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“Why…” -Dick JusticeThe Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a CELESTIAL globe. It is the oldest extant statue of Atlas and the oldest known representation of the celestial firmament and the classical CONSTELLATIONS.The sculpture is at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, in Italy.The CELESTIAL globe has long been presumed to represent constellations mapped in earlier Hellenistic astrology, particularly in the work of Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC.Atlas labors under the weight because he had been sentenced by Zeus to hold up the sky. The sphere shows a depiction of the night sky as seen from outside the outermost of the celestial firmament, with low reliefs depicting 41 of the 48 classical Greek constellations distinguished by Ptolemy, including Aries the ram, Cygnus the swan and Hercules the hero.Yes Dick it’s true, we frolic inside a snow globe, only the water is on the outside.Don’t let them take your mind.An Inderdesding post for contemplated contemplating 😳😏Best to to Everyone!