The Generating Constellation of the Great Bear, the Cassiopeia and the butterfly: a Sardinian and
Ligurian cosmogony?

Enrico Calzolari, Lello Fadda, and Davide Gori

On the promontory of Caprione (Oscan etimology kaprum = the scapegoat) has been found five megalithic places, which are positioned according to Cassiopeia's mark: in the San Lorenzo's site the sun light produces, on a phallic stone, a gilded butterfly image. The Cassiopeia mark and the butterfly double-symbology are found in a terracotta figurine (5500 B.C.) found in Passo di Corvo (Southern Italy). It has been recovered on the island of Sardinia, in the Domus de Janas (eneolithic ipogeum) of Sas Concas, a comlpex cosmogony made up by some incisions chatacterized by a butterfly, the Ursa Major constellation, a probable comet, and many other
anthropomorphic designs.