What are the myths, legends, and folktales about the constellations?

Aries

The king of Disalia, Amasta, and the queen, Nephilim, gave birth to two siblings, Phrixus and Hera. One year there was a drought in the region, and the cruel stepmother Ina incited the king to sacrifice his children to the god Zeus. Knowing of this plot, Nefele asked Herman, one of the Olympic gods, for a golden-winged ram to carry her children on his back. The golden ram flew in great haste, but left his sister Hera in the sea. The Aries flew around in the sky looking for Hera, and this is the origin of the Aries constellation. As for Hera's brother, Phrixus, who arrived in Addis, he married the daughter of the king of the region and offered the Aries that saved him to Zeus, the god of the sky. Zeus then placed the golden ram in the twelfth house of Aries.

Taurus

The king of Phoenicia in the Mediterranean Sea (now Lebanon) had a beautiful daughter named Yoruba. Zeus, the god of the sky, always wanted to get her, but could not do anything about it. One day, when Yoruba and her maids were playing by the sea, they saw a snow-white bull, and she couldn't help pulling the bull lightly and riding on its back, but the bull rushed into the sea. The bull was transformed by Zeus, who carried Yoloba across the sea to the island of Crete. Yoruba bore Zeus three sons on the island. Yoloba was the first human being to reach this land, and her name is honored in Europe. As for the bull that Zeus transformed into, it became the Palace of the Golden Calf.

Gemini

The great Zeus, who was secretly in love with the Spartan king's beautiful consort Leda, turned into a swan and flew beside her. After her love affair with Zeus, she joined her husband and soon gave birth to two sets of twins. Two twins named Porcus and Helen with Zeus, and Castor and Clytaemnestra with her husband. Helen grew up to be the most beautiful woman in the world and caused the Trojan War. Castro was an expert boxer and Porcus a horseman, both were known for their bravery. One day, the brothers fought with the other twin, and the four fought over a cow. Castro, badly wounded, whimpered in agony, and Beaux, in tears and at a loss for words, told the gods that he was willing to die with his brother. Zeus appeared and told him, "You are my son and the god of mankind, if you promise to return to the Olympics with me, I will grant you this. But if you want to be bound to your brother's fate, you will have to live half your life underground and half in the sky, and you will have to choose a path. Not wanting to lose his brother, Box chose the latter. From then on, he accompanied Castro from earth to heaven. Later, when a Greek ship sailed into a storm, stars appeared above the two brothers' heads and the storm stopped. Gemini became the guardian star of navigation.

The Pisces

Aphrodite and her son Eros, or Venus, the goddess of love, as the Romans said, and Cupid, the messenger, who also fled from Typhon, jumped into the rapids and turned into two fishes, with their tails tied together with ribbons so that mother and son would not be swept apart.

Leo

The forest of Nemea was home to a rather ferocious man-eating lion, with a skin so thick that it was impervious to knives and spears; it often haunted the neighborhood and harmed the inhabitants and other animals, and was later strangled by the Hercules Hercules with his bare hands in a battle.

The Vase

A very pretty and beautiful boy, Ganymede, said by some to be a shepherd, and by others to be a prince of the kingdom of Troy, was later rewarded by Zeus, who enlisted him to pour wine for the gods on Mount Olympus.

The Chambermaid

Astraea, the goddess of justice in heaven, was originally sent to earth to rule and judge what was right and what was wrong, but later, disappointed by the ugliness of the earth, she fled back to heaven in despair.

Scorpion

Orion, the hunter, was a handsome and powerful man who bragged about being the best in the world at martial arts, and Juno was so displeased that she sent a poisonous scorpion to kill him.

