Scylla Black

Blaise blaise_writer at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 18 15:56:10 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 3958

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Firebolt" <particle at u...> wrote:
 
> Alternatively, the constellation Canis Major used to have the name 
of a
> female dog...what was it again? Started with M. Er...ask Blaise, 
she's the
> one who told me.

Maera.  It wasn't the name of the constellation, it was the name of 
the dog which, according to one version of the myth, became the 
constellation Canis Major.  Another version has Canis Major as 
Orion's hunting dog, and I don't know its name.    

-Blaise.  





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