According to Al-Sufi, the Arabians called the second and third stars of the figure (α and ο Aquarii) _sad al-malik_ (_malk_ or _mulk_), "the Good Fortune of the king." They called the fourth and fifth stars (β and ξ Aquarii) with the twenty-eighth star of Capricornus (_c_) _sad al-sund_, "the Good Fortune of the Happy Events." "This is the 24th mansion of the moon." These stars rose at the time of year when the cold ends, and they set at the time the heat ends. Hence, Al-Sufi says, "when they rise the rains begin, and when they set the unhealthy winds cease, fertility abounds, and the dew falls." Hence probably the Arabic names. This, of course, applies to the climate of Persia and Arabia, and not to the British Isles. Al-Sufi says, "They call the 6th, 7th, and 8th stars _sad bula_, 'The Good Fortune which swallows up!' This is the 23rd mansion of the moon. They say that it is so called because that at the time of the Deluge it rose at the moment when God said, 'O earth! absorb the waters' (Koran, chap, xi., v. 46). They called the stars γ, π, ζ and η Aquarii _sad al-achbija_, 'the the Good Fortune of the tents'; this is the 25th mansion of the moon, and they give them this name because of these four stars, three form a triangle, the fourth [ζ] being in the middle." The three were considered to form a tent. The Arabians called the bright star Fomalhaut "in the mouth of the southern fish _al-dhifda al-auval_, 'the first Frog,' as the bright one on the southern point of the tail of Kîtus [Cetus] is called _al-dhifda al-tsani_ [β Ceti], 'the second Frog.'" Fomalhaut was also called _al-zhalim_, "the male ostrich." Al-Sufi says, "Some of the Arabians state that a ship is situated to the south of Aquarius." The stars in the Southern Fish (Piscis Australis) seem to be here referred to. The constellation Pisces, the Fishes, is the last of the "signs of the Zodiac." The Fishes appear on an ancient Greek obelisk described by Pococke. Among the Greeks this sign was consecrated to Venus; and in Egypt to Nepthys, wife of Typhon and goddess of the sea. Pisces is said to end the Zodiac as the Mediterranean Sea terminated Egypt. This idea was suggested by Schmidt, who also conjectured that the Ram (Aries) was placed at the beginning of the Zodiac because Thebes, a town sacred to Jupiter Ammon, was at the beginning of Egypt in ancient times; and he thought that the constellation Triangulum, the Triangle, represented the Nile Delta, Eridanus being the Nile.[427] The constellation was represented in ancient times by two fishes connected by a cord tied to their tails. The southern of these "fishes" lies south of the "Square of Pegasus," and the northern between Andromeda and Aries. According to Manilius, the origin of these fishes is as follows: Venus, seeing Typhon on the banks of the river Euphrates, cast herself with her son into the river and they were transformed into fishes!