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20 the water-snake. The Centaur (Noah) bearing a victim, an offering, or as some say  a flask of wine. And not far distant, Orion, (Nimrod), "the Giant." "the mighty hunter."

After that the celestial sphere had fallen into the hands of the Greeks, they applied to the several figures of men and animals, which they found depicted upon it, the stories of their own mythology, and changed several of their names accordingly; in the same manner as we know that after the time of Aratus, they substituted for ; putting a club in his hand: describing the animal's skin on his arm as that of the Nemean Lion, and the Dragon on whose head he treads as the guardian of the golden apples of the Hesperides.