Aquarius was identified with the Sumerian god Ea, who was depicted with streams flowing from his hands. The constellations of Mesopotamia were borrowed by the ancient Greeks. In Greek mythology Aquarius was also associated with Ganymede, the cupbearer of the gods, and Deucalion, who, like Noah, survived a great flood in an ark.
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