What word could be a hunter in Greek Mythology, a model of car, or a constellation?
"used by observers to navigate the night sky. Asterisms often refer to several stars within a constellation or may share stars with several constellations. Examples include the Pleiades and Hyades within the constellation Taurus and the False Cross split between the southern constellations Carina and Vela, or Venus' Mirror in the constellation of Orion. The word ""constellation"" comes from the Late Latin term , which can be translated as ""set of stars""; it came into use in English during the 14th century. The Ancient Greek word for constellation is ἄστρον. A more modern astronomical sense of the term ""constellation"" is"
"bodies have been named after elements of Greek mythology. The constellation of Scorpius represents the scorpion that attacked Hercules and the scorpions that frighted the horses when Phaëton was driving the sun-chariot; while Capricorn may represent Pan in a myth that tells of his escape from Typhon by jumping into the water while turning into an animal - the half in the water turned into a fish and the other half turned into a goat. 1108 Demeter, a main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth on May 31, 1929, is named after the Greek goddess of fruitful soil and agriculture. The"
"Hymn to Helios"", Helios is said to drive a golden chariot drawn by steeds (""HH"" 31.14–15); and Pindar speaks of Helios's ""fire-darting steeds"" (""Olympian Ode"" 7.71). Still later, the horses were given fire related names: Pyrois, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon. The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology was Sol. The Greek ἥλιος is the inherited word for the Sun, from Proto-Indo-European ""*"", which is cognate with Latin ""sol"", Sanskrit ""surya"", Old English ""swegl"", Old Norse sól, Welsh ""haul"", Avestan ""hvar"", etc. The name Helen is thought to share this etymology, and may express an early alternate personification of the sun"
"the story of Orion the Hunter and the Scorpius the Scorpion by the ancient Greeks. This ancient culture saw a very startling pattern of bright stars in the winter sky that, from their point of view, resembled a mighty hunter, which they named Orion. During the summer, they saw another startling pattern of bright stars that resembled a scorpion. They noticed that the constellations of Orion and the scorpion were positioned at opposite ends of the sky and were never seen in the sky simultaneously. As one constellation rose above the eastern horizon, the other was setting below the western"
"or spear-throwing, sometimes bearded / Athena Alkidemos (left, right or forward).<br> Bronzes: Heracles / Nike<br> Obverse - (5-6) Greek: ""ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ"" ""of king saviour Strato""<br> (7) Greek: ""ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ"" ""of king saviour and Just/Righteous Strato""<br> Reverse - (5) Pali: ""Maharajasa tratarasa Stratasa"" ""Great saviour king Strato"" <br> (6) Pali: ""Maharajasa tratarasa dhramikasa Stratasa"" ""Great saviour king Strato, follower of the dharma""<br> (7) Pali: ""Maharajasa tratarasa dhramikasa Stratasa"" ""Great saviour king Strato, follower of the dharma"" Silver: Middle-aged Strato diademed or helmeted / Athena Alkidemos left.<br> Bronzes: Apollo / Sacrificial tripod<br> Obverse - Greek: ""ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ"""
"Roman mythology, or other belief systems which may tie a particular animal to a particular deity. For example, the goddess Lakshmi of the Hindus has elephants, or an owl, or (a rare instance of a non-animal vehicle) the lotus blossom as her vehicle. The goddess Athena of ancient Greece also had an owl as her emblematic familiar, but the meanings invested in the owls by the two different belief systems are not the same, nor are the two goddesses themselves similar, despite their mutual identification with owls. Lakshmi is, among other things, primarily the goddess of wealth, and her owl"
"Cosmic Hunt The Cosmic Hunt is an old and widely distributed family of cognate myths. They are stories about a large animal that is pursued by hunters, is wounded, and is transformed into a constellation. Variants of the Cosmic Hunt are common in cultures of Northern Eurasia and the Americas, and include the story of Callisto in classical sources. The prey animal is either a bear or an ungulate, and the constellation it is transformed into is typically the four stars of the bowl in the Big Dipper asterism of Ursa Major. In some variants blood or grease may fall"
"verbal ones. To commemorate his diligence, the Muses asked Zeus to place him among the stars, which he did, transforming Krotos into the constellation Sagittarius. Various details of his stellar image were thought to represent one of his virtues: lower body of a horse for his skills of a horse rider; arrows for his keenness and swiftness as a hunter; a Satyr's tail for him being as delightful to the Muses as the Satyrs are to Dionysus. Krotos In Greek mythology, Krotos or Crotus (Ancient Greek: Κροτος) was the son of Pan and Eupheme. He dwelt on Mount Helicon and"
