The unloosened to the devouring waves by Dahut 

 Rainy th e R e( j, his Daughter, the Stars of water 

 " shook a fiery rain upon land and sea and that 

 the floods of heaven fell, from the wake of the 

 Great Galley (the Great Bear) to the roots of 

 the unseen tree that bears the silver Apples 

 (the Pleiades), and as far as the hidden Well- 

 springs (the Constellation of Capricorn) and The 

 Mansion of the White King (the Constellation 

 of Aquarius) — the White King being water 

 personified. 



Nearly all the ancient Greek and Asian 

 analogues for the last named, Aquarius, relate 

 to water. One of the few old-world exceptions 

 was that Roman Zodiac on which the constella- 

 tion figured as a peacock, symbol of Here 

 (Juno), because that in her month Gamelion 

 (part January, part February) the sun enters 

 this sign. The Greek Islanders of Ceos called 

 it Aristae us, in memory of a native Rain 

 Bringer. Another name was Cecrops, because 

 the Cicada or Field-cricket is nourished by 

 the dews and has its eggs hatched by the 

 vernal rains. It would be wearisome to 

 collate superfluous instances. Enough, now, 

 that the Arab, the Persian, the Syrian and 

 the Israelite, were at one with the Hellene 

 and the Anglo-Saxon in the designation of 

 the Water-Pourer, or an equivalent such as 



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