There can be no doubt as to the significance of the two parallels. In the first, dividing the sea, _i. e._ the Red Sea, is the correlative of smiting through _Rahab_, "the proud one," the name often applied to Egypt, as in Isa. xxx. 7: "For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still." In the second, "adorning the heavens" is the correlative of "forming the crooked serpent." The great constellation of the writhing dragon, emphatically a "crooked serpent," placed at the very crown of the heavens, is set for all the constellations of the sky. There are several references to _Rahab_, as "the dragon which is in the sea," all clearly referring to the kingdom of Egypt, personified as one of her own crocodiles lying-in-wait in her own river, the Nile, or transferred, by a figure of speech, to the Red Sea, which formed her eastern border. Thus in chapter li. Isaiah apostrophizes "the arm of the Lord." "Art Thou not It that cut Rahab in pieces, That pierced the dragon? Art Thou not It that dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?" And in Psalm lxxxix. we have-- "Thou rulest the raging of the sea; When the waves thereof arise Thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain, Thou hast scattered Thine enemies with Thy strong arm." So the prophet Ezekiel is directed-- "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say unto him, thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a dragon in the seas." In all these passages it is only in an indirect and secondary sense that we can see any constellational references in the various descriptions of "the dragon that is in the sea." It is the crocodile of Egypt that is intended; Egypt the great oppressor of Israel, and one of the great powers of evil, standing as a representative of them all. The serpent or dragon forms in the constellations also represented the powers of evil; especially the great enemy of God and man, "the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan." So there is some amount of appropriateness to the watery dragons of the sky--_Hydra_ and _Cetus_--in these descriptions of _Rahab_, the dragon of Egypt, without there being any direct reference. Thus it is said of the Egyptian "dragon in the seas," "I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the heaven;" and again, "I will cause all the fowls of the heaven to settle upon thee," just as _Corvus_, the Raven, is shown as having settled upon _Hydra_, the Water-snake, and is devouring its flesh. Again, Pharaoh, the Egyptian dragon, says, "My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself;" just as _Cetus_, the Sea-monster, is represented as pouring forth _Eridanus_, the river, from its mouth. [Illustration: ANDROMEDA AND CETUS.]