Visitabis interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem. If the hero will not question that which constitutes his apparent essence, he is doomed. The search for the nymph is connected to an original problem of the definition of the pole star. Once a slender creature was hiding in Ursa Major's fur near Arcturus. Black dot in the northern sky.
Dragon coils around it, tempting the steadfast observer, offering doubtful fruits of knowledge.
The polar nymph has given to Cyliani the key to victory over this Dragon. Hermeticists consider it a question of the primal matter. Heavenly Dragon, the true north of the ecliptic. He is guarding the boreal heart of black expanses, as a spiral outlining the absent centre. The Second of Betelgeuse Orion is the most mysterious of all constellations.