Also read shoshuku; also shukuyō 宿曜. Meaning constellation, this term refers in Buddhist iconography to planets, stars, constellations, and other heavenly bodies that have been deified and incorporated into Buddhism. They include the nine planets, kuyō 九曜 or kushitsu 九執: the sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rago 羅ご (Sk: Rahu), and Keito 計都 (Sk: Ketu); the twelve houses of the zodiac, jūniku or jūnikyū 十二宮; the twenty-eight lunar mansions *nijūhasshuku 二十八宿; and *Myōken 妙見 (the deification of the Polestar or Big Dipper). In addition, Nitten 日天 (sun) and Gatten 月天 (moon) and perhaps *Nikkō Gakkō 日光･月光 might also be broadly included in this category. The twelve houses and twenty-eight lunar mansions are depicted in the Gekongōbuin 外金剛部院 of the Matrix mandala *Taizōkai mandara 胎蔵界曼荼羅, and there are a number of other mandalas *mandara 曼荼羅, generically known as *hoshi mandara 星曼荼羅, dedicated to these entities *hokuto mandara 北斗曼荼羅. The term sidereal division, seishukubu 星宿部, is sometimes used as a collective designation for this category of Buddhist deities.