Ursa Minor The tradition of naming the northern constellations "bears" appears to be genuinely Greek, although Homer refers to just a single "bear". The original "bear" is thus Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor was admitted as second, or "Phoenician Bear" (Ursa Phoenicia, hence Φοινίκη, Phoenice) only later, according to Strabo (I.1.6, C3) due to a suggestion by Thales, who suggested it as a navigation aid to the Greeks, who had been navigating by Ursa Major. In classical antiquity, the celestial pole was somewhat closer to Beta Ursae Minoris than to Alpha Ursae Minoris, and the entire constellation was taken to indicate the
Ursa Minor (album) like the big dipper and the little dipper. It's not necessarily like the big songs on "Ursa Major". There's going to be some great songs on "Ursa Minor", too. It's just a matter of how they fit together in the collage. Certain songs share certain spots on the record. Records are kind of like a piece of art, you don't want to add too much blue, ebbing and flowing through. It seems like the two records are fitting together in a certain way. However, with work on "Ursa Minor" material not being complete, plans changed to releasing them as two