Leo -Constellation- Traditional Cache
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Leo is an impressive and easy to recognize constellation, dominating the spring skies in the northern hemisphere and autumn skies in the southern hemisphere. Leo is the fifth zodiac constellation and the one most easily recognized: the crouching lion facing westward, with a distinctive head and mane marked by a sickle of stars which look like a backwards question mark. The brightest star is Regulus, which lies south of the pointer stars in the Big Dipper and to the northwest of Virgo. Leo's midnight culmination is around March 1.
The lion has been identified with the Sun since the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations. In the formative period of settled civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Sun's passage at midday through this area of the sky coincided with the midsummer solstice. Leo was therefore the constellation of high summer, which is manifestly the realm of the Sun.
In Roman mythology, Leo is identified with the Nemean lion that Hercules was required to skin a huge lion whose pelt was impervious to stone of metal. Having wrestled it with his bare hands and choked it to death, he used the beast's own claws to skin it. He then took the pelt as a cloak if invulnerable armor and donned the lion's head as a helmet.
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