Kronos obliged and put Pricus into the stars. Capricorn, the Goat: in Greek Mythology, Capricorn is the God Pan, who was half man but goat from the waist down and had goat's horns for ears. The white dwarf has the same mass as the Sun and a surface temperature of 23,000 K. Zeta Capricorni has traditionally been called Yan or Marakk, but neither name has been formally approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But the highest expression of Capricorn is about spiritualising matter making the body sacred by willingly entering incarnation and enduring the limitations of being in a body without being ruled by the instincts. Some of the earliest pottery appeared in places like Hassuna, such as this bowl which dates to about 5,500 BCE: The ibexes here are arranged in a circle around a turning axis and represent an early example of the swastika. During the gods war with the Titans, Pan helped scare the Titans away by blowing his conch shell. Alpha2 Capricorni is the brighter of the two. Beta2 Capricorni is also a binary star. Their tales will live on for many more years. The central axis is an abstract representation of the World Tree or World Mountain, the connection between heaven and earth and the axis along which the soul travels after death. Myths of the greek Zodiac Born December 31, 1937, Christine Lagarde. You might know your horoscope or zodiac sign based on your date of birth but do you know the original Greek Mythology behind your sign? They gave great meaning to the cosmos by aligning each sign of the zodiac with a god or goddess. . However, observations with the ROSAT satellite in the early 1990s did not find any evidence of short-period variation. British Physicist. Later, he warned the gods that Typhon, a monster sent by Gaia to fight them, was approaching. It is the smallest constellation in the zodiac. The zodiac signs and many other astrological concepts have roots in Greek Mythology. In the myth, Pan eluded the monster himself by jumping into the river Nile and turning the lower part of his body into that of a fish. In Greece, the constellation of Capricorn was identified as Pricus, father of the sea-goats. Oannes was the first man Enki created and was one of the Abgal (or Apkallu in Akkadia) who brought civilisation to mankind.