Bartsch interpreted it as the camel on which Rebecca rode into Canaan for her marriage to Isaac, as told in Chapter 24 of the book of Genesis. But Camelopardalis is a giraffe not a camel…
-Ian Ridpath, Star Tales
German astronomer Jakob Bartsch (1600-1633) drew a star map with this constellation in which he imagined the Bible story unfolding. But the fact it is found beside the mythological Æthiopian King Cepheus and his Queen Cassiopeia puts these stars back where they rightly belong, not in the Fertile Crescent but rather in Africa, perhaps along the Darb, the night sky full of them.
