I don’t understand how one night a guy looked at the stars and said that if you draw a line between certain stars you can see a lion. And also were they chosen at random?
In: Planetary Science
Today, the international constellations are used.
In the past, there was an Egyptian one, a Chinese one, an ancient Greek one, …
The constellations were made up from figures from the respective local mythology/legends.
So, yes, it was quite random and different for various parts of the world.
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