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	Horn (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horn (Chinese constellation), a constellation in Chinese astronomy
		Horn, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Haelen
		Horne, a small historic county of the Holy Roman Empire associated with the village
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horn (361 words)

	Dragon Robes Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bat In Chinese art, the bat is a symbol of happiness and longevity, and the word for happiness, is pronounced the same way as the word for bat.
		Constellation (xing) One of the Twelve Symbols of Sovereignty, the constellation of three stars is a symbol of the cosmic universe.
		Rhinoceros horn A pair of rhinoceros horns are one of the Eight Precious Objects and symbolize happiness.
	www.sdmart.org /dragonrobes/glossary.html (2582 words)

	Archeo
		It was convenience to set a circumference of 365.25 degrees for astronomical calculation and prediction, because ancient astronomers used to believe that the sun moved among the stars (mansions) and returned to the same star (mansion) after 365.25 days, and the sun moved along the equator at constant speed.
		Unique to ancient Chinese culture was the calendar that maintained the equinoxes as the middle of the seasons, not the beginnings.
		The sun-year, the solar and lunar eclipses, the rising and sinking of Venus, and the movements of the stars, constellations, and the planets were observed with only the aid of a forked stick and were documented in their calendars.
	physics.gac.edu /~chuck/astro/archeo.html (5285 words)

	Facts about topic: (Chinese constellation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ancient Chinese skywatchers divided their night sky in a different way, but there are also similarities.
		The Chinese counterpart of the 12 western zodiac (A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes) constellations are the 28 "Xiu" (宿) or "mansions" (a literal translation).
		Gemini (A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_constellation.htm (328 words)

	Monoceros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Monoceros is a relatively new constellation, as opposed to many which date back as old as a few thousand years.
		As a unicorn, it resembles a horse with a long horn protruding from its forehead.
		The horn breaks off, cushioning the fall and leaving the unicorn unharmed to escape.
	starryskies.com /The_sky/constellations/monoceros.html (373 words)

	Legends
		The Chinese Unicorn is known as Kilin (pronounced chee-lin), which is a combination of both Ki, the male Unicorn, and Lin, the female Unicorn.
		Its horn was a good-luck charm against the scorpion, and eating its meat got rid of demons.
		With such a lucrative trade, false alicorn was rampant, made from bull horn, goat horn, or in some cases from the horns of exotic animals or from ordinary dog bones.
	www.unicorncollector.com /legends.htm (3081 words)

	Unicorns and the Bible
		Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
		He said that the horn of the unicorn was about a foot and a half long, and three colored, with the base being white, the middle fl, and the top red.
		The horn of the narwhal was a common substitute for that of the unicorn for those unscrupulous businessmen.
	www.geocities.com /drkenfaulkner/Unicorns.html (3194 words)

	Pharaonic Biblical Measures Cubit Chinese Lunar Mansions
		Chinese Lunar mansion is the same as the Heart sign for Pharaonic 3.
		Chinese 7 CHI "sieve" and 8 TOU "dipper".
		This is the constellation Lupus, which is Latvian LAPA "leaf", LAPAS "leaves", the Pharaonic hieroglyph being a leaf or sheaf of grain.
	www.lexiline.com /lexiline/lexi95.htm (1511 words)

	Constellation Note cards
		The major stars in each constellation were drawn from the 1st to 5th magnitude for accuracy and size.
		The Chinese called her She Sang Neu, the Frigid Maiden but in earlier times it was Shun Wei, the Serpent as part of the Red Bird.
		This constellation was the slayer of Orion since it rises as Orion sets in the sky.
	home.swbell.net /naomiben/connote.htm (455 words)

	Taurus Constellation
		The sun passes through this constellation from mid-May to late June; therefore its best observed in the early wintertime.
		A very attractive pair for small telescopes is chi Tau consisting of an white main sequence star of 5.37 mag and an 8th mag star of golden color.
		Without optical aid this cluster appears as a dusty group of a few stars (having the advantage of a clear, moonless night far away of all cities six or seven stars can even be seen by the naked eye).
	www.crystalinks.com /taurus2.html (608 words)

