Card Trivia:Constellar Rasalhague


 * "Hawwa" is based on the stars of "Ophiuchus". In medieval Islamic astronomy (Azophi's Uranometry, 10th century), the constellation was known as Al-Ḥawwaʾ "the snake-charmer". That's what the name of this monster came for. The symbol of this constelation looks like a letter U with a superimposed tilde (U̴ ) as seen at the back of this monster. It was a stylized representation of a man carrying a snake. Ophiuchus has sometimes been used in sidereal astrology as a thirteenth sign in addition to the twelve signs of the tropical Zodiac. Ophiuchus is one of thirteen constellations that cross the ecliptic. It has therefore been called the '13th sign of the zodiac'.