Leo

. One track from it (Jing! Jingeling!) has also been released as single.
. The new album of Schnappi, released in 2005, is entitled Schnappi's Winterfest.
. Schnappi has also released another track from this album as single: Ein Lama in Yokohama (2005).
. The song Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil is included in Schnappi und Seine Freunde" (Schnappi and his friends), the first album released by Schnappi.

In the symbolism of alchemy, Leo denoted the absorption or assimilation of one substance by another.
. Leo rules the heart and spine.
. Each astrological sign is assigned a part of the body, viewed as the seat of its power.
. The Egyptian pharaoh Nechepso, and his priest Petosiris, taught that at the creation of the world the Sun rose here near Denebola, and hence Leo was Domicilium Solis, the emblem of fire and heat, and the "House of the Sun".
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It is the domicile of the Sun.
. Leo is also one of the Fixed signs (along with Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius).
. In some cosmologies, Leo is associated with the classical element Fire, and thus called a Fire Sign (with Aries and Sagittarius).
. The Western astrological sign Leo of the tropical zodiac (July 24 – August 23) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu astrological sign of the sidereal zodiac (August 10 – September 15).
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In Greek mythology, it was identified as the Nemean Lion (and may have been a source of the tale) which was killed by Herakles during one of his twelve labours, and subsequently put into the sky.
. Lajard's Cultes de Mithra mentions the hieroglyph of Leo as among the symbols of Mithraic worship, but how their Lion agreed, if at all, with ours is not known.
. But the International Dictionary says that this symbol is a corruption of the initial letter of Λεων (Leon).
. Gaius Julius Hyginus's writing published in 1488 and Albumasar's in 1489 showing this latter member of extraordinary length, twisting between the hind legs and over the back, Hygnus's manuscript properly locating the star Denebola in the end. With the popularity of the Crazy Frog ringtone, it was only a matter of time before Schnappi was also covered this way, and in August 2005 Jamba! released Schnappi in a number of downloadable formats.

The astrological symbol has been supposed to portray the animal's mane, but it also might be the animal's tail. The song was released on a compilation album in Sweden. Kircher gave its title there as Πιμεντεκεων, Cubitus Nili. Swedish "humor metal" band Black Ingvars also recorded a cover version in heavy metal style with Rammstein-like vocals. The Egyptian stellar Lion, however, comprised only a part of ours, and in the earliest records some of its stars were shown as a knife, as they now are as a sickle. Alternative versions of the song - varying from simple remixes of the basic vocal track, to a full cover version by Belgian techno group Dynamite - were also at numbers seven and ten in Belgium, and at number two in the Netherlands. Distinct reference is made to Leo in an inscription of the walls of the Ramesseum at Thebes, which, like the Nile temples generally, was adorned with the animal's bristles, while on the planisphere of Dendera its figure is shown standing on an outstretched serpent. The song was released in the UK on Monday 3rd October 2005, but it only reached the bottom end of the UK Singles Chart top 40.

For the same reason the Sphinx is said to have been sculptured with Leo's body and the head of the adjacent Virgo, although Egyptologists maintain that this head represented one of the early kings, or the god Harmachis. The song reached number one in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden; it even reached the top 10 in Australia and New Zealand; a rare feat for non-English songs. Pliny wrote that the Egyptians worshipped the stars of Leo because the rise of their great river was coincident with the Sun's entrance among them. Somehow, despite being an unofficial cover, this version has made it onto the "official Schnappi website in English." Other translations by collaborations involving DJ Damien include a French version "Crocky le Petit Crocodile", and a forthcoming Japanese version "Togetogeshi, chisaii wani" (刺々しい、小さい鰐). The adoption of this animal's form for the zodiac sign has been attributed to the fact that when the Sun was among its stars in midsummer the lions of the desert left their accustomed haunts for the banks of the Nile, where they could find relief from the heat in the waters of the inundation. Bringing this around full circle, a bootleg translation into English was recorded and released on the Internet on the 20th February, 2005 by the Bronx artist DJ Damien (in conjunction with b0n3m4n, and featuring vocals by French Girl). In Euphratean astronomy it was additionally known as Gisbar-namru-sa-pan, variously translated, but by Bertin, as the Shining Disc which precedes Bel, "Bel" being our Ursa Major, or in some way intimately connected therewith. The huge commercial success of Schnappi may not have been possible without P2P networks...

The Persians called it Ser or Shir; the Turks, Artan; the Syrians, Aryo; the Jews, Arye; and the Babylonians, Aru — all meaning a lion. This phenomenon was widely taken as a counterexample to recent claims by representatives from major music labels that sharing music over the internet is harmful to the sales numbers of that music songs. But Manilius had it Jovis et Junonis Sidus (Star of Jove and Juno), as being under the guardianship of these deities, perhaps appropriately considering its regal character, especially that of its lucida. The single reached #1 on the German Pop-Charts by January 3, 2005. Bacchi Sidus (Star of Bacchus) was another of its titles, the god always being identified with this animal, and its shape the one often adopted by him in his numerous transformations, while a lion's skin was his frequent dress. So in December 2004, the song Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil was released on CD. Ovid wrote it as Herculeus Leo and Violentus Leo. In 2004 Schnappi became popular on the Internet and was downloaded often.

Early Hindu astronomers knew it as Asleha and as Sinha, the Tamil Simham but later, influenced by Greece and Rome, as Leya or Leyaya, from the word Leo, as the Romans commonly called it. The song, which first appeared in the Sendung mit der Maus show in 2001, was written by Iris Gruttmann and performed by her then four-year-old niece, Joy. Leo contains many bright galaxies, of which the twins (Spiral Galaxy M65, Spiral Galaxy M66) and (Spiral Galaxy M95, Spiral Galaxy M96) are the most famous. That song, which is sung in German, has a catchy tune and simple lyrics. [1]. In the cartoon in which he appeared, Schnappi is seen singing a song about his life in Egypt. Gliese 436, a faint star in Leo about 33 light years away from the Sun, is orbited by one of the smallest extrasolar planets ever found. Schnappi was a character in a popular animated German children's TV show called Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Show With The Mouse).

The star Wolf 359, one of the nearest stars to Earth's solar system (7.7 light-years), is in Leo. . A former asterism representing the tuft of the lion's tail has since become its own constellation, Coma Berenices. Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil is a little crocodile from a German cartoon for children that "performed" a song which reached #1 on the German charts in January 2005. These stars represent the head and the mane of the lion. Chart Positions. Regulus, η Leonis, and γ Leonis, together with the fainter stars ζ Leo (Adhafera), μ Leo (Ras Elased Borealis), and ε Leo (Ras Elased Australis), make up the asterism known as the Sickle.

Many other fainter stars have been named as well, such as δ Leo (Zosma), θ Leo (Chort), κ Leo (Al Minliar al Asad ), λ Leo (Alterf), and (ο Leo (Subra). This constellation contains many bright stars, such as Regulus (α Leonis), the lion's heart; Denebola (β Leonis); and γ¹ Leonis (Algieba). . Leo lies between dim Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east.

Leo (Latin for lion, symbol , Unicode ♌) is a constellation of the zodiac. ISBN 0393312364. Norton & Company. W.

Liungman, W. Dictionary of Symbols, by Carl G. ISBN 0486210790. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, by Richard Allen Hinckley, Dover.

(1/κ Leo) 4.47 Al Minliar al Asad. (78/ι Leo) 4.00 Tsze Tseang