Names
In traditional Chinese astronomy, Eta Carinae has the names Tseen She (from the Chinese 天社 "Heaven's altar") and Foramen. It is also known as 海山二 (Hǎi Shān èr, English: the Second Star of Sea and Mountain), referring to Sea and Mountain, an asterism that Eta Carinae forms with s Carinae, λ Centauri and λ Muscae.
The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria, Australia saw it as Collowgullouric War, the wife of War (Canopus).
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