in a winding course from Cancer toScorpio; this well agreeing with the fable of its immense marine prototype, theScandinavian Kraken. Conrad Gesner, the 16thcentury naturalist, gave anillustration of this in its apparently successful attack upon the ship Argo. p249Theconstellation cannot be seen in its entirety till Crater is on the meridian.Argelander enumerates in it 75 stars; Heis, 153.For anunknown period its winding course symbolized that of the moon; hence thelatter's nodes are called the Dragon's Head and Tail. When a comet was in thempoison was thought to be scattered by it over the world; but these fancifulideas are now associated with Draco.Al Sufimentioned an early Arab figure, Al Hail, the Horse,formed from stars some of which now belong to our Hydra, but more to Leo andSextans. The Water-serpent's gleaming bend.Brown's Aratos. , 2,orange.Alphard, Alfard, and Alpherd, Alphart in the AlfonsineTables and Pherd with Hyde, are from Al Fard al Shuja, the Solitary One in the Serpent, well describingits position in the sky. Caesius gave Alpharad, which onthe Reuter wall-map was Alphrad; and a stillmore changed title is Alphora. The Arabsalso knew as Al Fakaral Shuja, theBackbone of the Serpent; but Ulug Beg changed this to Al Unkal Shuja, theSerpent's Neck; and its shared the Suhel of other bright stars as Suhelal Fard, and Suhel al Sham, theSolitary, and the Northern, Suhail.Tycho firstcalled it Cor Hydrae, the Hydra's Heart, Riccioli's Kalb Elhavich and Kalbelaphard, which,with the alternative Collum Hydrae, the Hydra's Neck, iscurrent even now.In China itdetermined the 8th sieu, and was theprominent star of the Red Bird that combined the seven lunar divisions of thesouthern quarter of the heavens. Its longitude is said to have been ascertainedthere in the 19th century before our era, but the statement may bequestionable; as also it was observed passing the meridian at sunset on the dayof the vernal equinox during the time of the emperor Yao, about 2350 B.C. It culminateson the 26th of March. and were theChinese Tsing Kew, the Green Hill., , , , , and ,3d to 5th magnitudes, on the head, were Ulug Beg's Minal Azal, Belongingto the Uninhabited Spot. is a remarkabletriple, an 8thmagnitude 312 from a 3.8magnitude, the latter divided bySchiaparelli, in 1892, into two of nearly equal brightness0.2 apart, which probably form a rapid ternary system., a 4thmagnitude,was the Chinese Ping Sing, a Tranquil Star., a 5thmagnitude,and the stars of about the same brilliancy extending from it to , with Crateris,were Al Sufi's Al Sharasif, the Ribs.p250, 4.6,was Ulug Beg's Al Minharal Shuja, the Snake'sNose.1, 4.9,flushed white, and 2, lilac,with and the 5thmagnitude A, form thecurve in the neck, Ptolemy's ; but Kazwini knew them asUkdah, the Knot.http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Hydra*.htmlPor Hydra_constellation_map.png: Torsten Brongerderivative work: Kxx (talk) - Hydra_constellation_map.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10840093Os desenhos formados pelas estrelas - as constelacoes -sao como janelas que se abrem para a infinitude do universo e que possibilitam nossa mente a ir percebendo que existe mais, bem mais, entre o ceu e a terra... bem como percebendo que o caos, vagarosamente, vai se tornando Cosmos e sendo por nossa mente conscientizado. Quer dizer, nossa mente e