The hunter

Orion was a famous hunter, but he was very cruel and boasted that no beast could defeat him, and the goddess Hela (Juno) was so unhappy that she sent a poisonous scorpion to kill Orion. So nowadays, when you look at the constellations, you will notice that when the constellation Scorpio rises, Orion is already hiding below the horizon, and conversely, when Orion appears in the sky, the Scorpion is also hiding, and so they chase each other in the sky for eternity. Another myth says that Orion is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Euryale, the queen of the Amazons. He fell in love with Melody, the princess of Kivo, and wanted to marry her, but Melody's father, Onobion, objected to this and demanded that Orion accomplish many difficult tasks first. When the god of goldsmiths learned of this, he sent his men to guide Orion to the residence of the sun god, so that he could restore his eyes to the rising sun and regain his sight; the twin sister of the sun god Apollo, Artemis (Artemis, Diana), known as Diana in Rome, is the god of the hunt in the sky and also the god of the moon, who was in love with Orion at first sight, and fell in love with him. Then one day Apollo saw Orion hunting in the distant sea, so Apollo made the sunlight shine brighter so that Diane could not see Orion clearly, and then lied to Diane that the black spot on the sea was a beast, so that Diane shot the black spot with an arrow, and then realized that she had shot her beloved with her own hands, and she was very sad and started to be uninterested in life, and since then the moon has become cold and lifeless. The moon has been cold and lifeless ever since.

The Bear

Legend has it that Zeus (Zeus, Jupiter) is the Almighty God, the Lord of the Gods, his wife Hera (Hera, known in Rome as Juno, Juno) was jealous of Zeus and the goddess of the sea, Callisto's love affair and will be Callisto turned into a big black bear.

The Lyre

The lyre of the constellation Lyra (Lary) was the harp carried by the musician Orpheus. Orpheus's father was Apollo, the god of the sun and music, and his mother was Calliope, the goddess of song, so it was only natural that Orpheus would become a musical genius in Greece. Legend has it that when he played the harp and sang, not only people but also animals in the mountains were mesmerized and the rocks became soft. Orpheus fell in love with Eurydice, a spring spirit, and the two were blessed by the gods to be married, but their happy married life didn't last long. One day Eurydice was walking in the meadow with her friends when her foot was suddenly bitten by a poisonous snake, and she died. Orpheus was so grief-stricken that he couldn't think of a way to bring Yoleday back to life, so he took the harp with him to the underworld. Cerberus, the fierce guard dog of the underworld, and the indifferent ferryman of the River Styx were moved by Orpheus's sad song, and let him, a living person, pass through. Orpheus came to Pluto, the king of the underworld, played the harp and sang out his heartfelt plea to the king to allow his wife to return to the earth (the realm of the living) again. Pluto refused coldly at first, but was later moved by his passion and granted his request. As a condition for the return of his wife, Purudra instructed Orpheus not to look back before leaving the underworld. Orpheus was overjoyed and led Iuridai to the earth. It was a long way to the bottom, and Orpheus grew worried. Why couldn't he hear Yoleday's footsteps? When he saw the light on the ground, he couldn't help but turn back, and in an instant, Yoleday only let out a soft cry and was pulled back to the underworld. Orpheus frantically chased after his wife, but this time even the ferryman of the River Styx would not let him cross. Orpheus wandered through the hills and fields, playing his harp in despair. Chasing a vision of Euridice, his lack of love for women earned him the resentment of the women of Thracia, who tortured him to death and dumped his body in the river on the night of the feast of the Wine God. Orpheus' harp, playing a sad tune alone, went down the river and soon drifted across the sea to the island of Lesbos, where it was picked up by the islanders and dedicated to the temple of Apollo, who, mourning the death of his beloved son, took the harp up to the heavens and placed it on a constellation.

The Bear

Arcas (Arcas) is the illegitimate son of Zeus and Callister, because Arcas was very young when his mother was not around, and did not know that his mother had long been turned into a bear by Juno, one day when Arcas met Callister when he was hunting, and he was about to draw his bow, and at the time of a thousand rounds of fire, he was seen by Zeus in time to stop him, and turned Arcas into a bear, so that he would be a bear, and he would have to be a bear. Zeus saw him and turned him into a bear so that he could be with Callister.

