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Title: IZIKO PLANETARIUM


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IZIKO PLANETARIUM
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OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
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Pleiades i-Silimela
  • Roughly 440Light years from us
  • Contains more than 1000 stars
  • Known as isilimela in Xhosa Zulu
  • Selemela in
    SothoTswana
  • Tshirimera in Shona
  • Kilimela in Swahili
  • The month of June named after the pleiades in the
    Xhosa calendar
  • Used to count manhood years
  • Indicate the beginning of the year in Xhosa
    Calendar
  • Indicate agricultural cycle

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Orion Constellation ama-Kroza
  • Represents three sacred places
  • The Gave
  • The Starry Heaven
  • The third Heaven where the supreme God (Qamata)
    dwells

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CANOPUS - UCANZIBE
  • HARBINGER OF WINTER
  • THE MONTH OF MAY IS NAMED AFTER THIS STAR
  • CEREMONY OF MOANING THE BOYHOOD
  • (UKUTSHITSHA)

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SIRIUS INGQAQHAWULI / IQHAWE
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ORION - AMAKROZA
  • REPRESENTS
  • THE GRAVE
  • STARRY HEAVENS
  • THIRD HEAVEN WHERE SUPREME GOD (QAMATA) DWELS

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CANOPUS - UCANZIBE
  • HARBINGER OF WINTER
  • MAY MONTH NAMED AFTER IT
  • MONTH FOR MOANING BOYHOOD (UKUTSHITSHA)

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A Shooting star i-Nkwenkwezi etshekayo
  • Associated with Badluck
  • Believed to be an evil spirit
  • Todays generation associates it with Goodluck
    Western belief

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COMET UZATSHOBA / INTSHOBOLOLO
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Comet u-Zatshoba/i-Ntshobololo
  • Associated with the death of a king
  • Brings a deadly livestock disease
  • Predicts a natural disaster

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The full Moon- I-Nyanga ethwasileyo
  • When visible in the night sky, the following
    morning all children are given the de-worming
    medicine.
  • Pumpkin seeds
  • Aloe juice

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Crescent Moon i-Ceba le Nyanga
  • Predictive of a windy or a cold following day

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Venus iKhwezi (the godess of Love Beauty)
  • iKhwezi lokusa associated with diligence
  • iKhwezi lesibini one of boys field games
  • U-Celizapholo visible at the time of milking the
    cows
  • Uma-Dingeni the dating star
  • Distance 108.200.000 km
  • Year 224 days
  • Day 243 days
  • Speed 35.02km/sec
  • Diameter 12.100km
  • Temperature 480degrees C
  • Moons 0

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VENUS (MORNING) IKHWEZI LOKUSA
  • Diligence
  • Travellers
  • Chores

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Venus at midday iKhwezi lesibini
- Test of knowledge
Source http//www.taas.org/taas/memberphotos/mfle
enor/venusandmoon.jpg
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Venus the evening star uCelizapholo
  • Asking for milk
  • Time to milk cows

Venus the evening star uMadingeni
  • Dating star

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Jupiter i-Candabusuku/i-Mbalibusuku
  • The Biggest planet in our Solar system
  • It is a liquid gas planet
  • Its orbit is 12 earth years.
  • Distance from the Sun 778.330.000Million km
  • Diameter 142.800km
  • Day on Jupiter 9.8
  • Year on Jupiter 11.86 days
  • At Perihelion 740.900.000 km
  • At Aphelion 815.700.000km
  • Temperature 153 degrees C.

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Jupiter iCandabusuku/iMbalibusuku
  • Travellers
  • Story telling

Moon
Cape Town
Jupiter
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  • iLanga
  • iNyanga
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