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Old 20th April 2005, 10:17 AM   #24
CFLarsen
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Originally posted by Seren
It's half way between the Solstices. If you look on the Celestial globe you will notice that between the 2 solstices the Milky pay passes through the constellation of "Musca" at it's Zenith.

I think Mosquito comes from Musca. And there is an association with Sugar Cane and Mosquitos.
You might want to learn a bit about how constellations are named before you create this theory of yours.

"Musca" is a fly, not mosquito. And the constellation Musca is not an ancient invention, but a rather new one:

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Musca is an easy constellation to find and it lies south of the Southern Cross. It was originally described by Johann Bayer in his 1603 star atlas as Apis the Bee. Later on, Edmond Halley called it Musca Apis, the Fly Bee, then Nicolas-Louis de Lacille named it Musca Australis, the Southern Fly to avoid it being confused with the fly on the back of Aries, the Ram. Now that the northern fly id no longer recognised as a constellation, the Southern Fly is known simply as Musca.
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Do you have any evidence that this constellation was called anything remotely like a mosquito by either the Aztecs or the Incas?

Because if you don't....you got a problem.
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