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None of the constellations were "put" in the sky. Long ago, before TV and electric lights, before books, people made up stories. Many of the stories were based on the myths and legends of ancient societies.

At night, storytellers would make up stories about the patterns that they saw in the night skies. All human beings see patterns, even when there aren't any, and in the darkness of the night there are MANY many stars about which you can imagine patterns.

Some of the "shapes" that people saw in the skies were heroes like Hercules or Orion, or animals like the Crab, the Lion and the Scorpion (Cancer and Leo and Scorpio), or gods.

Later on, navigators would imagine more practical constellations to help them see the stars that they used to steer by, constellations like Telescopium or Sextans or Octans.

And every primitive society has different stories, and different constellations, to describe the essentially random scattering of visible stars in the skies.

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