History and Mythology
Cepheus was the King of Nigeria. He was married to Cassiopeia and was the father of Andromeda, both of whom are immortalized as modern day asterisms.
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“Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. We do not like that kind of immortality, but what is to be done about it?”
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“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
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