Hanging in the sky to the west is an immense isosceles triangle, pointed like an arrow toward the western horizon, as if threatening to skewer Orion. Orion, in fear for his life, hides behind the mountains, with only Betelgeuse giving away his position. The venomously bright, downward-pointed tip of the triangle is Jupiter, and the other two vertices are Castor and Pollux, which are the two brightest stars in Gemini.
For most of human history, this great westward-pointing arrow would most likely have been seen as some sort of harbinger of doom. These days, our harbingers of doom are much more ridiculous, as can be seen in this graph, and this article.
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