"Orion (mythology) In Greek mythology, Orion (; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or ; Latin: ""Orion"") was a giant huntsman whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. Ancient sources tell several different stories about Orion; there are two major versions of his birth and several versions of his death. The most important recorded episodes are his birth somewhere in Boeotia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and after he violated her, was blinded by her father, Oenopion, the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, his death by the bow of"
"of the sea. He can take the form of all animals of the zodiac. Some lists, cited by Hyginus, of the names of horses that pulled Helios' chariot, are as follows. Helios Helios (; ""Hēlios""; Latinized as ""Helius""; in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia (according to Hesiod), also known as Euryphaessa (in ""Homeric Hymn 31"") and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole"
"itself, as Robert Graves thought. When the sun is in the sign of Scorpio, the constellation Hercules rises. The Greeks referred to the constellation of Hercules as the Stag (""hind"" is another word for doe), the identification of the constellation with Hercules was made by the Romans. Ceryneian Hind In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian Hind ( ""Elaphos Kerynitis""), also called Cerynitis or the Golden Hind, was an enormous hind, that lived in Keryneia, Greece. It was sacred to Artemis, the chaste goddess of the hunt, animals, and unmarried women. It had golden antlers like a stag and hooves of bronze"
"Greek (Κῆτος, ""Kētos"") as well as Arabic (القيتوس, ""al Ḳaitoos"") and translates variously as a large fish, a whale, a shark, or a sea monster. In Greek mythology, the cetacean constellation, although not the star itself, represents the monster slain by Perseus in his rescue of the beautiful princess Andromeda. Many stars may be referred to in fictional works for their metaphorical or mythological associations, or else as bright points of light in the sky of Earth, but not as locations in space or the centers of planetary systems. The constellation Cetus lies close to the celestial equator and intersects"
"Centaurus Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. One of the largest constellations, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. In Greek mythology, Centaurus represents a centaur; a creature that is half human, half horse (another constellation named after a centaur is one from the zodiac: Sagittarius). Notable stars include Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Solar System, its neighbour in the sky Beta Centauri, and V766 Centauri, one of the largest stars yet discovered. The constellation also contains Omega Centauri,"
"in for Scorpio. The biblical Book of Job also makes reference to a number of constellations, including ""bier"", ""fool"" and ""heap"" (Job 9:9, 38:31-32), rendered as ""Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades"" by the KJV, but ""‘Ayish"" ""the bier"" actually corresponding to Ursa Major. The term ""Mazzaroth"" , translated as ""a garland of crowns"", is a ""hapax legomenon"" in Job 38:32, and it might refer to the zodiacal constellations. There is only limited information on ancient Greek constellations, with some fragmentary evidence being found in the ""Works and Days"" of the Greek poet Hesiod, who mentioned the ""heavenly bodies"". Greek astronomy essentially"
"Sag, meaning 'chief, head'. The name may thus be translated as the 'Forefather' or 'Chief Ancestor'. The figure is reminiscent of modern depictions of Sagittarius. In Greek mythology, Sagittarius is usually identified as a centaur: half human, half horse. However, perhaps due to the Greeks' adoption of the Sumerian constellation, some confusion surrounds the identity of the archer. Some identify Sagittarius as the centaur Chiron, the son of Philyra and Cronus, who was said to have changed himself into a horse to escape his jealous wife, Rhea, and tutor to Jason. As there are two centaurs in the sky, some"
"Pegasus (constellation) Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the 88 constellations recognised today. With an apparent magnitude varying between 2.37 and 2.45, the brightest star in Pegasus is the orange supergiant Epsilon Pegasi, also known as Enif, which marks the horse's muzzle. Alpha (Markab), Beta (Scheat), and Gamma (Algenib), together with Alpha Andromedae (Alpheratz, once also designated Delta Pegasi) form the large asterism known as the ""Square of Pegasus"". Twelve star systems"