	Fantasy, Role Playing & Literacture - Mythology - Unicorn
		Now with his horn Asalam struck a barren rock, piercing it to a great depth, and drew forth a gushing spring of life.
		The Unicorn ("Ly" or "Lan") is represented with the body of an antelope, the feet of a horse and the tail of a buffalo.
		On the head of the mail unicorn there is a single horn, the extremity of which is covered with an excrescence of flesh.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Cafe/1614/Fantasy/Mytho/Mytho01.htm (4054 words)

	"The Fox Queen"--A Noire Fantasy screenplay by Kevin Andrew Murphy
		The Dragon King then gave her a conch shell horn, and instructed her to wind it when she was ready to repay her debt.
		Chinese posters are on the walls, and there are large puddles.
		Ping is done up like a Chinese doll, gold and jade pins in her hair, make-up on her face, elaborate robes, etc. She's also tied to a chair.
	www.sff.net /people/Kevin.A.Murphy/foxqueen.html (12827 words)

	AnimeInfo.org - Fushigi Yuugi Library - The Four Gods
		One is based off of an ancient Chinese creation myth about a goddess (Nu Kwa) who had, in the course of a divine war with rival deities damaged one of the "pillars" holding up the sky, causing water to pour from it onto the land and the horizon to become lopsided.
		The moon's orbit was used by the ancient Chinese to measure the passing of seasons, each season represented by a guardian in the sky.
		It was believed that the moon passed one of the constellations ("seishuku") every few days, and that it took the passing of all 28 constellations to complete a full orbit of the moon, and therefore of all the seasons.
	www.animeinfo.org /featured/fy/fylegend.html (1097 words)

	Anime-Myth.com v. With You
		In mythology of the Chinese dynasty, the key to sovereignty was metallurgy, according to Christie.
		In both Chinese and Japanese mythology, the dragon is associated with water.
		In Chinese myth, the dragon is a wise creature, and well-disposed towards humans.
	www.anime-myth.com /fourgods.html (430 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		The Celestial was the last of a constellation of Chinese-run country stores that used to exist in almost every river town between Memphis and New Orleans.
		Angus Chien would explain to anyone who asked that the Chinese symbol was a good thing, that it conveyed his wish for long life to all who entered.
		It was scotch-taped in the center of a constellation of white debutantes and beauty queens who’d once coursed across the local horizon for a few summers like soft, pleasant meteors, dancing to his music in smoky back-roads clubs before they married into old money and early obscurity.
	www.pw.org /mag/pageone_shearer.htm (3326 words)

	The Asia Rice Foundation: Rice Articles
		The minor valve has a small scale at the base, cleft in the middle, in two parts, with a small horn at the apex, smaller than in the other valve.
		The Chinese influence on rice cultivation can be seen in the spiketooth harrow extensively used in Malaysia and the Philippines.
		The harrow was brought to the Philippines by Chinese traders and settlers.
	www.asiarice.org /sections/whatsnew/othersd.html (3882 words)

	The GuardHouse: Britannica The Unicorn
		This horn is a fearsome weapon, particularly since the Unicorn is an extremely powerful and often aggressive animal...one which can run faster than any other beast inhabiting the plains and forests.
		As previously mentioned, the mere presence of the horn was considered strong protection against poison and, when worn as jewelry, it protected the wearer from evil.
		Its horn is considered to be a good-luck charm against the Scorpion and the eating of Unicorn meat was once believed to banish demons.
	www.novareinna.com /guard/unicorn.html (5423 words)

