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Johann Bayer's Uranometria showing the constellation Orion. Orion the Hunter is star lore created by the ancient Greeks. Star lore or starlore is the creating and cherishing of mythical stories about the stars and star patterns (constellations and asterisms); that is, folklore based upon the stars and star patterns.
The story has appeared many times in such diverse media as plays, poetry, novels, operas, classical and popular music, film, and paintings. A significant part of the northern sky contains several constellations named after the story's figures; in particular, the constellation Andromeda is named after her.
In the Navajo creation story, Upward-reachingway, the Pleiades was the first constellation placed in the sky by Black God. When Black God entered the hogan of creation, the Pleiades were on his ankle; he stamped his foot and they moved to his knee, then to his ankle, then to his shoulder, and finally to his left temple.
The engraved stone shows the 1,467 stars visible from Korea, [1] 264 constellations and their names, the ecliptic and equatorial lines, and 365 scales around. It was compiled through a combination of a Goguryeo star map with more recent observations.
Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory.Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear. [1]
Sah was a god in Ancient Egyptian religion, representing a constellation that encompassed the stars in Orion and Lepus, [1] as well as stars found in some neighbouring modern constellations. [2] [3] His consort was Sopdet known by the ancient Greek name as Sothis, [4] the goddess of the star Sirius.
[28] [29] This story was once thought to have been based on an older Sumerian version in which Tiamat is instead slain by Enlil of Nippur, [30] [31] but is now thought to be purely an invention of Babylonian propagandists with the intention to show Marduk as superior to the Sumerian deities. [31] Another myth about Labbu is similarly interpreted.
Possibly Acrux (Alpha Crucis), Mimosa (Beta Crucis) and Gacrux (Gamma Crucis) are bright stars in this constellation that are never seen in Chinese sky. The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 南十字座 ( nán shí zì zuò ), meaning "the southern cross-shaped constellation".