Every night I look at the stars but I still barely know anything about them. I know a few constellations, but I don’t even know anything about them.
Take the Big Dipper for instance. What’s its origin?
Apparently, it’s part of a larger constellation called Ursa Major (“the great bear”).
In Greek mythology, this constellation was named after Callisto, a goddess who was transformed into this bear after the god Zeus fathered a bastard child with her.
While, an Arabic myth looks at the four rectangular spaced stars of the Big Dipper as a coffin, with the three stars as three grieving followers.
Interesting.
You do this.