the myth behind the cancer constillation is a crab
The Crab represnts the sunsign Cancer.
The zodiac symbol for the cancer is the crab
Cancer the Crab
Cancer in Latin means crab, the direction South, heat of summer, and diesease of cancer.
It has to do with the stars that cancer are alignded and form the crab picture
it was a greek legend {coonstellations}
The Zodiac sign for Cancer appears as a Crab.
If you mean "why is the crab in the zodiac named Cancer", then Cancer is derived from the Latin word for crab. The word for crab in some Latin languages is quite similar to Cancer, such as "cangrejo" in Spanish. The ancient Greeks used the word karkinoma (" creeping ulcer" ) from karkinos the crab, for the disease of cancer. Later the Romans used their own word for crab, cancer, beside the borrowed form carcinoma.
The crab, after the crab nebula.
Cancer is represented by a crab.
Crab