8/13/2023 0 Comments Orion star chartThe hieroglyphic characters below read Oar. His name is given as Ha-ga-t, which means this is he who triumphs. He is so pictured in the ancient Denderah Zodiac, where we see a man coming forth pointing to the three bright stars (Rigel, Bellatrix, and Betelgeuse) as his. This picture is to show that the coming one is no mere animal, but a man: a mighty, triumphant, glorious prince. A son of Orion’s will be worth a multitude and will seem to dwell in every quarter of the city flying from door to door with the one word of morning greeting, he will enjoy the friendship of all. Orion will fashion alert minds and agile bodies, souls prompt to respond to duty’s call, and hearts which press on with unflagging energy in spite of every trial. It is Orion who leads the constellations as they speed over the full circuit of heaven. A single light marks each of his shining shoulders, and three aslant trace the downward line of his sword: but three mark Orion’s head, which is embedded in high heaven with his countenance remote. Near neighbor to the Twins, Orion may be seen stretching his arms over a vast expanse of sky and rising to the stars with no less huge a stride. Saturnus has been another title, but its connection here I cannot learn, although I hazard the guess that as this divinity was the sun-god of the Phoenicians, his name might naturally be used for Uruanna-Orion, the sun-god of the Akkadians. This, formerly depicted as a shield of rawhide, is now figured as a lion’s skin and it perhaps was this Hyriean story that gave the stellar Orion the astrological reputation, recorded by Thomas Hood, of being “the verie cutthrote of cattle “ at all events, it certainly gave rise to the tripatros and Tripater, applied to him. In astrology the constellation was Hyreides, Bayer’s Hyriades, from Ovid’s allusion to it as Hyriea proles, thus recalling the fabled origin from the bull’s hide still marked out in the sky. But Sir John Herschel observed from southern latitudes that the inverted view of the constellation well represents a human figure the stars that we imagine the shoulders appearing for the knees, Rigel forming the head, and Cursa of Eridanus, one of the shoulders. The head is marked by lambda, phi1, and phi², the stars alpha (Betelgeuse) and gamma (Bellatrix) pointing out the shoulders, beta (Rigel) and kappa (Saiph) the left foot and right knee. Orion, the Giant, Hunter and Warrior admired in all historic ages as the most strikingly brilliant of the stellar groups, lies partly within the Milky Way, extending on both sides of the celestial equator entirely south of the ecliptic, and so is visible from every part of the globe…In Egypt, as everywhere, Orion was of course prominent, especially so in the square zodiac of Denderah, as Horus in a boat surmounted by stars, followed by Sirius, shown as a cow, also in a boat and nearly three thousand years previously had been sculptured on the walls of the recently discovered step-temple of Sakkara, and in the great Ramesseum of Thebes about 3285 B.C. By the Kabalists it is associated with the Hebrew letter Aleph and the 1st Tarot Trump “The Juggler.” It was thought by the Romans to be very harmful to cattle and productive of storms. It is said to give a strong and dignified nature, self-confidence, inconstancy, arrogance, violence, impiety, prosperity in trade and particularly by voyages or abroad, but danger of treachery and poison. In consequence of his boast that he could slay any beast bred upon the earth the scorpion ( Scorpius) was brought forth and Orion died from its sting.Īccording to Ptolemy the bright stars with the exception of Betelgeuze and Bellatrix are like Jupiter and Saturn. He was blinded by Oenopion (the name means “wine-faced”) for having raped Merope, Oenopion’s daughter, but recovered his sight by exposing his eyes to the rising sun. The giant Orion was created out of an ox-hide by the Gods, Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury, at the request of Hyreus who had entertained them.
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