 There has been speculation that the Mayans of Central America may have described the nebula within their " Three <unk> " creation myth ; if so , the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion , Rigel and <unk> , and another , <unk> at the tip of the " belt " of the imagined hunter , the vertices of a nearly perfect equilateral triangle with Orion 's Sword ( including the Orion Nebula ) in the middle of the triangle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth , or , in ( the translation it suggests of ) an ancient one , the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation . 
