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Leo
The Lion
OriginAncient
AbbreviationLeo
GenitiveLeonis
Pronunciation/ˈliːoʊ/ genitive /liːˈoʊnɪs/
LEE-oh
LocationCelestial Equator
Primary StarRegulus (α Leonis)
Right Ascention 10h 08m Declination +11° 58'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.291h (17.5m)
Leo represents the Nemean Lion, a beast with an impenetrable hide and razor sharp claws. Some say It lived in the hills of Nemea in Greece. It originally lived on the Moon and it descended to Earth as a shooting star. Killing this creature was the first of the 12 Labors of Hercules. The hero defeated the lion by wrestling it until he could lock his arms around it and then strangled it to death. He used the lion’s own claws, the only things sharp enough, to skin the beast. From that day forward Hercules wore the pelt as his armor. The king of gods placed this king of the beasts back into the sky from where it had originally come.
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Leo as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
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