"But in Winter, at 'night,' Paul looks at quite different pictures, at the other end of the room. The cardboard brim is slanted _down_, below the level of the 'plane of the ecliptic.' This is why the path of the Winter Signs crosses the sky higher up than the path of the Summer Signs. In both Winter and Summer you must imagine the cardboard brim to be as transparent as glass, for the 'plane of the equator' is in reality only imaginary." This next picture shows how Paul looked at the constellations at "night" in Winter. [Illustration] "Of course the north star and the stars for a considerable distance round the pole never set, and can be seen all night at any time of the year. It is only the ones that rise and set that go and come from our sight with the seasons. In reality they never leave us, for if it wasn't for the sunlight getting in our eyes by day, we could see the Summer night star-pictures in the Winter daytime, and the Winter night star people in the Summer daytime. We are just looking at opposite ends of our big room in the universe on Winter nights and Summer nights, that's all," said Uncle Henry. Uncle Henry took some folded papers from his pocket and spread them out on the table. "Here are four maps of the sky," he said, "which show the way it looks at different seasons at 9 o'clock in the evening--on January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st. You will see that the groups of stars around the pole are always in view, while the rest of the star people change with the seasons, but even the groups around the pole change their positions with the seasons. "You have all seen the _Swastika_. It has been known and used as an ornament for hundreds of years, all over the world--by the American Indians, the Chinese, the East Indians, and many others. I'll show you where I think all these widely separated people got the _Swastika_, and how it stands for the four seasons." Uncle Henry drew four little pictures showing the four positions in which the big dipper stands in the four different seasons, with its "pointer stars" always indicating the pole star. [Illustration: At the right of the pole star in Winter.] [Illustration: Above the pole star in Spring.] [Illustration: At the left of the pole star in Summer.] [Illustration: Below the pole star in Autumn.] Then he drew all four positions on one sheet of paper, like this: [Illustration] And when heavy lines were drawn along the handles of the dippers and across the pole star from bowl to bowl the _Swastika_ suddenly appeared like this: [Illustration] The Society of Star-Gazers was very enthusiastic about the origin of the _Swastika_, and found the dipper in its different positions on all of the four maps that Uncle Henry had put on the table. You can see the position of the dipper and all the other stars at January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and December 1st, at 9 o'clock in the evening, by looking at the four maps inside the covers of this book.