Three great civilisations each divided the sky into the way-stations of the Moon — and, watching the same Moon on the same path, they mostly picked the same stars.
China marked 二十八宿 — 28 lodges (xiù). India kept 27 nakshatras, one for each day of the sidereal month. Arabia named 28 manāzil, the mansions of the anwāʾ almanac. The counts differ by one or two, and the boundaries were drawn differently, but the marker stars line up again and again: this page lays all three over each other, star by star.
The clearest case is the red heart of the Scorpion, Antares: the Chinese Fire Star 心宿二, the Indian Jyeṣṭhā ("the eldest"), and the Arabic al-Qalb ("the heart"). One star, three ancient thrones — the same idea, three languages.
Walking the Moon's road by the Arabic mansions; for each marker star, its Chinese lodge and Indian nakshatra are resolved live from the shared coordinates.
| Arabic manzil | Marker star | Chinese 宿 | Indian nakshatra |
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Matches are computed on-device: each Arabic mansion's marker star is looked up against the Chinese lodge stars and Indian junction stars using the shared sky-culture-core.js cross-link engine and the same J2000 coordinates the three culture pages use. Where a system drew no mansion on that star, it is shown as "—". Counts: Chinese 28 宿, Indian 27 nakshatras, Arabic 28 manāzil.