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comes fro "hel-" = sun, plus arctus = north = Great Bear
constellation being anciently used as north indicator.
Just the other day, on first page of Caesar's Gallic Wars,
he designated north by "septentriones" the seven stars
that make up the Great Bear constellation, Ursa Major.
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