Basket-carrying star - Basket-carrying star

...In Burma, the three stars are also seen as a man carrying his blind parents in a basket, and the legend of the filial piety of the Bodhisattva Shangmoka may be related to the Japanese name. The Japanese name for the mountain shape drawn by the basket-carrying star, alpha star of Scorpio (Antares), along with the third magnitude stars τ and σ on either side. The central star is seen as a farmer, fisherman, or sometimes a merchant, and the two stars on either side are seen as a bag carried on a balance pole or a basket....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kagokatsugiboshi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…なお，ビルマ地方でも三つ星を盲の両親をかごでになうむすこと見，商莫迦菩薩（さまかぼさつ）の孝養伝説を伴っていることは，和名と関係があるかもしれない。　かごかつぎ星さそり座のα星(アンタレス)が，左右の3等星τ,σとともに描く山形の和名。中央の星を農夫，漁夫，ときに商人と見，左右の星をてんびん棒や〈おおこ〉でかつぐ荷かごと見る。…

※「かごかつぎ星」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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