Serpens

Exactly.

So similar to our myths and wreck constellations episode on Serpens, we'll talk about some Greco-Roman myths about wolves, other wolf myths, and then we'll either wreck constellation or wax poetic to come up with something more cohesive or developed for Lupus.

But first, Kit, let's talk about what other cultures saw here in the night sky.

We'll start with the ancient Babylonian star lore, who associated this constellation with Uridimu, also known as, or described as, the mad, or howling, or gruesome dog slash hound.

Let's take a quick break and then add to this already very impressive canon by wreck constellationing or waxing poetic to create a new myth for the constellation of Lupus.

In this part of the episode, we would usually either wax poetic and come up with a new myth, or we'd write Constellation and try to revise existing myths to capture our minds, our hearts, our very souls.

But like our episode on Serpens, this week we could really go either way.

So where did you decide to go with this one, Jordan?

We make it into the hole.

The answer is Serpens.

Serpens.

Serpents.

Okay.

No, I don't want that.

A human-headed dog reminds me of the human-headed snake we talked about in Serpents.

No, no, no. Don't put a human head really on anything, I guess.

Um, and we love to see the IAU, you know, star lore, the canon get expanded.

And the

interesting thing is the snake is a separate constellation called Serpens, but that Serpens constellation is actually split up into two.

Half of it's on either side of Ophiuchus in the sky.

So yeah, you have the North Snake and the South Snake, but they're still just called Serpens.

So it's one constellation, but two parts of the sky for whatever reason.

Great.

Yeah, that's right.

And the snake itself is actually a separate constellation called Serpens, and it's actually split into two.

There's two halves of a constellation.

Yeah, I feel like I've heard that this was maybe sometimes two snakes and sometimes one snake.

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In this week's episode, we'll be getting silly and exploring the pop culture of the constellation Serpens.

In this episode, we share our favorite and least favorite occurrences of the month's constellation in pop culture.

And we define that pretty, pretty broadly.

Then we'll end by taking over the brand to Wish Upon a Star for what we wish existed.

This month, both anything with the word Serpens or that includes serpent or Serpens in the name is fair game.

But don't worry, we'll be discussing our favorite snakes in pop culture next week in a Creature Corner plus episode.

For now, though, let's start with our favorite Serpens, serpent, or Serpens.

And if you go to classical astrology, the serpent bear is called Ophiuchus, which is, uh, right in the center of the, uh, the Milky Way.

And around Ophiuchus, there's a constellation called Serpens.

Now, in ancient Egypt, the, the mythology about this symbol is that this was going to protect you from scorpion bites, snake bites, all these things.

So if you were bitten by something poisonous and you were going to die, um, what they would do is they would gaze...