Hair |publisher=Two Deserts One Sky| access-date =6 November 2016}}</ref> [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi|Al-Sufi]] included it in Leo. [[Ulugh Beg]], however, regarded ''Al-Dafira'' as consisting of two stars, [[7 Comae Berenices|7]] and [[23 Comae Berenices]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Royal Astronomical Society|volume=14–15| title =Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society| year =1843| page =191}}</ref> R. H. Allen's ''[[Star Names]]'' gives the name ''Al Ḍafīrah'' to 15 = [[Gamma Comae Berenices]].<ref name="allen"/>

The North American [[Pawnee people]] depicted Coma Berenices as ten faint stars on a [[Tanning (leather)|tanned]] elk-skin star map dated to at least the 17th century.<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Ralph N. Buckstaff | title =Stars and Constellations of a Pawnee Sky Map | magazine =[[American Anthropologist]]| year =1927| volume=29|issue=2|page =282}}</ref> In the South American [[Kalina people|Kalina]] mythology, the constellation was known as ''ombatapo'' (face).<ref name="Mythologiques">{{cite book | first=Claude |last=Lévi-Strauss| title =Mythologiques| publisher =University of Chicago Press| year =1983| page =232| isbn =0-226-47487-9}}</ref>

The constellation was also recognized by several [[Polynesian peoples]]. The people of [[Tonga]] had four names for Coma Berenices: ''Fatana-lua'', ''Fata-olunga'', ''Fata-lalo'' and ''Kapakau-o-Tafahi''.<ref>{{cite book | author = Maud Worcester Makemson | year = 1941 | publisher = Yale University Press | title = The Morning Star Rises: an account of Polynesian astronomy| page=281| bibcode = 1941msra.book.....M }}</ref> The [[Boorong people]] called the constellation ''Tourt-chinboiong-gherra'', and saw it as a small flock of birds drinking rainwater from a puddle in the [[wikt:crotch|crotch]] of a tree.<ref>{{cite book | editor=Helaine Selin| title =Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy| publisher =Springer Science & Business Media| year =2012| page =75| isbn =978-94-011-4179-6}}</ref> The people of the [[Pukapuka]] atoll may have called it ''Te Yiku-o-te-kiole'', although sometimes this name is associated with [[Ursa Major]].<ref>{{cite book | author=Slovenská akadémia vied. Kabinet orientalistiky| title =Asian and African Studies| publisher =Veda| year =1999| page =32| volume =8}}</ref>