Constellations In Ancient Civilizations

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Constellations were easily visible to ancient civilizations and thus they were able to make out very clearly constellations. They started naming these constellations as common practice because they believed in more than one deity that was usually connected to nature in some way/shape/form because they used this to explain natural events, including the constellations. In particular, many cultures named constellations based on different myths by mapping the shape of said constellation. To these less advanced civilizations, the stories told about constellations made sense and that’s why they were given names and distinctly mapped, when a certain constellation was at a certain point in the sky it meant something very important to different cultures.

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