Moon & Stars

Sleeping under the stars is a great experience. The constellation that I see the most  is the Plough. Some races call it the Bear or the Big Dipper. Scientists call it Ursa Major. the Head of the 'Plough is a star called alpha UMa. It is about 25 times larger than the sun and 86 light years away. None of that means very much to me. Naming things helps us to place them in context. Perhaps we feel a sense of ownership by naming something? Not many of us use a plough so what do the constellations mean to us now? Perhaps they are there to teach us something about the human brain. For instance there are 300 million connections of nerves between the right and left brain. The galaxies are groups of millions of star with connections between them. Perhaps the constellations represent patterns of nerve (or neuron) behaviour in our brains?