William Tyler Olcott,
Star Lore Of All Ages — Leo, the Lion
(1911)
“ When the 'Royal Star' crosses high on the meridian in the vernal evenings, the imagination is thrown back almost the whole course of the history of the Aryan race, and the rays of Regulus bring again the dreams of Babylon and Nineveh, of Greece and Rome, of India, and of the star- watching deserts of Arabia. ”
William Tyler Olcott,
Star Lore Of All Ages — Leo, the Lion
(1911)
“ Owing to the change wrought by the Precession of the Equinoxes, the sun in ancient times entered this constellation about a month earlier than it does now, at a time when the heat of summer was at its maximum. "The sun glows in the Lion," says Seneca, meaning that when the sun enters the sign of Leo at the summer solstice, the highest temperature of the year is experienced. The placing of the fiery and ferocious Lion, the king of beasts, in this part of the sky, symbolised the fact that the sun reigned supreme when it arrived in this constellation. ”
William Tyler Olcott,
Star Lore Of All Ages — Leo, the Lion
(1911)
“ The Lion is always seen with his eyes wide open, and full of fire. There is little doubt as to the existence of the Lion among the first Babylonian constellations, and throughout antiquity it has held a close relationship with the sun. It was "the Fiery Trigon" of the Arabs. The Egyptians worshipped it because the sun's entrance into the sign coincided with the inundation of the Nile, and some authorities think that the mysterious Sphinx syrnbolises Leo. The Mexicans also worshipped the Lion, and the chief Druid of Britain was styled "a Lion." ”
