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$Daughter of Cassiopeia who offended the gods. Poseidon threatened to destroy Ethiopia unless she sacrificed Andromeda to the sea-monster Cetus. Perseus saved and married her.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:24 PM$
$Bootes' dogs, Asterion and Chara chase Callisto and Arcus (The Big and Little Dippers) around the North pole.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:24 PM$
$The Great Dog is often cast as Orion's hunting dog. He began an endless chase with the uncatchable fox (Vulpecula) which continues in the sky today.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:24 PM$
$Queen of Ethiopia, she claimed she and Andromeda were prettier than the nymphs. Forced to sacrifice Andromeda. Perseus saved her. Poseidon tossed her in the sky where she hangs upside down half the night.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:25 PM$
$Chiron, king of the Centaurs, was friend Hercules and helped him to kill a boar. Hercules offended the centaurs and nicked him with a poison arrow. Zeus put him in the sky to avoid suffering.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:25 PM$
$A dragon with 100 heads placed by Herato guard the tree with golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon to get the apples as one of his labors.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:25 PM$
$Bastard son of Zeus. Jealous Hera made him go crazy and kill his family. As penance he had to complete 12 labors.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:25 PM$
$A monster with 7 heads. Hercules had to kill it. When 1 head was cut off 2 grew back. Hercules cut off the heads and cauterized the stumps to keep them from growing back.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:26 PM$
$Once part of Centaurus. The wolf was a sacrifice held out toward the altar (Ara).\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:26 PM$
$Great hunter who boasted he would kill all of the beast on earth. Gaia sent the scorpion who stung him in the heel. The enmity continues and both Scorpius and Orion are never in the sky at the same time.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:26 PM$
$The winged horse Pegasus was born after Perseus killed Medusa and her blood dripped into the ocean.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:26 PM$
$The hero who was exiled as a child because. King Dictys wanted his mother Danae and asked for horses as a wedding present. Perseus had none and was sent to get the head of Medusa instead.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:27 PM$
$The Firebird. When it got old it burst into flames and burned itself to death. Then it was reborn from the ashes. It would carry its nest to the titan Hyperion the sun of Gaia.\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:27 PM$
$The uncatchable fox. Vulpecula is chased through the night sky by the Great Dog (Canus Majoris).\\n\\n01/29/2015 9:27 PM$

Most of us have looked up and seen shapes in the clouds. People have been doing it for practically forever. The stars have shapes and pictures associated with them, and they are the same pictures for us today. For this project I have taken constellations, pictures with stories written with fire in the night sky and put them over the natural patterns created by soap bubbles.

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