Ursa Minor train, of light" (i.e. λύκος "wolf" vs. λύκ- "light"). Allen points to the Old Irish name of the constellation, "drag-blod" "fire trail", for comparison. Brown (1899) suggested a non-Greek origin of the name (a loan from an Assyrian "An‑nas-sur‑ra" "high-rising"). An alternative myth tells of two bears that saved Zeus from his murderous father Cronus by hiding him on Mount Ida. Later Zeus set them in the sky, but their tails grew long from being swung up into the sky by the god. Because Ursa Minor consists of seven stars, the Latin word for "north" ("i.e.", where Polaris points) is
Ursa Major (album) down the album's progress. The working title of the album was "The Hideous Strength", after a similarly named C.S. Lewis book. According to Jenkins, the album's name was subsequently changed to "Ursa Major" because "...We’ve been hibernating and now we’ve awakened and we are hungry for spring and we want to feed and we want to thrive." Another album, "Ursa Minor" (B-Sides compilation), was scheduled to follow "Ursa Major" but the idea was later scrapped in favor of a new studio album. "Ursa Major"'s cover is derived from "Uranographia", a 17th-century drawing by Johannes Hevelius. The view is mirrored following