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Capricornus

Constellation date: 65438+February 22nd-65438+1October 19.

Legend of constellation:

There is a very strange constellation in the sky. Its upper body is like a sheep and its lower body is like a fish. This is the goat constellation, which is the incarnation of the Greek mountain god Pan.

Pan looks strange. His father is harms, the messenger of the kingdom of God, and his mother is Penelope, a fairy. When Penelope gave birth to Pan, she was almost scared to death by Pan because of his strange appearance and posture. Pan has two goat horns on his head, a face full of goat hair, and even his ears are covered with fluff. Although his upper body is human, his lower body has a pair of goat legs with small hooves. He is a half-man, half-sheep monster. Even so, Pan's mother loves him very much, and his father even wrapped the baby in a rabbit bag and took it to the Olympic Mountain. When the gods saw this son, they all liked it. Zeus, the father of the gods, even named Pan the patron saint of mountains and forests.

When Pan grew up, he was loyal to his duties, lived in a cave in a mountain forest and patrolled and played in the valley all day. But because of Pan's strange appearance, the fairies in the forest are far away from Pan, so Pan is very lonely. One day, Pan saw fairies chasing and playing, so he caught up with them with vigorous posture and danced in front of them. After seeing Pan's wonderful dancing, the fairies who had been stunned by Pan were deeply attracted. They sang and danced with Pan every day and played in the mountains.

Besides dancing, Pan likes playing the flute. Every moonlit night, he would play a beautiful and soft tune in front of the cave, and the sweet flute that echoed in the valley often attracted fairies to gather in front of the cave, listen to him and dance with him.

After a long time, Pan fell in love with fairies, but fairies always disliked his appearance and refused to fall in love with him. One day, Pan met the fairy he had admired for a long time by the stream. Pan took the opportunity to tell her. Lincks couldn't see anyone in the field, and the situation was wrong. So, while Pan was still talking about his love for the fairy, he ran away while he didn't know it. Pan looked back, but didn't see the right person, and immediately caught up.

Fairy Lincks was chased to the river, but was blocked by the raging river. Seeing that Pan was about to catch up, he couldn't help crying. The river god heard her cry sadly and helped her become a reed. When Pan arrived, he was holding it happily. When he looked down, he only had a reed in his hand and could not help sighing.

However, a wonderful sound suddenly came from his ears. It turned out to be the sound of the wind blowing reeds, so he made a reed flute from the stems of reeds, which could make a beautiful sound when played. Pan was even named after him. Since then, he has often played this flute at the banquet of the gods on the mountain and the Olympic Mountain.

One day, the gods held a grand rally on the Nile River in Egypt, and Pan performed for the gods at the scene, which was very lively. Suddenly, a half-man, half-snake monster appeared. It is very big, with a hundred heads, and its eyes and mouth are full of flames. It has a long black curly tongue, and its hair can almost touch the stars. Even Zeus, the god of gods, was afraid.

Without preparation, all the immortals were unprepared and fled in succession. Pan, who was playing, was scared out of her wits when she saw the monster approaching, and wanted to turn into a fish and escape from the Nile. However, due to excessive impact, his underwater part turned into the shape of a fish, while the water part turned into the shape of a sheep, and he hurried out. Zeus couldn't help laughing.

Later Zeus subdued the troll with the thunder hammer invented by Athena. One day, Zeus remembered the terrible banquet and the appearance of Pan when he escaped, so he left Pan's deformed appearance in the sky and turned it into a constellation. This is the origin of goat constellation.

Extended data

The origin of western constellations:

In 270 BC, the Greek poet Aratus wrote Things, in which 47 constellations were mentioned. According to the star regions recorded in Celestial Bodies, due to precession, the Antarctic in the period described in the book is not consistent with the current Antarctic, so it can be inferred that the starry sky recorded in the book is before 2000 BC;

At the same time, the blank area of the starry sky record indicates that the observer should be near 35 to 36 north latitude. So some people think that the practice of dividing the starry sky into constellations originated from Babylon and Sumer in Mesopotamia, and the constellations of Greece and Egypt may have been introduced from this area.

In the Book of Job, several constellations such as Bear and Orion are mentioned. In the12nd century BC, the land landmarks built in the era of Nebuchadnezzar I were engraved with designs of Sagittarius, Scorpio and Ophiuchus.

The ancient Greek poets Homer and hesiod also mentioned Ursa major, Orion and the Pleiades, while at the same time, Babylon recorded the zodiac in cuneiform.

In the second century, Ptolemy recorded 1022 stars in 48 constellations in his astronomical masterpiece, which is also the embryonic form of modern constellations. After that, many astronomers filled the Ptolemaic constellation with new constellations. Valle in 1603, Jahannes Hewelius in 1690, and Llakaj in 1752 have named the constellations in Nantian in two centuries.

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