Origins
of the sign of the Aries
In the old ancient Egypt it arrived that the full moon takes place before
the constellation of the Aries.
The waters of the Nile reached some very high levels.
Then hippos and crocodiles invaded soil that was verdant before this
rise of waters.
In grazings remained dry, sheep had separated of sheep and aries.
While hoping for the shrinking of waters, the aries was confined in
a space restricts. He was the most often compelled to a lying position.
This position finds again in the old books. The aries is drawn there
in the position of rest. He doesn't have the attitude to charge as we
evoke him nowadays.
This
constellation announced the apparition of the Sirius star.
She was represented by a bitch of small size to the short paws and the
curly tail.
Small bitch in Latin tells itself "canicula ". It is of there
that comes the word heatwave.
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