"personification of the constellation of the same name; he was venerated as a hero, in the Greek sense, in the region of Boeotia; and there is one etiological passage which says that Orion was responsible for the present shape of the Strait of Sicily. Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving works of Greek literature, which probably date back to the 7th or 8th century BC, but which are the products of an oral tradition with origins several centuries earlier. In Homer's ""Iliad"" Orion is described as a constellation, and the star Sirius is mentioned as his dog. In the"
"identify Chiron with the other constellation, known as Centaurus. Or, as an alternative tradition holds, that Chiron devised the constellations Sagittarius and Centaurus to help guide the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. A competing mythological tradition, as espoused by Eratosthenes, identified the Archer not as a centaur but as the satyr Crotus, son of Pan, who Greeks credited with the invention of archery. According to myth, Crotus often went hunting on horseback and lived among the Muses, who requested that Zeus place him in the sky, where he is seen demonstrating archery. The arrow of this constellation"
"the charioteer is carrying. In Bayer's 1603 work ""Uranometria"", Capella marks the charioteer's back. The three ""Haedi"" had been identified as a separate constellation by Pliny the Elder and Manilius, and were called ""Capra"", ""Caper"", or ""Hircus"", all of which relate to its status as the ""goat star"". Ptolemy merged the Charioteer and the Goats in the 2nd century Almagest. In Greek mythology, the star represented the goat Amalthea that suckled Zeus. It was this goat whose horn, after accidentally being broken off by Zeus, was transformed into the Cornucopia, or ""horn of plenty"", which would be filled with whatever"
"Helios, in an attempt to drive the chariot of the sun, managed to set the earth on fire. This story led to the archaic meaning of a ""phaeton"" as one who drives a chariot or coach, especially at a reckless or dangerous speed. Plato, in his ""Chariot Allegory"", depicted a chariot drawn by two horses, one well behaved and the other troublesome, representing opposite impulses of human nature; the task of the charioteer, representing reason, was to stop the horses from going different ways and to guide them towards enlightenment. The Greek word for chariot, ἅρμα, ""hárma"", is also used"
"(β) and Dubhe (α). This makes it useful in celestial navigation. The constellation of Ursa Major (Latin: Greater Bear) has been seen as a bear, a wagon, or a ladle. The ""bear"" tradition is Greek, but apparently the name ""bear"" has parallels in Siberian or North American traditions. The name ""Bear"" is Homeric, and apparently native to Greece, while the ""Wain"" tradition is Mesopotamian. Book XVIII of Homer's ""Iliad"" mentions it as ""the Bear, which men also call the Wain"". In Latin, these seven stars were known as the ""Seven Oxen"" (', from '). The classical mythographer identified the ""Bear"""
"depending on the given culture. For example, Pan is a deity in Greek mythology that rules over and symbolizes the untamed wild, being worshiped by hunters, fishermen, and shepherds in particular. The mischievous yet cheerful character is a Satyr who has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat while otherwise being essentially human in appearance, with stories of his encounters with different gods, humans, and others being retold for centuries on after the days of early Greece by groups such as the Delphian Society. Specifically, the human-animal hybrid has appeared in acclaimed works of art by figures such as"
"Aquila (constellation) Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Its brightest star, Altair, is one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. The constellation is best seen in the northern summer, as it is located along the Milky Way. Because of this location, many clusters and nebulae are found within its borders, but they are dim and galaxies are few. Aquila was one of the 48 constellations described by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy. It had been earlier mentioned by Eudoxus in the"
"mythology and astrology before the scientific revolution, the red star, like the planet Mars that derives its name from a Roman war god, has been closely associated with the martial archetype of conquest for millennia, and by extension, the motif of death and rebirth. Other cultures have produced different myths. Stephen R. Wilk has proposed the constellation of Orion could have represented the Greek mythological figure Pelops, who had an artificial shoulder of ivory made for him, with Betelgeuse as the shoulder, its color reminiscent of the reddish yellow sheen of ivory. In the Americas, Betelgeuse signifies a severed limb"
"from the wounded animal, in an Iroquois version the blood causes leaves to change color in autumn. Sometimes the hunters are also placed in the firmament, represented by the stars of the Big Dipper's handle. The original prototype of the myth must have been invented at least 15,000 years ago for it to have diffused across the Bering land bridge. Cosmic Hunt The Cosmic Hunt is an old and widely distributed family of cognate myths. They are stories about a large animal that is pursued by hunters, is wounded, and is transformed into a constellation. Variants of the Cosmic Hunt"
