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North Star
The North Star or Pole Star – aka Polaris – is famous for holding nearly still in our sky while the entire northern sky moves around it. That's because it's located nearly at the north celestial pole, the point around which the entire northern sky turns. Polaris marks the way due north.
In Mandaean cosmology, the Pole Star is considered to be auspicious and is associated with the World of Light ("heaven").