Card Trivia:Constellar Rasalhague

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  • This monster's name is based on Rasalhague, the brightest star in the Zodiac constellation of Ophiuchus.
    • This monster's Japanese name, "Hawwa", is based on the original Arabic reading of Rasalhauge (رأس الحواء ra's al-ḥawwā').
    • The constellation and the astrological symbol for Ophiuchus (⛎︎) appears in the background of this card's artwork.
      • In astrology, Ophiuchus has sometimes been used in sidereal astrology as a thirteenth sign in addition to the twelve signs of the tropical Zodiac constellations.
    • This monster is depicted with a staff entwined with the golden image of a serpent, referencing how Ophiuchus is also known as the "serpent-bearer" constellation.
      • The above-mentioned fact also references the legend of Asclepius, the god of medicine and healing in Greek mythology, who is depicted wielding a rod entwined with a single serpent. After he was smote for resurrecting souls of the dead, Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, placed his body among the stars as the constellation, Ophiuchus.