The top half of Camelopardalis, shown in the Uranographia of Johann Bode (1801). Also included is the
now-obsolete constellation of Rangifer
, the reindeer. In the Constellation Indus, the Indian is depicted holding spears or arrows as though hunting. It is not known whether he is supposed to
be a native of the East Indies, or possibly southern Africa or Madagascar (where the Dutch fleet stayed for several months on their way east perhaps the figure is symbolic, representing all the indigenous peoples the explorers encountered
on their various travels, from South America to the Indies. The constellations brightest stars are of third magnitude, but none are named. Indus, an Indian
holding a spear and arrows, as shown in the Uranographia of Johann Bode. Indus is as the hunter who hunts for power. The passive position of the male in the coitus depicted in this Atu suggests that it is the male who is working the office of the Scarlet Woman as he is the receiver of the power he hunts. This also suggests that the penis-head should be the absorber of the ejaculate as a variation of the instructions for Liber CCCVI.
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