The Martial Immortal

The legendary Hercules, Hercules, is said to have been able to kill two mangled serpents with his hands when he was a boy and to have dug out the Straits of Gibraltar with his empty hands. Another legend from Rome, Hercules is half-human, is Jupiter (that is, Zeus la) and Alcmene Princess born son, Cupid has a very jealous wife Juno, sent assassins to kill is sleeping in the bed of the child Hercules, but the child is incredibly powerful, strangled these people, grew up to become the world's strongest man. Then, by the machinations of his hateful stepmother Juno, Hercules had to fulfill a contract in order to be set free, and that was to carry out twelve errands for King Eurystheus, including the killing of the Lion of Nemea and the many-headed monster Sidura, etc. He was later to win a beautiful maiden. One day the girl was kidnapped by Nessus, a centaur of the Kendaur tribe, but Hercules heard her cries and shot Nessus to death with an arrow, but before he died, Nessus gave the girl a bag of his own blood and tricked her into believing that if Hercules changed his mind, he could change his mind by touching the blood. He would change his mind. One day the maiden thought that Hercules was no longer interested in her, so she poured the bag of blood on him. The blood burned her skin and caused Hercules a lot of pain, so the maiden realized that she had done something wrong and hanged herself, and Hercules burned himself up in grief, and his father, Cupid, placed Hercules in the sky. Centaurs A race of centaur monsters lived in the Thessaly mountains of northern Greece. Centaurs had the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. Most of them ran around in the mountains and fields, and their behavior was rough and brutal. But Chiron (Chiron) exception, he was courteous, wise, proficient in music, medicine, and good hunting. Apollo, the god of the sun and music, and Ames, the goddess of the moon and hunting, are said to have taught him these talents. Kiryu lived in a cave, planting herbs to help the sick and raising children who had lost their parents. These children included such notable figures as Jason, who commanded the fleet of the Argo, Aesculapus, the famous Greek physician, and Agili, a warrior in the Trojan War. Aesculapus' father was Apollo and his mother was the Thessalian princess Coronis. Apollo loved Coronis with all his heart, but Coronis had another lover. Apollo learns of this from the raven, a bird of prey, and is so enraged that he takes his bow and arrow and shoots it from the sky at Coronis. Coronis confesses her guilt and on her deathbed reveals that she is pregnant with Apollo's child. Apollo, immediately backtracking on his attitude, quickly removes the fetus from Coronis' body and delivers it to Chiron, who is also hit by an arrow. Zeus, the god of heaven, lamented the death of Chiron, and in the posture of an archer with bow and arrow drawn, he added Chiron to the constellation, which became Sagittarius. It is said that the ancient Thessalians were good at horseback riding and hunting, thus giving rise to this myth. The other Sagittarius monsters were transformed into another constellation, Centaurus, which can be seen on the southern horizon on summer evenings. The Centauri Pegasus is shown holding a lance and stabbing a wolf to the left (in the form of Lupus the Jackal).

The Swan

Zeus, the supreme god of Greek mythology, always looked down from the sky to the mortal world. Although Zeus married the Queen of Heaven Hera (Hera) as his wife, see the beautiful women often still become their captors, Hera had to keep an eye on her husband's behavior in this regard. Zeus to find other women, in order to confuse Hera's surveillance, often disguised as a variety of animals. Leda, after Tyndareus, the king of Sparta in northern Greece, was known as the most beautiful woman in the world. Once Zeus saw Leda bathing in the sky, and was immediately charmed by her. God asked Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to help, and in the guise of a swan down to the mortal world. Aphrodite disguised as an eagle, chased Zeus into the swan, the swan fled to Rita for help, trembling swan pitiful, Rita will be held close to the side of the caressing, Zeus was able to fulfill his wish. Soon after, Rita gave birth to two large eggs. One of the eggs hatched out twins Castor and Pollux, the older brother Castor skilled in tactics, the younger brother Pollux is good at fighting. Castor and Pollux are very good at tactics, while Pollux is good at fighting. The two brothers are very close to each other and often go on adventures together. Castor was the son of Tyndareus and could not escape the fate of death, while Pollux could live forever because he was the son of Zeus. When Castor was killed by the same betrayal, Pollux, who survived, asked Zeus to let him die with Castor. The two are said to have become the bow "Gemini" (Gemini). Another egg hatched the sisters Helen and Clytemnestra. Helen was the daughter of Zeus and had goddess-like beauty, which naturally attracted many men to her as she grew up. Fearing that this would lead to disputes, the Spartan king asked Helen to choose a match, and Menelaus captured her heart. The peace between Menelaus and Helen didn't last long, because Prince Paris of Troy visited Sparta, fell in love with Helen at first sight, and brought her back to Troy. Enraged, Menelaus consulted Agamemnon, king of the Mycenae, who was married to Helen's sister, Clytemnestra. They recruited reinforcements from Himalayas to attack Troy. Legend has it that this is how the Trojan War began.

