I don’t understand what logic was used to make the constellations. I can’t seem to see constellations or how to identify them.
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We take the constellations today as an oddity or as something fairly insignificant but in ancient times they were far more important.
Without the wide spread advent of clocks and calendars people told time by the stars.
The positions of the constellations changes over the course of the year and is predictable.
The arrival of a constellation over the horizon at dusk signified the time to plant, another the time to harvest, the next one could mean winter or spring was about to arrive.
Assigning arbitrary animals and symbology to Constellations was merely an easy way to identify them and pass on that knowledge. When you don’t keep written records teaching your children to look for the constellation that kinda looks like a bear makes sense.
The oral traditions of those times would reference the star constellations in stories with associated lessons. It’s very possible that nomadic humans used the constellations as the primary time keeping method in pre-history, knowledge that we’ve mostly lost because it hasn’t been relevant to our society for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Today we just have nonsense like Astrology…
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