Astronomy:Fanuankuwel

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Fanuankuwel is a "place of a whale with two tails"[1] location in Pacific and Polynesian mythology, recorded in the traditional celestial navigation techniques of the Caroline Islands. Part of the Trigger fishes tied together mnemonic-navigational system, it is sometimes grouped with Kafeŕoor as a 'ghost island'.[2][1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Emily Lyle. "Ten Gods: A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans (sample excerpt)". http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/60616. Retrieved 8 September 2020. "Kafeŕoor is a mythical vanishing island, Nalikáp and Nókitikiit are big waves, Máŕipeŕip (which means “small pieces”) is a very large, destructive whale, and Fanuankuwel is the place of a whale with two tails." 
  2. Saul H. Riesenberg (1972). "The organisation of navigational knowledge on Puluwat". Journal of the Polynesian Society, Auckland University. http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_81_1972/Volume_81%2C_No._1/The_organisation_of_navigational_knowledge_on_Puluwat%2C_by_Saul_H._Riesenberg%2C_p_19-56/p1?page=0&action=searchresult&target=#. Retrieved 8 September 2020.