Editing Canis Major (section)

=== In non-western astronomy ===
[[File:Canis Major above Kuantan Night Sky.jpg|thumb|right|Canis Major, observed above Kuantan (north is towards top right)]]

In [[Chinese astronomy]], the modern constellation of [[Canis Major (Chinese astronomy)|Canis Major]] is located in the [[Vermilion Bird]] ({{lang-zh |c=南方朱雀 |p=Nán Fāng Zhū Què |labels=no }}), where the stars were classified in several separate [[Asterism (astronomy)|asterism]]s of stars. The Military Market ({{lang-zh |p=Jūnshì |c=軍市 |labels=no }}) was a circular pattern of stars containing [[Nu3 Canis Majoris|Nu<sup>3</sup>]], [[Beta Canis Majoris|Beta]], [[Xi1 Canis Majoris|Xi<sup>1</sup>]] and [[Xi2 Canis Majoris|Xi<sup>2</sup>]], and some stars from Lepus.{{sfn|Schlegel|1967|p=428}} The Wild Cockerel ({{lang-zh |p=Yějī |c=野雞 |labels=no }}) was at the centre of the Military Market, although it is uncertain which stars depicted what. Schlegel reported that the stars [[Omicron Canis Majoris|Omicron]] and [[Pi Canis Majoris]] might have been them,{{sfn|Schlegel|1967|p=430}} while Beta or [[Nu2 Canis Majoris|Nu<sup>2</sup>]] have also been proposed.<ref name="ridpathcma">{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/canismajor.html#chinese |work=Star Tales |title=Canis Major – the Greater Dog |last1=Ridpath |first1=Ian |access-date= 1 March 2014 }}</ref> [[Sirius]] was ''{{lang|zh-Latn|Tiānláng}}'' ({{lang|zh|天狼}}), the Celestial Wolf,{{sfn|Schlegel|1967|p=431}} denoting invasion and plunder.<ref name="ridpathcma"/> Southeast of the Wolf was the asterism ''{{lang|zh-Latn|Húshǐ}}'' ({{lang|zh|弧矢}}), the celestial Bow and Arrow, which was interpreted as containing [[Delta Canis Majoris|Delta]], [[Epsilon Canis Majoris|Epsilon]], [[Eta Canis Majoris|Eta]] and [[Kappa Canis Majoris]] and [[Delta Velorum]]. Alternatively, the arrow was depicted by [[Omicron2 Canis Majoris|Omicron<sup>2</sup>]] and Eta and aiming at Sirius (the Wolf), while the bow comprised Kappa, Epsilon, [[Sigma Canis Majoris|Sigma]], Delta and 164 Canis Majoris, and [[Pi Puppis|Pi]] and [[Omicron Puppis]].{{sfn|Schlegel|1967|p=434}}<!-- cites previous two sentences -->

Both the [[Māori people]] and the people of the [[Tuamotus]] recognized the figure of Canis Major as a distinct entity, though it was sometimes absorbed into other constellations. ''{{lang|mi|Te Huinga-o-Rehua}}'', also called ''{{lang|mi|Te Putahi-nui-o-Rehua}}'' and ''{{lang|mi|Te Kahui-Takurua}}'', ("The Assembly of {{lang|mi|Rehua}}" or "The Assembly of Sirius") was a Māori constellation that included both Canis Minor and Canis Major, along with some surrounding stars.{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=212}}{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=215}} Related was ''{{lang|mi|Taumata-o-Rehua}}'', also called ''{{lang|mi|Pukawanui}}'', the Mirror of {{lang|mi|Rehua}}, formed from an undefined group of stars in Canis Major.{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=258}}{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=247}} They called Sirius ''{{lang|mi|Rehua}}'' and ''{{lang|mi|Takarua}}'', corresponding to two of the names for the constellation, though ''{{lang|mi|Rehua}}'' was a name applied to other stars in various Māori groups and other Polynesian cosmologies.{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=249}}{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=254}} The Tuamotu people called Canis Major ''{{lang|pmt|Muihanga-hetika-o-Takurua}}'', "the abiding assemblage of {{lang|mi|Takarua}}".{{sfn|Makemson|1941|p=236}}

The Tharumba people of the [[Shoalhaven River]] saw three stars of Canis Major as ''{{lang|dhu|Wunbula}}'' (Bat) and his two wives ''{{lang|dhu|Murrumbool}}'' (Mrs Brown Snake) and ''{{lang|dhu|Moodtha}}'' (Mrs Black Snake); bored of following their husband around, the women try to bury him while he is hunting a wombat down its hole. He spears them and all three are placed in the sky as the constellation ''{{lang|dhu|Munowra}}''.<ref name="ridley1875">{{cite book |last=Ridley |first=William |title=Kámilarói, and other Australian languages |publisher=T. Richards, government printer |location=Sydney, New South Wales |year=1875 |edition=2nd |pages=144–45 |url=http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Divisions/Academic/Library/Cultural%20Collections/pdf/ridley1875.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301195245/http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Divisions/Academic/Library/Cultural%20Collections/pdf/ridley1875.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-01 |url-status=live}}</ref> To the [[Wergaia|Boorong]] people of Victoria, [[Sigma Canis Majoris]] was ''{{lang|weg|Unurgunite}}'' (which has become the official name of this star<ref name="IAU-LSN">{{cite web | url=https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming_stars/ | title=Naming Stars |publisher=IAU.org |access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref>), and its flanking stars Delta and Epsilon were his two wives.<ref name=hamacher>{{cite journal |last1=Hamacher |first1=Duane W. |last2=Frew |first2=David J. |year=2010 |title=An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae |journal=Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=220–34 |doi=10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2010.03.06 |arxiv=1010.4610 |bibcode=2010JAHH...13..220H |s2cid=118454721 }}</ref> The moon (''{{lang|weg|Mityan}}'', "[[native cat]]") sought to lure the further wife (Epsilon) away, but {{lang|weg|Unurgunite}} assaulted him and he has been wandering the sky ever since.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smyth |first=Robert Brough |title=The Aborigines of Victoria: with Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of other Parts of Australia and Tasmania |publisher=J. Ferres, government printer |location=Melbourne, Victoria |year=1878 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/aboriginesofvict01smyt/page/433 433]–34 |url=https://archive.org/details/aboriginesofvict01smyt }}</ref>