Friday, April 3, 2015

Shape-shifting Divinities

A recent Wired.com article makes it amply clear that the constellations, as we know them, haven't been around forever.  The link is to a small collection of GIF animations showing how the forms of constellations change over large periods of time.

If the devatas are alive, one would expect them to move, to be animated. But the forms they change into aren't those of the living entities they are identified with.

Obviously, the constellation Leo isn't actually a lion, much less does it possess feline qualities.

Just in case you didn't already know.

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