Cultural Significance
The distinctive pattern of Orion has been recognized in numerous world cultures, and many myths have been associated with it. It has also been used as a symbol in the modern world.
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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