In Egyptian mythology, Sopdet was the deification of Sothis, a star considered by almost all egyptologists to be Sirius. The name Sopdet means (she who's) sharp in Egyptian, a reference to the brightness of Sirius, which's the brightest star in the night sky. In art she was depicted as a woman with a five-pointed star upon her head. Just after Sirius appears in the July sky, the Nile River begins its annual flood, and so the ancient Egyptians connected the two. Consequently Sopdet was identifie… (More on Sopdet)