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Landscape zodiac

Okay kiddo, imagine that the whole Earth is your backyard and you can see everything from above like a big map. Now, imagine that someone drew a really big circle that goes all the way around the Earth. It's like a giant hula hoop! This circle is called the landscape zodiac.

Inside of this big circle, there are many other shapes and patterns that look like animals or objects. These shapes are called constellations. Can you imagine if your friends and family made a map of your backyard and wrote down all the different shapes they could see? That's kind of like what happened with the landscape zodiac.

The landscape zodiac is actually made up of a series of hills, rivers, and other natural features that form the shapes of the constellations. It's like a giant puzzle made by Mother Nature! People think that this landscape zodiac was made a really long time ago by ancient people who understood the stars and knew how to create something so beautiful and intricate.

So, the landscape zodiac is like a big circle that goes around the Earth, with lots of different patterns and shapes that look like animals or objects. And all of these shapes are made by the land itself! Cool, huh?
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