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Creating a constellation is like looking at a mountain and saying it looks like a dog, so when you take the path, head for the dog mountain. Same with stars. Patterns are given names and pictures so you can relate wher eyou are going to. Canis Major the big dog looks like a dog in the setting west, not in the east when it rises. In fact Anubis is the man with the dog head because the shift in rising looks like a stick man. The dog is the stick man laying on his right side, the man is the dog standing on his tail and hind leg.

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