Nymphs

There was a country in Africa during the Himalayan era called Ethiopia, with a king named Cepheus and a queen named Cassiopeia. The queen was so beautiful and conceited that she once said while walking along the seashore, "I am more beautiful than Nereus in the sea! These words reached the ears of Poseidon, Nereus' father, who was the god of the sea, and Poseidon, in a rage, sent the sea monster Kaitos to attack the coast of Sopia and grabbed it, and the coastal area was suddenly turned into a swampy country of water. Sifos was y troubled and prayed to the gods for guidance, who told him that in order to appease Poseidon's anger, he had to sacrifice his daughter Andromeda. The king and queen are horrified, but Andromeda is very brave and willing to die for her country. Andromeda was then chained to a rock on the shore. Perseus, the prince of Argos, was passing by and was amazed at Andromeda's

appearance, so he asked, "How did such a beautiful person as you become like this? As Andromeda began to explain, black clouds suddenly appeared on the sea, a tsunami was heard, and a huge monster suddenly appeared. Andromeda was so shocked that she closed her eyes without realizing it. Cassius bravely drew his sword, and when the beast saw Cassius' figure reflected in the sea, it opened its mouth wide and prepared to swallow it in one gulp. Patheus lunges from behind the beast with his sword raised and flashes the head of the snake-haired monster, Medusa, in front of the beast's eyes. When the beast saw this, it immediately turned into a huge rock. Medusa is a monster that lives on the edge of the earth and turns anyone who sees her into a rock. Bertram was ready to go home after defeating Mithras, but he saved Andromeda on the way, married her, and returned to Greece in triumph. The characters and monsters in the above story are all gathered in the starry sky in the fall and winter. For example, near the north pole of the celestial sphere, you can see Cepheus and Cassiopeia side by side, representing the king and queen of Isobia, slightly south of Andromeda, and east of Andromeda there is the constellation of Perseus, and further south of the constellation of Cetus, which represents the sea monsters. Andromeda, Perseus to the east of Andromeda, and Cetus to the further south, representing sea monsters. To the west of Andromeda is Pegasus, said to represent a winged horse that was born from the blood that gushed out when Perseus cut the neck of Medusa.

Pegasus

One of the myths of Ethopia. When Perseus decapitated the demoness Medusa, the blood from Medusa's neck flowed out into the sea and mixed with seahorses, from which Perseus, a winged white Pegasus, leapt out. The Sea King was believed to be Pegasus' father. Legend has it that Athena caught Pegasus and took him to Helicon, a mountain belonging to Muses, where Pegasus' hoof kicked the mountain and the famous Hippocrene spring began to gush out, which is said to have been the source of inspiration for all the poets and writers of the time. Later Pegasus became a good friend of Bellerophon, a young warrior of the Greek port city of Corinth. With the help of Pegasus, Bellerophon accomplished the task of assassinating Chimera, a horrible monster that spat fire, and other great deeds, and at last Bellerophon became so haughty that he wanted to fly over Olympus on a Pegasus and join the gods. Zeus sent a bull-fly to sting Pegasus, causing Belleromin to fall from his horse to his death and leaving Pegasus behind to be raised in heaven. (Note: The Kingdom of Ethiopia is not present-day Ethiopia, but was a dynasty located on the north coast of Africa).

