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Tagalog
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibilities are:
- From ma- + pulong (“meeting”), because the seven animals of the constellation seem to meet together
- From Mapulon, god of seasons in Tagalog mythology.
- Possibly from or related to Ivatan mapolon, an authority in the barangays of Batanes during the pre-historic period. The souls of the social upper class after death were said to enter the heavens and become stars.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mapulon (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜉᜓᜎᜓᜈ᜔)
- (astronomy) the star cluster Pleiades, reckoned as a constellation of seven goats
- Synonyms: Pulon-Pulon, Supot ni Hudas, Rosaryo
References
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 130: “Cabrillas) Mapolon ([pp]) ſiete eſtrellas [en el] çielo, metaf) de polon que es jũta por q̃ andan juntas.”
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 48: “Apulon. astron. Cabrillas. f. pl.”.
- Dante L. Ambrosio (2005) “BALATIK: Katutubong Bituin ng mga Pilipino”, in Philippine Social Sciences Review, volume 57, number 1
- Plansecia, Juan de (1589) “Customs of the Tagalogs”, in The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, volume vii, →ISBN, pages 178-179
- F. Landa Jocano (1969) Outline of Philippine Mythology, Centro Escolar University Research and Development Center
- Florentino H. Hornedo (2000) Taming the Wind: Ethno-cultural History on the Ivatan of the Batanes Isles, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, →ISBN
- Florentino H. Hornedo (1994) “Death and After Death: Ivatan Beliefs and Practices”, in Philippine Studies, volume 42, number 4, →ISSN, pages 509–527
- “Mapolong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018