Each night the Great Bear’s seven principal stars pivot around the axis of the North Pole. This axis is now located near the star Polaris but six thousand years ago the star Dracos was the axis. Dracos, the Arthurian dragon, lies in between the two Bears so that the Bears appeared to dance around the pole as the earth rotated.
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 rulers in the constellation of the Bear and the Bear Star is the Pivot of Jade. Confucians call Polaris the Emperor and the Great Bear his Chariot.
Credit - bbc.co.uk
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