Talk:Capricornus
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The Enki page says that Enki is the Sumerian god that originated the Capricorn. -- Error
see Talk:Constellations/Exoplanets in the constellations.
Planets?
To explane the "Planets" headline, see Talk:Constellation/Exoplanets in the constellations.
What are the traits believed to be that of a Capricorn person? All sign should of course state them, but surprisingly it's not common.
- Huh!?? I don't understand? Neither Assyro-Babylonian religion, otherwise almost extinct. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 14:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)]
Name Revisited
While commenting on the classical-linguistic shortcomings of an astronomy professor (specifically on Scorpio vs. Scorpius) with a Latin colleague, he mentioned that the original Latin would have been "Capricornu", which struck me as odd (as Latin has perhaps 2 words that end in -u, one of which is cornu) until it dawned on me to separate them into two words: capri cornu, or "the horn of the goat". Now, I feel that it would be significant to at least mention if not analyze this etymology in the article. 69.168.161.140 01:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- If that etymology is mentioned in a credible source, it could be mentioned. Otherwise it would be ]
Idiotic alternate view
The perfectly ahistorical alternate view moronically tries to depict a goat! Then why, in any imaginable supernatural being's name, isn't the name of Capricornus Capra? Capricornus is not a goat! It's a goat-fish from mythology, with the fore part from a goat and the hind part a fish. These alternate views doesn't belong to wikipedia - they seems to much like original research. Rursus 20:06, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hello there Rursus! Why screaming? Rursus 07:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ehhm yes, or at least a split personality, kind'a. However, it may also be seen as trollish hysteria, interspersed with coming-to-ones-senses. Said: Rursus 15:54, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Picture description error
One of the picture says "The brightest star of the picture is Jupiter". Even though it is a picture full of stars, the brightest one is a planet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.210.212.183 (talk) 14:57, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Capricornus.jpg to appear as POTD soon
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This illustration was included in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards illustrated by Sidney Hall.Illustration: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden
Removing dubious mythology material ("Pricus" and Chronos)
I'm removing material from this article, and the equivalent at sea goat. The text in question was added to Capricornus a couple years ago [1] and mostly copied over to sea goat when the article was made earlier this year. I suspect it to be unreliable for the following reasons:
- The sites linked don't look like particularly reliable sources, and don't cite any sources at all themselves. One of them [2] presents the story as a "lost legend" and a linked page [3] refers to the story being "discovered in later writings," but with no specifics or sources. An earlier version of the page [4] attributes it to a text called the "Scriptures of Delphi" [5]. I can find nothing that looks reliable about these scriptures, which also include a "Vampire Bible," and the current version of the Gods and Monsters page about them is more skeptical [6].
- I can't find any reference to a sea goat named "Pricus" on Google Books, except an encyclopedia of mythical creatures that appears quite recent [7]. The name Pricus does appear elsewhere, but only as a human name or as part of a taxonomic name (and some OCR errors).
- Nor can I find references to Chronos creating or fathering a sea goat.
- These studies of constellation myths discuss Capricorn in some detail but say nothing about "Pricus", Chronos (including variant spellings), time reversal, or a whole species of sea goats that became land goats [8] [9]
- The concept of "turning back time" seems very modern and unfitting to Greek mythology (though I admit this is largely my intuition and could be wrong, and I would welcome any corrections). I can't find a reference to Chronos having that specific power in myth, either.
I think it'd be wise to search through other Greek mythology-related pages, such as the topics mentioned here [10] for any other dubiously sourced material. And the same for vampire-related pages, possibly. 188.74.64.13 (talk) 20:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)