Capricorn

The ancient Greeks were indeed very good at thinking about animals, and they believed that a group of animals called "Satyrs" (i.e., the gods of the forests) lived in the mountains and fields, and had the feet and horns of goats and full beards, and Pan, the god of the sheep, was one of them. Pan likes to take naps and hates noisy noises, and when he is frightened by something, he is often at a loss for what to do. It is said that the word "panic" is derived from his name. Once, Pan had a chance encounter with Syrinx, a nymph who came down from the mountains. Syrinx is the attendant of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Syrinx is a beautiful woman, and Pan falls in love with her at first sight, but Syrinx runs away when she sees Pan's rough face. The Nymph of the Forest is faster than expected, and Pan, who runs on sheep's feet, is unable to catch up with her. As the two of them run and chase each other to the riverbank, Silenus, desperate for help, asks her father, the river god, for help. Pan thought he had finally grabbed Celine's arm, but what he held in his hand was a reed from the river, and Fairy Nymph had disappeared. After a moment of confusion, Pan snapped out of it and cut off several stems of reeds, twisting them together to make a flute. Pan named the flute Silinks and played it religiously. Today, this reed flute is also known as the Pan'sflute, a flute made by cutting the stems of reeds into long and short tubes and arranging them in the order of the musical scales, and is said to be the prototype of the pipe organ. Pan always carried this flute with him and played beautiful tunes. When the gods met by the Nile River, Pan played the reed flute as usual. The gods were terrified by the deadly roar of Typhon, a monster with a hundred heads, and fled in the guise of animals. Pan in a hurry, with the appearance of the unincarnated darted into the shallows of the river, who knew that the part of the body immersed in the water turned into a fish tail, and the part of the body exposed to the surface of the water to maintain the original appearance. Legend has it that Zeus transformed Pan into a constellation according to his later appearance. The origin of Capricorn (Capricrnus) can be traced back to a much older time, the 7th to 6th centuries BC, when the position of the sun at the winter solstice was within the constellation of Capricorn. In the northern hemisphere, the sun is at its lowest point in the south at the winter solstice and gradually rises toward the north after the solstice, which has been compared to a goat climbing a rock.

The Raven

The Raven was originally a beloved golden bird of Apollo, the sun god. It is said that Apollo and a princess named Coronis (Coronis) had a rather famous love affair, and it is rumored that they had a son, called Asclepius (Asclepius), which is now Serpentine; later Apollo gradually became less trusting of Coronis, so he sent his side of the golden bird to spy on him, because the golden bird lied and said that the princess had betrayed him, so that Apollo Because the golden bird lied and said the princess betrayed him, Apollo shot Colonis to death with an arrow, and when the sun god knew the truth, he turned the golden bird into black and made it unable to speak any more, and could only make the sound of "Ya! This is the origin of the Raven constellation. Another interesting legend is that one day Apollo told the golden bird to go to a stream to bring a cup of spring water. When the golden bird arrived at the stream, it inadvertently found a sweet-smelling fig, and since it was still green, the golden bird sat down and waited until the fig was ripe. In order to explain its unfaithfulness, the golden bird brought back a cup of Crater to Apollo, and also took out a Hydra from its claws, and lied that it had been attacked by the Hydra by the stream, and that was why it was delayed. Later, Apollo realized the truth and punished all three of them by putting them in the sky. Now the golden bird sits next to this cup of water, but it can never drink because the serpent is around it.

The Long Serpent

Sidura was a nine-headed sea monster that lived in the deep valley of Leruna. Legend has it that if one of its heads was cut off it would grow two more, but in the fight with Hercules, Hercules cut off its heads one by one and immediately sealed its wounds with fire-paint so that it would not be able to grow a new head, and then he finally killed it by pressing a big stone against the snake's body.

The Dragon

A dragon that never sleeps, guarding the golden apples of the Garden of Hesperus in the Atlas Mountains of Africa, was later killed by Hercules. Another myth concerns a battle between the Titans and Olympus, a new generation of Greek gods, in which a dragon attacked Athena, who captured the beast and threw it into the sky, where it died at the North Pole of the celestial sphere.

The Seraphim

Asclepius, who grasped the giant serpent with both hands, was the god of medicine, son of Apollo and Coronis. When Coronis was killed by the golden bird, the serpent-father tried to bring her back to life, but Hades (Pluto to the Romans), the god of hell, who was bursting at the seams, knew about it and thought that he had violated the laws of heaven, so he struck Asclepius down with a thunderbolt.

The Centaur

The wisest and most intelligent of the Kand?urs, known as Chiron, was said in Greek legend to have been the first to understand the constellations and to teach mankind how to observe them. Another story tells how Chiron was created with immortality attached to him, but once, when Hercules fought the many-headed serpent X

Dora, Chiron came to help, but was accidentally shot by Hercules's arrow, which was tainted with the serpent's venom, and although he did not die, he suffered great pain. Chiron later asked the gods to free him from this never-ending agony and offered to give his life in exchange for release. Prometheus, a Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, was tied to a rock and left to the eagles to greedily devour his reborn liver; Zeus finally agreed to let Kyron die, and Zeus wanted to place Kyron in the heavens in his honor, but had to place him in the southern sky because all the northern skies were already filled with constellations.

