Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?

Well, that's not really a surprise when you consider all constellations are just stars connected by imaginary lines. The big dipper (Ursa Major) sure doesn't look like a bear in the night sky! :)



But Lupus is Latin for wolf (or wolf-like) and a wolf constellation it surely is. It even has some mythology surrounding it, as seen on wikipedia.



Other than that one, i know of no others.Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?Depends on how much imagination you have.



Most of the constellations (to me) look nothing like what they allegedly are/represent.



If I just got back from a Picasso exhibit, Leo could resemble a Lion, Cygnus and Aquilla could resemble some sort of brids in flight, and Ursa Major could look like some sort of a quadruped with a REALLY long tail. But even that is "stretching" it.



Lupus looking like a wolf? I don't think there's a big enough Picasso exhibit in the world to get me to appreacitate the abstractness of that constellation.Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?
People often get it backwards.



Most of the mythology around constellations was invented as a mnemonic device to find your way around the sky. After all, the earliest atlas we know about was done "only" 2500 years ago, well after most constellations got their (more-or-less) modern names.



Some constellations do look (even if remotely) like the object they supposedly represent. Orion, for example, has broad shoulders (Betelgeuse and Bellatrix), a belt (three stars in an obvious line), a knife hanging below the belt, etc. Originally, he was a soldier: oarion is the Greek word that gives us the English word "warrior". However, they had to make him a hunter, because it was much easier to explain why he was shielding himself from a Bull (Taurus) coming out of a river (Eridanus, formed by the water poured by, who else, Aquarius the water bearer).

Being a hunter, he was accompanied by dogs: Canis Major the big dog, Canis Minor the small dog and Canes Venatici the hunting dogs.



I know, Orion has nothing to do with Lupus. I only used him to show how the mythology gets created to remember the names of constellations in areas of the sky.



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Lupus is a more modern constellation. It dates from "only" 2000 years ago. Before that, it was part of Centaurus.



Motz and Nathanson do trace the story back to Greek mythology, where there is a story about Zeus disguising himself to visit the king Lycaon of Arcadia. Finding himself insulted by the king, Zeus banned him to the forest. When the king tried to cry out, he could only manage to howl, walking on all fours, his royal robes transforming into hair.



Ptolemy had marked the group of stars simply as "The Beast" (and the Turks had done the same on their maps); it is later, in Latin translations, that the word Lupus appeared.

To explain its shape and position, it is described as the body of a wolf, impaled on a stick and being carried back after the hunt (probably killed by Centaurus but that part is vague).Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?a werewolf?



so like,



a constellation that is a regular human ever night, except on full moons it goes thorugh a metamorphosis?



hmmmm...



none that i can think of.Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?
Lupus is a southern constellation. There is also Vulpecula, the fox, seen in the north.Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?None of the constellations look like what they're named after.



Does Orion really look like a hunter?



Does Cygnet really look like a swan?Is there a wolf or werewolf constellation?
Lupus means wolf, and no, very few constellaations look like what they are called.
lupus is the best you're going to do.