But this picture is not found in any of the _modern_ maps of the stars. There we find to‐day a woman’s wig! It appears that BERENICE, the wife of EUERGETES (PTOLEMY III.), king of Egypt in the third century B.C., when her husband once went on a dangerous expedition, vowed to consecrate her fine head of hair to Venus if he returned in safety. Her hair, which was hung up in the Temple of Venus, was subsequently stolen, and to comfort BERENICE, CONON, an astronomer of Alexandria (B.C. 283‐222), gave it out that Jupiter had taken it and made it a constellation! This is a good example of how the meaning of other constellations have been perverted (ignorantly or intentionally). In this case, as in others, the transition from ancient to more modern languages helped to hide the meaning. The Hebrew name was COMA (_desired_). But the Greeks had a word for hair, _Có‐me_. This again is transferred to the Latin _coma_, and thus “_Coma Berenicæ_” (_the hair of Berenice_) comes down to us to‐day as the name of this constellation, and gives us a woman’s wig instead of that Blessed One, “the Desire of all Nations.” In this case, however, we are able to give absolute proof that this is a perversion. The ancient Egyptian name for this constellation was _Shes‐nu, the desired son_! The Zodiac in the Temple of Denderah, in Egypt, going back at least 2,000 years B.C., has no trace of any hair, but it has the figure of a woman and child. In our illustration we have given a copy of this very ancient picture, and not the wig of hair! We have been permitted to trace it from a work on _Egyptian Scenery_ by the late eminent astronomer, Edward J. Cooper, of Markree Castle, co. Sligo, who visited that Temple in the year 1820 with an Italian artist, Signor Bossi. The original drawing from which our tracing is made (and enlarged) was drawn by Signor Bossi on the spot, before it was taken to Paris in 1821.(31) We thus have before us the exact representations of one of these star‐pictures at least 4,000 years old. Even Shakespeare understood the truth about this constellation picture, which has been so long covered by modern inventions. In his _Titus Andronicus_(32) he speaks of an arrow being shot up to heaven to the “_Good boy in Virgo’s lap._” The constellation itself is very remarkable. Others contain one or two stars of the first or second magnitude, and then a greater or less variety of lesser stars; but this is peculiar from having no one very bright star, but contains so many stars of the 4th and 5th magnitudes. It contains 43 stars altogether, ten being of the 4th magnitude, and the remainder of the 5th, 6th, etc. It was in all probability the constellation of _Coma_ in which “the Star of Bethlehem” appeared. There was a traditional prophecy, well‐known in the East, carefully preserved and handed down, that a new star would appear in this sign when He whom it foretold should be born.