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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.
[syn: Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis] The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48: Dog Star \Dog Star`\ Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, [alpha] Canis Majoris. See Dog days.