Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Greek and Roman mythology and religion, Sirius (/ ˈ s ɪ r ɪ ə s /, SEE-ree-əss; Ancient Greek: Σείριος, romanized: Seírios, lit. 'scorching' pronounced) is the god and personification of the star Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky and the most prominent star in the constellation of Canis Major (or the Greater Dog). [1]
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Goddesses depicted as dogs or whose myths and iconography are associated with dogs. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A.
Gula (Sumerian: "the great" [1]) was a Mesopotamian goddess of medicine, portrayed as a divine physician and midwife.Over the course of the second and first millennia BCE, she became one of the main deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon, and eventually started to be viewed as the second highest ranked goddess after Ishtar.
This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological dogs .
With both Greek and Latin origins, Astra is a lovely name with ancient roots. This baby girl’s name takes on the plural form of ‘astrum’ and symbolizes none other than, you guessed it, stars. 4.
Celebrities like Snoop Dog and Paris Hilton have come up with the most unique and funniest dog names. Here are our favorite famous dog names out there. ... Mavericks beat Thunder 106-98 as OKC All ...
In addition to following Orion into the night sky, the Dog Star Sirius can be easily located in the heavens by following the line created by the prominent asterism Orion's Belt. The English name is a calque of the Latin dies caniculares (lit. ' the puppy days '), itself a calque of the ancient Greek κυνάδες ἡμέραι (kynádes ...