History of the star: A pale yellow star in Carina the Keel of the Ship Argo Navis.

This was the Latins' Scutulum, or "Little Shield". The Arabian name for it, Turais or Turyeish, probably referring to the ornamental Aplustre at the stern of the Ship in the subdivision Carina, but Hyde, quoting it as Turyeish from Tizini, said that the original was verbum ignotum, and suggested that someone else should make a guess at it and its meaning. Smyth wrote of it as "corresponding to the Greek aspidiske, of Ptolemy"; but the latter described it as being in the Greek akrostolion, Gunwale, and located kappa, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, and tau in the Aplustre, where they are shown to-day. The Century Atlas follows Smyth in calling iota Aspidiske. It is visible from the latitude of New York City.

[Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889, {Page 74}].

No myths or interpretations are associated with the constellation Carina because it was not visible to the ancients in the northern hemisphere, and it had always been seen as part of the constellation Argo Navis, the Great Ship, until French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1752 subdivided Argo Navis into Carina (the keel of the ship), Puppis (the poop), and Vela (the sails), plus a subordinate division of Argo now called Pyxis Nautica.