The constellation of the Cetus is the fourth grade in the sky
for greatness and represents the famous monster that attached
ancient Ethiopia (you see Cefeo, Andromeda, Cassiopea, Perseo),
whose sovereign, Cassiopea and Cefeo, were forced to offer him
in sacrifice their daughter Andromeda,to appease its devastating
fury.
The monster was imagined with an appalling aspect but at the
same time almost funny : a head with enormous faucis always open,
the anterior legs of a terrestrial animal, a wrinkled body
covered of flakes and finally a tail of sea snake.
When chained Andromeda was to be reached by the monster and
everything for her it seemed lost,flighty Perseo entered in
scene and hammered his divine sword in the right shoulder
of the creature: the monster tried to bite him, but the hero
kept to piercing it in the whole rest of the body and to
the root of the tail. At the end the animal fell in water
exhausted and exhaled: he dragged its carcass to shore between
the shouts of joy of the population that skinned it to show
around its bones like trophies.
The brightest stars are Alpha and Beta, respectively call
from the Arabic Menkars, "nostrils", also if it is found near
the jaw more than of the nose and Deneb Kaitos, the "tail of
the whale." The most famous star is Mira, from the Latin
"amazing", since it is a bright varying star.