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capricom is meant that this constellation is one of the oldest to have been identified, possibly the oldest, despite its dimness. Since it falls in an area of the sky known as the sea, it became considered a sea-goat (in the same sense as a sea-maiden). Depictions of a goat or goat-fish have been found on Babylonian tablets dating back three thousand years. The constellation may owe its antiquity to the fact that at that time, the northern hemisphere's Winter Solstice occurred while the sun was in Capricorn. The concern for the sun's rebirth might have rendered astronomical and astrological observation of this region of space very important.
For the same reason, the sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on earth where the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.
巨蟹座,當海格力斯迎戰萊爾納(Lerna)的九頭大蛇(長蛇座)時,巨蟹從沼澤竄出並偷偷攻擊海格力斯的腳,海格力斯一怒之下將其踩成碎片,海格力斯的死敵赫拉拾起巨蟹,升上天空。
另外γ星及δ星的意思為驢子,原來是當克羅諾斯等泰坦巨人迎戰宙斯時 ,酒神狄奧尼索斯、火神赫菲斯托斯和騎驢者加入戰團,由於泰坦巨人未曾聽過驢嘶,他們以為是怪物的叫聲而溜之大吉,於是狄奧尼索斯將驢子升上天空,以示紀念。