"variety of stag, bull, ram and goat gods. Horned gods are not universal however, and in some cultures bear gods, like Arktos might take the role, or even the more anthropomorphic deities who lead the Wild Hunt. Such figures are also often referred to as 'Lord of the forest'* or 'Lord of the mountain'. ""Potnia Theron"", a phrase used by Homer meaning ""Mistress of the Animals"" is used for early Greek depictions of goddesses, usually Artemis, holding animals. The Greek god shown as ""Master of Animals"" is usually Apollo, the god of hunting. Shiva has the epithet Pashupati meaning the"
"has been named ""3200 Phaethon"" after the mythological Phaethon. The French form of the name ""Phaethon"" is ""Phaéton"". This form of the word is applied to a kind of carriage. An order, family, and genus of birds bear the name Phaethon in their taxonomic nomenclature, the tropicbirds. Phaethon Phaethon (; , ""Phaéthōn"", ) was the Ancient Greek name for the planet Jupiter, the motions and cycles of which were personified in poetry and myth. Phaethon was said to be the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios. Alternatively, less common genealogies make him a son of Clymenus"
"of the charioteer who must control a soul divided by ""genesis"" and ""apogenesis"". Greek and Roman art depicts deities driving two-yoke chariots drawn by a number of animals. A ""biga"" of oxen was driven by Hecate, the chthonic aspect of the Triple Goddess in complement with the ""horned"" or crescent-crowned Diana and Luna, to whom the ""biga"" was sacred. Triptolemus is depicted on Roman coins as driving a serpent-drawn biga as he sows grain in response to Demeter's appeal to him to teach mankind the skill of agriculture, such as on an Alexandrine drachma, see . In his chapter on"
"described as ""late-setting"" or ""slow to set"", translated as the ""Plowman"". Exactly whom Boötes is supposed to represent in Greek mythology is not clear. According to one version, he was a son of Demeter, Philomenus, twin brother of Plutus, a plowman who drove the oxen in the constellation Ursa Major. This is corroborated by the constellation's name, which itself means ""ox-driver"" or ""herdsman."" The ancient Greeks saw the asterism now called the ""Big Dipper"" or ""Plough"" as a cart with oxen. This influenced the name's etymology, derived from the Greek for ""noisy"" or ""ox-driver"". Another myth associated with Boötes relates"
"Sword are terms from Finnish mythology. The Seri people of northwestern Mexico call the three belt stars ""Hapj"" (a name denoting a hunter) which consists of three stars: ""Hap"" (mule deer), ""Haamoja"" (pronghorn), and ""Mojet"" (bighorn sheep). ""Hap"" is in the middle and has been shot by the hunter; its blood has dripped onto Tiburón Island. Orion's Belt Orion's Belt or the Belt of Orion, also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters, is an asterism in the constellation Orion. It consists of the three bright stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Looking for Orion's Belt in the night sky"
"Auriga stood for a goat-herd or shepherd. It was formed from most of the stars of the modern constellation; all of the bright stars were included except for Elnath, traditionally assigned to both Taurus and Auriga. Later, Bedouin astronomers created constellations that were groups of animals, where each star represented one animal. The stars of Auriga comprised a herd of goats, an association also present in Greek mythology. The association with goats carried into the Greek astronomical tradition, though it later became associated with a charioteer along with the shepherd. In Greek mythology, Auriga is often identified as the mythological"
"Taurus (constellation) Taurus (Latin for ""the Bull"") is one of the constellations of the zodiac, which means it is crossed by the plane of the ecliptic. Taurus is a large and prominent constellation in the northern hemisphere's winter sky. It is one of the oldest constellations, dating back to at least the Early Bronze Age when it marked the location of the Sun during the spring equinox. Its importance to the agricultural calendar influenced various bull figures in the mythologies of Ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. A number of features exist that are of interest to"
"Europe. All but one honored instruments that symbolised the Age of Enlightenment. He gave these constellations Bayer designations, including ten stars in Pictor now named Alpha to Nu Pictoris. He labelled the constellation Equuleus Pictorius on his 1763 chart, the word ""Equuleus"" meaning small horse, or easel—perhaps from an old custom among artists of carrying a canvas on a donkey. The German astronomer Johann Bode called it Pluteum Pictoris. The name was shortened to its current form in 1845 by the English astronomer Francis Baily on the suggestion of his countryman Sir John Herschel. Pictor is a small constellation bordered"