ARIES (" The Ram ")

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ARIES (" The Ram ") , in astronomy, the first sign of the zodiac (q.v.), denoted by the sign T, in imitation of a ram's head. The name is probably to be associated with the fact that when the sun is in this part of the heavens (in

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

) sheep bring forth their

young

; this finds a parallel in Aquarius, when there is much rain. It is also a constellation, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.c.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.);

Ptolemy

PTOLEMY (
CLAUDIUS
PTOLEMAEUS)

catalogued eighteen stars, Tycho Brahe twenty-one, and Hevelius twenty-seven. According to a Greek myth, Nephele,

mother

MOTHER

of Phrixus and Helle, gave her son a ram with a golden fleece. To avoid the evil designs of Hera, their stepmother, Phrixus and Helle fled on the back of the ram, and reaching the sea, attempted to

cross

CROSS

. Helle fell from the ram and was drowned (hence the Hellespont); Phrixus, having arrived in Colchis and been kindly received by the king, Aeetes, sacrificed the ram to Zeus, to whom he also dedicated the fleece, which was afterwards carried away by Jason. Zeus placed the ram in the heavens as the constellation.

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