Editing Canopus (section)

===Australia===
Canopus is identified as the moiety ancestor ''Waa'' "Crow" to some [[Koori]] people in southeastern Australia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mudrooroo|title=Aboriginal mythology: an A-Z spanning the history of aboriginal mythology from the earliest legends to the present day|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|date=1994|page=27|isbn=1-85538-306-3}}</ref> The Boorong people of northwestern Victoria recalled that ''War'' (Canopus) was the brother of ''Warepil'' (Sirius), and that he brought fire from the heavens and introduced it to humanity. His wife was ''Collowgullouric War'' ([[Eta Carinae]]).<ref name=hamacher10>{{cite journal|last1=Hamacher|first1=Duane W. |last2=Frew|first2=David J. |date=2010|title= An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae|journal=Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage |volume=13|issue=3|pages= 220–34|doi=10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2010.03.06 |bibcode=2010JAHH...13..220H|arxiv = 1010.4610 |s2cid=118454721 }}</ref> The Pirt-Kopan-noot people of western Victoria tell of ''Waa'' "Crow" falling in love with a queen, ''Gneeanggar'' "Wedge-tailed Eagle"  (Sirius) and her six attendants (the Pleiades). His advances spurned, he hears that the women are foraging for grubs and so transforms himself into a grub. When the women dig him out, he changes into a giant and carries her off.<ref>Mudroodoo, p. 55.</ref>

The Kulin people know Canopus as ''Lo-an-tuka''.<ref name=hamacher10/> Objects in the sky are also associated with states of being for some tribes; the Wailwun of northern New South Wales know Canopus as ''Wumba'' "deaf", alongside Mars as ''Gumba'' "fat" and Venus as ''Ngindigindoer'' "you are laughing".<ref name="noctuary">{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Diane|title=Night skies of aboriginal Australia: a noctuary|publisher=University of Sydney|location=Darlington, New South Wales|date=1998|page=[https://archive.org/details/nightskiesofabor0000john/page/84 84]|isbn=1-86451-356-X|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nightskiesofabor0000john/page/84}}</ref>

Tasmanian aboriginal lore holds that Canopus is ''Dromerdene'', the brother of ''Moinee''; the two fought and fell out of the sky, with ''Dromerdene'' falling into Louisa Bay in southwest Tasmania.<ref name="haynes2000">{{cite book|last=Haynes|first=Ros D.|title= Astronomy and the Dreaming: The Astronomy of the Aboriginal Australians. Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers|date=2000|page=57|doi=10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6_3}}</ref> Astronomer [[Duane Hamacher]] has identified Canopus with ''Moinee'' in a paper dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral tradition to the late Pleistocene,<ref name=hamacher23>{{cite journal|last1=Hamacher|first1=Duane|last2=Nunn|first2=Patrick|date=2023|title=The archaeology of orality: Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene|journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|volume=159 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2023.105819|doi-access=free|bibcode=2023JArSc.159j5819H }}</ref> when Canopus was much closer to the South [[celestial pole]].