Peacock

Legend has it that Hera suspected that one of her husband's lovers had turned into a calf dagger cow, and sent Argus (Argos), a monster with only 100 eyes, to spy on her; her suspicion was correct, and it turned out that Zeus had turned his lover Io into a calf dagger cow in order to deceive Hera. Mance to assassinate the hundred-eyed monster, Hera later learned of the death of Yagus, then turned its eyes to the peacock's tail.

The Fairy Queen

Cassiopeia, Queen of the Kingdom of Isopia, was an extremely brutal person, and all the gods complained about her. Once Cassiopeia boasted that she was much more beautiful than the sea nymph Nereid, which reached Nereid's ears, and complained about her to her father, Poseidon, who was so furious that he sent a sea monster, Cetus, to harass the coast of Isopia. In order to save the country, Cepheus, Cassiopeia's husband, took the advice of a sorceress and offered Princess Andromeda as a sacrifice to the monster, who was later rescued by Friar Pethius.

The Immortals

In Greek mythology, Perseus was the son of Zeus and the half-human Deanna. The sorcerer warned Deanna's father that he would be killed by his own grandson in the future, so he set Perseus and Deanna adrift at sea. A fisherman rescues them and lets them live on his island. Polydectes, the king of the island, wants to find a chance to court Diane, so he dismisses Perseus and orders the young man to clean up the sorceresses of Gorgon. Atlas accidentally looked at Medusa's head and it turned into a mountain of stone, and from then on Atlas had to bear the weight of heaven on his shoulders.

The Phoenix

Legend has it that it is a bird with a beautiful voice, red and gold, and a very long life, about five hundred years, and when it comes to the end of its life, it will build a nest of shoots and spices, light it and jump into the flames and let itself burn out, and then a new phoenix will be born from the ashes.

Erechtheus was the son of Hephaestus (Vulcan), the god of blacksmiths, who invented a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a four-horse cart because of his foot disability, and was honored by Zeus with the title of "Erechtheus".

Hair

Ancient Egyptian queen Billie Nigel (Berenices) was always proud to have long and blonde hair, in order to pray for the safe return of her husband, she promised that as long as her husband was safe and sound, she would be willing to cut off her own hair and dedicate it to the gods. The back of the hair seat is the hair she later cut off.

The Shepherd

Legend has it that he was the son of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, who invented the plough for cultivation, and thus was later installed in the sky in recognition of his meritorious deeds and contributions to mankind. Another theory is that the constellation of the Shepherd was originally Arcturus, the shepherd of the sky, who was later instructed by Juno, the Queen of the Heavens, to bring his hounds to chase the big and small bears, and was therefore also known as the "Bear Keeper". We can find the herdsman and his hounds following the Great Bear and the Little Bear, chasing them in circles around the North Pole in the sky

Dolphins

One of the legends is that of the dolphins ridden by Poseidon, the king of the sea, or Neptune, in his quest for Amphitrite. Another legend says that Periander, King of the Corinth, sent Arion, the King of Music, to Italy for a musical performance, and when he was on his way back home, pirates robbed him of his gold and silver and tried to throw him into the sea, and Arion demanded to be allowed to play his last song, which he played so beautifully that a dolphin was drawn to him, and Arion hastened to jump on the dolphin's back.

The Whale

The legendary sea monster sent by Poseidon to harass the shores of Ethopia, black in color, with a unicorn's head and a trident shaped tail, is now named Cetus.

The Eagle

The Eagle is in charge of Zeus's Stormbringer, and is also the messenger who carries the beautiful boy Ganymede up to the heavenly city of Olympus to pour wine for Zeus and the gods.

Pony

Pony is west of the nose of Pegasus and east of Dolphin. There are many rumors about the origin of Pegasus, one of which is that Pegasus was created when King Neptune struck his trident, a symbol of sea power, against the earth during a contest between Neptune and Athena (known in Rome as Minerva); another legend says that Pegasus's younger brother, Celeris, was given to Garth by Hermes, one of the gods; and others say it was given to Boreas by Hela as Cyllarus.

The Southern Fish

The constellation of the Southern Fish was once thought to be Dagon, one of the gods. It was shaped in the sky as if it were drinking from a spring poured out of Aquarius, which is located just to the north of the constellation.

The Dove of Heaven

is associated with the Biblical legend that when Noah's Ark was adrift in the flood, an angel of peace with an olive leaf in its beak showed the way to land.