Bear, Great constellation

Ironically, the word Arctic comes from the ancient Greeks, who understood that the northernmost part of the earth lay under the stars of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Although unaware of the polar bear, they called this region Arktikos, which means the country of the great bear. ... 

The Big Dipper, an easy to see constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere, was known to the ancient Greeks as the Bear and the Wagon and to the Romans as Ursa Major (the Great Bear). 

The Great Bear, otherwise known as the Great Chariot, Arktos, the Big Dipper and Charlie s Wain is the most prominent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere. 

Ruzbehan of Shiraz, on turning his attention to the Great Bear, saw its seven stars as seven apertures through which God directly showed himself. Similarly, in Taoist tradition, the Ecclesia Spiritualis are the seven spiritual mlers in the constellation of the Bear and the Bear Star is... 

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