	Chinese Astronomy by S.Y. Ho
		Ancient Chinese determined seasons and the passage of time through the astronomical phenomena at early evening, mansions (also known as lunar lodges, lunar mansions, constellations, xiu) in the southern sky and the Big Dipper (the Plough).
		The order of mansions, zodiacal constellations, on the Chinese zodiac just only describes the order of appearances of mansions according to actual phenomena in southern sky.
		Ancient Chinese determined the equatorial coordinate of the sun through the observation of the star (mansion) in the southern sky at the midnight when the gnomon showed the year's longest day.
	www.chinapage.com /astronomy/syho.html (801 words)

	Constellation Taurus
		The sun passes through this constellation from mid-May to late June; therefore ist best observed in the early wintertime.
		In 1054 A.D. chinese observers recorded the appearance of a "new" star.
		Most famous in this constellation are certainly the Pleiades (also called "Seven Sisters"), M45.
	www.seds.org /Maps/Stars_en/Fig/taurus.html (604 words)

	Mah Jongg - Worldwide Web Site - Symbolism
		- in Chinese legend it is the phoenix is a bird that is said to appear only at the beginning of a reign of a benign Emperor, when Earth and Heaven are in harmony.
		The white tiger is a constellation of autumn and is therefore associated with the
		The unicorn is regarded as having powers to see into the future, a talent that was passed on to mortals who gazed into pools of water by the light of the unicorn's burning horn.
	www.mahjongg.com /circles.htm (580 words)

	Astrology on the Web: Eye of the Dragon
		Malvin is especially interested in Chinese astrology and so explores this lunation with reference to the Lunar Mansion, the Horn, the fixed star Spica and the Venus Jupiter conjunction in Virgo, a phenomenon that occurs but once every 12 years.
		The fact is that both signs and constellations are used in the esoteric side of astrology, and one of the features of esoteric astrology is to construct a chart that simply uses the arms of the constellational crosses with the planetary placements therein alongside the standard western horoscope that is adjusted to the seasons.
		We should be careful to note that constellations and signs are always used hand-in-hand in the more subjective side of astrology and the standard horoscope with its houses is the external backdrop through which the subjective horoscope works.
	www.astrologycom.com /fullmoonpisces1.html (1635 words)

	Ground of Heaven
		By the time of Ptolemy (2nd century CE) the signs were "off" by 8° against the backround of their corresponding constellation patterns, and a choice had to be made: whether to stay with the sky figures, or to count in twelve 30° segments from the gradually precessing Vernal Equinox.
		The "lucida" or determinant star of the constellation is Al Rischa, alpha Piscium (29 Aries) the star in the knot of the cord and the easternmost in the constellation.
		King Cepheus, a Phoenician constellation, the father of Andromeda, was also known as Baal Katsiu "Lord of the Promontory" and Baal Tsephon "Lord of the North" or "Lord of the North Wind".
	pw1.netcom.com /~ye-stars/tmacons.htm (8855 words)

	MSISSHINRYU.COM \| Isshinkai/Tomonokai
		The four quadrants housed what the ancient Chinese knew to be ‘mansions’ or ‘resting places’ in heaven for the sun and moon to rest as they made their revolutions.
		In Japan today these mansions are known as Moon “stations” or “lodges” and based on day or night position of the moon while the Chinese retain 28 lunar mansions which represents constellations ecliptic route through which the moon passes.
		The constellation Scorpio is not a Chinese constellation but the Chinese knew of it from ancient times from having traded with Greece in ancient times.
	www.msisshinryu.com /isshinkai/enbukai14.shtml (517 words)

	A History of the Crab Nebula
		It was the spectacular explosion of a supernova, the violent death of a star that may have been as much as 10 times more massive than our Sun.
		This "guest star," as the Chinese called it, was so bright that people saw it in the sky during the day for almost a month.
		In two separate accounts, Chinese astronomers described the star as having pointed rays in all four directions and a reddish-white color.
	www.kopernik.org /images/archive/crab.htm (721 words)

