Bootes the Constellation
Bhutesa mandala – The Waggoner – Bubulcus – Simak al Ramih. Bootes.
Alpha – Arcturus – Nishthya – Kharga – bear guardian.
Beta – Nekkar, cattleman/driver – Bakkar – Alkalurops, shephard’s staff.
Gamma – Seginus – Theguius.
Epsilon – Izar – Pulcherrima – the wonderful star – Mirak.
Eta – Murphid, the isolated.
Mu – Alkalurupos.
Asterisms in Bootes
Nakshatra Svati – made up of Alpha Bootes also known as Kumkum varna. The 15th nakshatra. Deity – Pavana, the wind.
El Dhiba, the hyenas. Made up of Beta Gamma Delta and Mu of Bootes.
Stars at Sidereal Zodiac Degree
Merga
21°34’ Virgo
– 38 Bootes. This is the reaping hook in the hands of Bootes. Also the curve of the cane or the staff in the hermit figure. Bootes is Shiva in the Indian pantheon.
Seginus
23°48’ Virgo
– Gamma Bootes. Also known as Al Haris al Sama, the protector and the ploughman.
Mufrid
25°28’ Virgo
– Eta Bootes. Al Mufrid al Ramih, “the Solitary Star of the Lancer”.
Arcturus
0Li°22’ Libra
– Alpha Bootes. Nishthya the goddess in the Indian pantheon. Bau, or the bear guardian, or the coming one. The Arabic name for Bootes is Al Ramih. In the Indian pantheon, Siva Bhutesvara. Also in Nakshatra Swati.
Nekkar
0°Li23’ Libra
– Beta Bootes. The cattleman or the shepherd’s staff. Chinese knew this star as Chaou Yaou, or Teaou, words meaning “to beckon, excite, or move”.
Izar
4°14’ Libra
– Epsilon Bootes. Pulcherrima – the wonderful star. The belt or sash across the shoulder. Perizoma.
Princeps
9°17’ Libra
– Delta Bootes. The prince. To the Chinese, Tseih Kong, of the Seven Princes.
Alkalurops
9°18’ Libra
– Mu Bootes. Make up the shepherd’s staff. Also makes a smaller constellation of Al Dhibah – the female wolves.
Ceginus
11°14’ Libra
– Phi Bootes. The star on the right side of the head of Bootes.
Ursa Minor Constellation
Sisumāra mandala – Little bear – Cynosura – Al Dub al Asghar – Al Rakubah, the chariot.
Alpha – Polaris – Dhruva – the north star.
Beta – Kochab – Indra – Kokab – star.
Gamma – Pherkab – Dharma.
Delta – Yildun – Narayana.
Epsilon – Varuna.
Eta – Asvin.
Zeta – Mitra.
Polaris
4°43’ Gemini
Alpha Ursa Minor. Dhruva. The North Star. The Fountainhead or The True North.
Yildun
7°21’ Gemini
– Delta Ursa Minor – The cosmic dancer. Narayana or the great god in Vishnu.
Kochab
19°28’ Cancer
– Beta Ursa Minor. God Indra in Indian pantheon. King of the stars. Kochab means star in Babylonian, from Kakkab.
Pherkad
27°45’ Cancer
– Gamma Ursa Minor. The litte calf. Varuna, the god of waters in the Indian pantheon. One of the guardians of the North Pole. Consort of the Milky Way.
A coat of quotes and passing poetry
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"And as the seed waits eagerly watching for its flower and fruit.
Anxious its little soul looks out into the clear expanse
To see if hungry winds are abroad with their invisible array ;
So Man looks out in tree, and herb, and fish, and bird, and beast.
Collecting up the scattered portions of his immortal body.
Into the elemental forms of everything that grows.
He tries the sullen North wind, riding on its angry furrows,
The sultry South when the sun rises, and the angry East,
When the sun sets, and the clods harden, and the cattle stand,
Drooping, and the birds hide in their silent nests.
He stores his thoughts.
As in store-houses in his memory. He regulates the forms.
Of all beneath and all above, and in the gentle West Reposes where the sun's heat dwells.
He rises to the sun,
And to the planets of the night, and to the stars that gild.
The zodiacs, and the stars that sullen stand to North and South,
He touches the remotest pole, and in the centre weeps That Man should labour and sorrow, and learn and forget, and return.
To the dark valley whence he came, and begin his
labours anew."
"Artwork and Poetry | William Blake