There are a multitude of constellations in the sky, most created in the times of ancient Greece in order group and map the heavenly bodies of the night sky. For myself, only one heavenly body does it for me. That would be the princess in chains herself, the lovely Andromeda. She is my favorite due to her inclusion of the closest galaxy to our own, appropriately named, the Andromeda Galaxy. The muggles have soullessly catalogued (as they tend to do) this as M31 or NGC224. The M number refers to its place in a list created by the French muggle astronomer Charles Messier at the turn of the 17th century. The NGC number was given as muggle optics improved by a Danish-Irish Astronomer by the name of John Dreyer who created the New General Catalogue towards the end of the 18th century. …show more content…
The story goes, after her mother the Queen Cassiopeia had foolishly made it known that she thought her daughter was more beautiful than the gods. The female gods, in an jealous outrage, got Poseidon to sick the giant sea monster named Cetus on to the entire kingdom. Andromeda’s father found the only solution possible, which was to offer his daughter up as a sacrifice to the sea monster and thusly spare the kingdom. The day came when the monster would come to take the woman and her hero Perseus rode in on his flying horse with the head of Medusa. The eyes of medusa had the power to turn any creature to stone and it worked on Cetus, no doubt. It is interesting to note that the star named after her mother is off of her right knee. And her hero’s constellation Perseus is adjacent to her as well at the end of her feet.
But I would say to you the image of Andromeda was not one of a girl placed upon the rocks of Ethiopia to save