	ESA - Science - Home - 5 July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was the spectacular explosion of a supernova, the violent death of a star that may have been as much as ten times more massive than our Sun.
		Chinese astronomers saw and recorded the star's demise.
		Appearing in the sky above the southern horn of the constellation Taurus, this star was described by the Chinese as six times brighter than Venus and about as brilliant as the full Moon.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEM86625WVD_index_2.html (126 words)

	Fireworks show in 1054 was a noteworthy blast \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		It was during the cool, pre-dawn hours of July 4, 1054, that Chinese sky-watchers were captivated by what they saw in the constellation Taurus.
		Just before dawn, aim your scope in the direction of the star that defines the tip of the bull's easternmost horn, then raise it up about one degree.
		Interestingly, the planet Venus – to which the Chinese compared the "guest" star – now appears near the star Aldebaran, the "fiery red eye of the bull."
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040707/news_1c7star.html (406 words)

	Chiriko's Blurty -- Entries
		Gods of these four directions, whose Chinese origins are somewhat lost in obscurity, were also found on the walls in complementary configuration: the Black Tortoise of the North, the Azure Dragon of the East, and the White Tiger of the West.
		More likely, moon stations may have been among the first delineated constellations and were perhaps used as markers for seasonal change; they were subsequently incorporated into a more complex mathematical division of the "heavens" (months, principle and sectional terms, etc.).
		While Staal (1984) does an admirable job of relating Chinese constellation lore, his speculations and interpretations should be viewed cautiously, especially with regard to origin and meaning of Chinese characters.
	www.blurty.com /users/chiriko (3161 words)

	Hamlet's Mill
		They make one think of those "mist landscapes" of which Chinese painters are masters, which show here a rock, here a gable, there the tip of a tree, and leave the rest to imagination.
		When we speak of measures, it is always some form of Time that provides them, starting from two basic ones, the solar year and the octave, and going down from there in many periods and intervals, to actual weights and sizes.
		Kullervo does some more mischief, threshing the grain to mere chaff, ripping a boat asunder, feeding the cow and breaking its horn, heating the bath hut and burning it down--these are the usual feats of the "Strong Boy" (the "Starke Hans" of German tales, who with us became Paul Bunyan).
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/santillana.htm (12760 words)

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		The “horn of plenty,” or the cornucopia, is thus a symbol of abundance.
		The goat from which it came may be found by the curious among the constellations under the name of Capricorn.
		The “Tropic of Capricorn” of our school days is the southern limit of the swing of the sun on the path which marks the ecliptic, on which it inclines first its north and then its south pole towards our luminary.
	www.textfiles.com /magazines/STB/stb-1930-03.txt (1954 words)

	Myths, Legends and Lore
		These constellations are in order of their arrival on the horizon Pisces [Fishes], Aries [Ram], Taurus [Bull], Gemini [Twins], Cancer [Crab], Leo [Lion], Virgo [Maiden], Libra [Scales], Scorpio [Scorpion], Sagittarius [Archer Centaur], Capricornus [Goat], and Aquarius [Water Bearer].
		In reality, another constellation Ophiuchus [Serpent Handler] should also be included because the Zodiac is significant only because it contains the path the Sun and the planets travel, the Ecliptic plane [literally plane of the eclipses].
		However, the true beauty of this constellation is not her hair but the ornaments in her hair.
	www.frostydrew.org /observatory/courses/myths/booklet.htm (11936 words)

	Crab Nebula feature of February skies in Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michigan starwatchers who brave February's cold will be rewarded with a look at the Crab Nebula, located between the horns of the constellation Taurus, the Bull.
		The gaseous debris left over from a supernova or exploding star, the Crab Nebula was first noticed by Chinese astronomers on July 4, 1054, says astronomer Richard Teske.
		Although it is 6,300 light-years from us, the Crab Nebula can be seen with small amateur telescopes as a faint and fuzzy "star." Slightly larger telescopes reveal its apparent size on the sky to be the equal of the largest craters on the Moon.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/9596/Feb13_96/artcl17.htm (637 words)

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