43. 12 KAPAMPANGAN ASTRONOMICAL TERMS

Ancient Kapampangans were guided by the sun, moon and stars in their everyday life. They fished when the moon was full and reckoned time by the position of the sun. At times, they also saw other strange, celestial apparitions in the sky--comets, eclipses and streaking earth-bound lights—that left them awestruck and in fear. They soon believed that these ominous sights, too, affected the course of their future and their destinies. As they gazed up the skies, they began giving names to these complex, astronomical events, terms that we seldom use today.

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PICTURE SOURCES:

Aclap: : https://www.pinterest.com/scottownbey/city-streets/

Babo ning Masala: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ky8cc3khUeM/maxresdefault.jpg

Balasbas ning Aldo: http://www.morehead.unc.edu/Shows/EMS/seasons.htm

Bulalaco: http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/observing-shooting-stars, CTV News

Dulum: https://auntiemoon.com/moon-phase-waxing-or-waning/

Lauo: https: http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/m/sunandmoon/487866.aspx

Meto Sucluban Banua: https://prezi.com/hgd42dxlkmrq/biology-pl-creationism/

Simbul: https://www.startalkradio.net/what-was-the-star-of-bethlehem-find-out-friday-from-neil-degrasse-tyson/

Sulundaguis: http://www.skyhdwallpaper.com/planet-venus

Taclang Batuin: Singsing Magazine

Tala: http://www.projectmorningstar.org/

Tucud: http://www.aliensthetruth.com/ufo-sightings/pascagoula-alien-abduction/

OTHER SOURCES: 

Singsing Magazine. Romancing the Kapampangan Language. Vol. 4, No. 2.

Kapampangan dictionary, as compiled by Fr/ Diego Bergano.OSA