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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forCatasterismTranslation into the stars. " The heroes of mythology, or even those of human society, continued to live in the sky in the form of brilliant stars. There Perseus again met Andromeda, and the Centaur Chiron, who is none other than Sagittarius, was on terms of good fellowship with the Dioscuri." To some extent the good or bad qualities of such heroes were then ascribed to the constellations. " For instance, the serpent, which shines near the northern pole, was the author of medical cures, because it was the animal sacred to Aesculapius " (Franz Cumont, O.R.). citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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