Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for April 05, 2021

Same kind of imagination that thinks the glob of stars we call Cancer resembles a crab.

You do have that kind of imagination, Horace.

I imagine it was partly the boredom of spending night after night after night staring at sheep, and maybe some good drugs.

My imagination always produces chocolate cakes so realistic that I suffer from dental cAries

They used to use a few more stars.

It was also easier before the numbers were erased

– it’s harder to connect the “dots” now.

Perhaps ancient astronomers were also into experimenting with mushrooms

don’t we all…

Maybe originally it meant something else and then was retconned into acting the goat later on.

My imagination ends with the Big Dipper and Orion’s belt…..not the rest of him, just the belt!

It should have been called “Air-eez.”

It’s called magic mushrooms.

They’re also how John of Patmos came up with Revelations.

Daily toon=imagination. Grats

Wait till Leo comes out…

They.. had some good drugs and a big sky to look at

I suspect that after the hundredth time saying “no, not that one, look more to the right”, someone drew the star pattern in the sand to highlight where they were looking. Than a calendar maker decided to name the clusters so they could be referred to without being redrawn each time.

Back when staring at the night sky was your evening’s entertainment EVERY NIGHT FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

Would that there be those dotted lines in the sky so that constellations made sense.

In Aries defense, it wasn’t formally “canonized” as a constellation until around the 1920s, and up until then had been subject to various changes, depending on who was doing the recording, so no doubt it’s appearance varied slightly over those years.

Supposedly, the original constellation was seen as part of the ram’s horns.

it’s easy Horace… just wish upon a star….!

Well, that constellation shows part of the ram! Farther down from the horns, or even the legs, though! >B^D

The wimpy constellation looks like a golf club bent out of shape after a bad slice displaced a Molitor Ram.

Some of the more vague constellations were named because of their physical closeness in the sky to more obvious mythic constellation names or when they appear in the sky. Aries was originally called “The Farm Hand/Worker” because it appears at the beginning of the planting season. Wikipedia has more details under “Aries.”

“Do you take drugs, Horace?”

Sure you can Horace. But you must not be lazy about it.