I just viewed this program on DW tv where the theory was that Stone Age priests somehow arranged the constellations to reperesent a map of Earth but the knowledge was lost among the years. The man who came up with this theory, Kai Helge Wirth, claims that the constellation of the Great Bear fits the outline of the Arctic Ocean. And surprisingly it kinda does. He also claims that the constellation of Iriadus (sp?) fits the river Aida (sp?) and that Scorpius fits the outline of Africa from the Canary Islands to Great Britain.
In the program, they give 'evidence' that humans could have once had the ability to 'program' the constellation because other animals use celestial bodies to navigate. These 'celestial bodies' they say are the sun and the moon. :roll: And according to them mallards or ducks use some constellations to navigate but they didn't say which ones.
Personally I find this theory to be very unrealistic but it is rather coincidental that the constellations sorta fit the outlines.
They have a short summary of the show at this link
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,336...09_1_A,00.html
I don't know if anyone has seen this program besides me......