After the evening hunt for shooting stars I want to come back to mythology.
There is a mix of stories, stuck up there in heaven, to be afraid. So let's do
some order.
Andromeda was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia who had done nothing wrong, but he had a mother, Queen Cassiopeia, who was a disaster: garrulous, vain, boasted of being more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymphs of the sea. (See image above Cassiopeia with whom we admire in the mirror, like the witch in Snow White). For the record, the constellation of Cassiopeia is seen low on the horizon toward the northeast, is that group of stars that have a form of double w, or M, (when set is turned). If you wait a little when he gets up you see her also Andromeda, three or four stars in a line that represent the girl lying down. In this constellation of course there is also the Andromeda Galaxy. Around September / October you can see better. But if someone hopes to find the shape of a queen or her daughter to become resigned, it takes a great imagination to see them ... however, in fact, the Greeks saw them there. But back to the myth.
Cassiopeia with her vanity causes the wrath of Poseidon (the sea god Neptune), which sends a horrible sea monster to ravage the coast of Ethiopia. This monster is the constellation of Cetus, also visible later in autumn and winter, in the Taurus and the right of Orion.
At this point enters the father of Andromeda, Cepheus (above Cassiopeia, in the direction of the Pole Star), who goes by the oracle of Ammon to know What can you do to stop 'I'm the monster. The answer is unequivocal: we must sacrifice his daughter to the monster. You say, but what crime has the daughter if I'm the mess caused the mother? I do not know me I asked myself, but the story is.
's so that Andromeda is chained to a rock because the monster take it, but twist, before the monster that Perseus is dazzled by her beauty. Perseus is on the left side of the double w Cassiopeia. Between the two constellations, for the record, there is one of my favorite celestial objects, the so-called double cluster, but let's not lose the thread. Then Perseus
ranging from parents to Andromeda, and proposes to fight against the sea monster in return if they leave the Andromeda in marriage. The great thing is the whole story is that Andromeda is tossed right and left as a package and no one ever asks what she thinks, but go right ahead.
Lights So the fierce battle between the monster and Perseus, who wins. Reluctantly the parents of Andromeda Andromeda and the promise becomes his bride. (See below under Perseus freeing Andromeda from the rock). Then the story goes, Cassiopeia tries to renege on his promise and take back her daughter Andromeda, but does not disdain the company of his savior, and together they go to Greece where she reigned happily churning out no fewer than 13 children!
I've been out of Pegasus, the winged horse of Perseus, that in heaven there is a large square on the right of Andromeda, but it seems it was not at all the horse of Perseus, as is often said, being the second Ovid, Perseus same winged sandals. However, we see that the sky was no place for him and we have made.
This whole story makes me think that when there was no TV and the street lamps at night, we worked a little more imagination and stories that are projected in the sky in his heart. And this is beautiful, I miss her.
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