5. Next we can add the following 10 stars to Bootes:
Asellus sounds familiar and, indeed, we should have in memory the similar Ascellus Borealis and Ascellus Australis:
Allen: "Bayer called these [θ, ι, and κ] Asellus, - primus, secundus, and tertius respectively, - although without explanation; but the title is well known for each of the two stars in Cancer flanking Praesaepe [Beehive]. They mark the finger-tips of the upraised left hand just eastward from Alkaid [Benetnash] , the last star in the Greater Bear's tail. In China they were Tseen Tsang, the Heavenly Lance. ... All of these, with the 4th-magnitude λ on the lower part of the left arm, were Al Aulād al Dhi'bah, the Whelps of the Hyaenas, shown by β, γ, δ, and μ, and so given on the earliest Arabic maps and globes." The upraised left arms in Ga3-6--7 are probably signs for the Ascellus pair in Cancer, we can deduce. And we could say a little more - upraised fists are signs of 'nothing as yet counted' = very young. No fingers have yet been counted and the position is therefore still high up. "Ascellus borealis and Ascellus australis, the Northern and the Southern Ass Colt, were the Όνοι, or Asses, of Ptolemy and the Greeks; the Aselli, or Asini, of the Latins, distinguished by their positions as here given, even to the present day, and now popularly know as the Donkeys ..." Crabs have the excentric habit of walking sideways while asses are stubborn animals which strive to move backwards instead of going forward.
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