Research Management Guidelines A guide in managing research initiatives in the national, regional, schools division, and school levels to further promote and strengthen the culture of research in basic education, improve its fund sourcing mechanisms, and put in place additional safeguards related to research dissemination, utilization, and advocacy ...
The reason why the star is called dog star is because the pictogram of the god Osiris depicts the star as his dog. A physical reason for the starâs attribution to the god would have been the fact that the heliacal rising of the Sirius marks the flooding of the Nile, which was attributed to the fertility of the land.
The ancient Greeks thought of the constellation Canis Major as a dog chasing Lepus, the hare. The star Sirius is the dogâs nose; the Greeks called it the âdog star.â. The âdog days,â I always thought, were those summer days so devastatingly hot that even dogs would lie around on the asphalt, panting.