AUTHENTIC UKRAINIAN ASTROLOGY

A quite interesting fact is the presence of an authentic names of many of the constellations and star clusters in Ukrainian language. Now these names are seen as pure folk, but they were widely used by Ukrainian people and even in scientific literature until 1933, when the process of russification been started by the Soviet government, as a part of establishing of communist regime in occupied territories. It was recorded in a number of academic dictionaries of those times, for example Russian-Ukrainian Academic Dictionary of 1924-33 ed. Krimsky and Yefremov.

Here is an examples of authentic Ukrainian names of astronomical objects:

- Big Dipper - Velikiy Viz (the Great Cartload) 

- Ursa Minor - Malenkiy Viz (the Little Cartload)
- Cassiopeia - Pasika (the Apiary)
- Dolphin - Krynica (the Well)
- Orion's belt - Kosar (the Mower)
- Eagle - Divchyna z vidramy (the Girl with buckets)
- Hyades star cluster, forming the head of Taurus - Chipiga (the Handle)
- Pleiades star cluster - Stozhary

Let us look to the stars more!