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ANDROMEDA ANTLIA APUS AQUARIUS AQUILA ARA ARGO NAVIS ARIES AURIGA BOOTES CAELUM CAMELOPARDALIS CANCER CANIS MAJOR CANIS MINOR CANES VENATICI CAPRICORNUS CARINA
Urania's Mirror 1825
CASSIOPEIA CENTAURUS CEPHEUS CETUS CHAMAELEON CIRCINUS COLUMBA COMA BERENICES CORONA AUSTRALIS CORONA BOREALIS CORVUS CRATER CRUX CYGNUS DELPHINUS DORADO DRACO EQUULEUS ERIDANUS FORNAX GEMINI GRUS
Contents: 1. Clues to the meaning of this celestial feature 2. The fixed stars in this constellation 3. History_of_the_constellation
HERCULES HOROLOGIUM HYDRA HYDRUS INDUS LACERTA LEO LEO MINOR LEPUS LIBRA LUPUS LYNX LYRA MENSA MICROSCOPIUM MONOCEROS MUSCA NORMA OCTANS OPHIUCHUS ORION PAVO PEGASUS PERSEUS PHOENIX PICTOR PISCES PISCIS AUSTRINUS PUPPIS PYXIS RETICULUM SAGITTA SAGITTARIUS SCORPIUS SCULPTOR SCUTUM SERPENS SEXTANS TAURUS TELESCOPIUM TRIANGULUM TRIANGULUM AUSTRALIS TUCANA URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR VELA VIRGO VOLANS
Telium is the spore case of rust fungus that bears teliospores, teliospores also called teleutospore (spores of rust fungus). In myth Achilles wounded Telephus ('far-shining', or tele-, far-, + phusis, growth, nature as in -phyte) in the thigh with his lance or spear. The wound would not heal and Telephus asked the oracle of Delphi which responded in its usual mysterious way that 'he that wounded shall heal'. Telephus convinced Achilles to heal his wound in return for showing them the way to Troy, thus resolving the conflict [3]. Achilles healed him by scraping off the rust of his Pelian spear and wiping it onto the wound [as homeopathy; 'like with like']. The Paleoproterozoic Paleo era (2500 to 1600 mya) is known for "Rusting of earth, depletion of oceanic Fe in banded iron formations" [4]. Asklepios' son Telesphoros, Telesphoros was in charge of recovery. He was a boy whose face was always covered with a cowl and a Phrygian cap. He symbolized recovery from illness, as his name means 'bringing fulfillment' in Greek. Representations of him occur mainly in Anatolia and the area around the Danube [5]. [His father Asklepios is identified with Ophiuchus] 'Telum Telum' (tela , plural) was basically means a missile weapon that is thrown at a distance. Teliferous means bearing darts or missiles. The weasel (mustela tela ) is so named as if it were a long mouse (mus), for a dart (telum ) is so named due to its length" [Isidore The Etymologies. p.254.] "A missile (telum ) is so called after a Greek etymology, from the word telothen ("from afar"); it is anything that can be thrown a long distance. Metaphorically, a sword is also called a telum , as in this verse (Vergil, Aen. 9-747): But (you will not avoid) this telum that my right hand wields with force. Properly speaking, however, a telum is named for its length - just as we call a weasel mustela because it is longer than a mouse (mus)." [Isidore The Etymologies. p.363.] The mustelid telid ('long mouse'), or weasel family (includes the badger, mink, otter, and weasel) contains some of the world's most elongated, snake-like mammals. They are described as "tube-shaped animals" [6]; "they have no apparent shoulders or hips, so the general impression is of a slim, furry tube ending in an excitable, bottlebrush tail" [7]. Weasels are said to have evolved this body design in order to "weasel out" prey from holes or burrows. The Greek name for this animal is gale; a word that might be related to the name of the inventor of the telescope, Galileo Galilei. In Ovid's Metamorphosis Galanthis, or Galinthias, the nurse of Alkmene, is turned into a weasel (Greek gale). Paleolithic Paleo or 'Old Stone Age' is a term used to define the oldest period in the history of humankind. The Paleolithic lasted for some 2.5 million years, from the first stone tools until the end of the last glacial period 10,000 years ago. (Some members of the mustelid telid family are the only non-primates to use tools). Anne Wright 2008.
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