A CACOPHONY OF SOUND FROM ORION THE BRILLIANT ARYAN
KL: In Gaulish, the root cellos can be interpreted as 'striker', derived from Proto-Indo-European *-kel-do-s whence also come Latin per-cellere ('striker'), Greek klao ('to break') and Lithuanian kálti ('to hammer, to forge').[6] This could be a root for KiLiKiYa. KL
Su: Sucellus is translated as 'the good striker. 'The prefix su-means 'good' and is found in many Gaulish personal names.
Dagon/Dagan, father of Ba'al could be 'Dagda' who has been likened to the Germanic god Odin and the Gaulish god Sucellos.
Dagon/Dagan, father of Ba'al could be 'Dagda' who has been likened to the Germanic god Odin and the Gaulish god Sucellos.
An alternate etymology is offered by Celticist Blanca María Prósper, who posits a derivative of the Proto-Indo-European root *kel- ‘to protect’, i.e. *su-kel-mó(n) "having a good protection" or *su-kel-mṇ-, an agentive formation meaning "protecting well, providing good protection",with a thematic derivative built on the oblique stem, *su-kel-mn-o- (and subsequent simplification and assimilation of the sonorant cluster and a secondary full grade of the root). Su-sar-man, where sar could be substituted for kel. Susarman is an Indic personal name Suśarman, found in Hindu mythology. research.
Pisces; The mythological events concerning this constellation are said to have taken place in Mesopotamia, around the Euphrates river, a strong indication that the Greeks inherited this constellation from the Titans Sumero-Babylonians.
The story of the devoted fishes appears in an early episode in Greek mythology, in which the gods of Olympus had defeated the Titans and the Giants in a power struggle. Mother Earth, also known as Gaia, it seems was not pleased with the new order, so she coupled with Tartarus, the lowest region of the Underworld where Zeus had imprisoned the Titans, and from this unlikely union came forth Typhon, an alternative, reactionary new Titans and Giants. From Zeus point of view He was the most awful monster the world had ever seen.
A cacophony of sound.
According to Hesiod in the Theogony, Typhon had a hundred dragon’s heads from which black tongues flicked out. Fire blazed from the eyes in each of these heads, and from them came a cacophony of sound: sometimes ethereal voices which only the gods could understand, while at other times Typhon bellowed like a bull, roared like a lion, yelped like puppies, or hissed like a nest of snakes.
Gaia sent this fearsome monster to attack the new gods. Pan saw him coming and alerted the others with a shout. Pan himself jumped into the river and changed his form into at least half fish in his lower parts, a goat-fish, more acceptable, now modest enough, the Greek Pan could be represented by the constellation Capricornus, this is also an existing name, not sure how early, for it is also on record with the Babylonians.
A cord joins the tails of Pisces, the two fish. The horizontal line passing through the southerly fish is the celestial equator, and the diagonal line is the Sun’s annual path, the ecliptic. The point where they cross is known as the vernal equinox .From the Atlas Coelestis of John Flamsteed (1729).
The goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros took cover among the reeds on the banks of the Euphrates, but when the wind rustled the undergrowth Aphrodite became fearful. Holding Eros in her lap she called for help to the water nymphs and leapt into the river. In one version of the story, two fish swam up and carried Aphrodite and Eros to safety on their backs, although in another version the two refugees were themselves changed into fish. The mythologists said that because of this story the Syrians would not eat fish, regarding them as gods or the protectors of gods.
An alternative story, given by Hyginus in the Fabulae, is that an egg fell into the Euphrates and was rolled to the shore by two fish. Doves sat on the egg and from it hatched Aphrodite who, in gratitude, put the fish in the sky. Eratosthenes had yet another explanation: he wrote that the two fish represented by Pisces were offspring of the much larger fish that is represented by the constellation Piscis Austrinus. When the goddess Derceto fell into a lake near Bambyce in northern Syria, she was rescued by the large fish; she placed this fish and its two youngsters in the sky as Piscis Austrinus and Pisces, respectively.
The Greek name for the constellation was Ἰχθύες (Ichthyes); Pisces is the Latin equivalent. In the sky, the two fish of Pisces are represented swimming at right angles to each other, one northwards and the other westwards, their tails joined by a cord or ribbon. The Greeks offered no good explanation for this cord, but according to the historian Paul Kunitzsch the Babylonians visualized a pair of fish joined by a cord in this area, so evidently the Greeks borrowed this idea although the significance of the cord was lost.
According to Hesiod in the Theogony, Typhon had a hundred dragon’s heads from which black tongues flicked out. Fire blazed from the eyes in each of these heads, and from them came a cacophony of sound: sometimes ethereal voices which only the gods could understand, while at other times Typhon bellowed like a bull, roared like a lion, yelped like puppies, or hissed like a nest of snakes.
Gaia sent this fearsome monster to attack the new gods. Pan saw him coming and alerted the others with a shout. Pan himself jumped into the river and changed his form into at least half fish in his lower parts, a goat-fish, more acceptable, now modest enough, the Greek Pan could be represented by the constellation Capricornus, this is also an existing name, not sure how early, for it is also on record with the Babylonians.
A cord joins the tails of Pisces, the two fish. The horizontal line passing through the southerly fish is the celestial equator, and the diagonal line is the Sun’s annual path, the ecliptic. The point where they cross is known as the vernal equinox .From the Atlas Coelestis of John Flamsteed (1729).
The goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros took cover among the reeds on the banks of the Euphrates, but when the wind rustled the undergrowth Aphrodite became fearful. Holding Eros in her lap she called for help to the water nymphs and leapt into the river. In one version of the story, two fish swam up and carried Aphrodite and Eros to safety on their backs, although in another version the two refugees were themselves changed into fish. The mythologists said that because of this story the Syrians would not eat fish, regarding them as gods or the protectors of gods.
An alternative story, given by Hyginus in the Fabulae, is that an egg fell into the Euphrates and was rolled to the shore by two fish. Doves sat on the egg and from it hatched Aphrodite who, in gratitude, put the fish in the sky. Eratosthenes had yet another explanation: he wrote that the two fish represented by Pisces were offspring of the much larger fish that is represented by the constellation Piscis Austrinus. When the goddess Derceto fell into a lake near Bambyce in northern Syria, she was rescued by the large fish; she placed this fish and its two youngsters in the sky as Piscis Austrinus and Pisces, respectively.
The Greek name for the constellation was Ἰχθύες (Ichthyes); Pisces is the Latin equivalent. In the sky, the two fish of Pisces are represented swimming at right angles to each other, one northwards and the other westwards, their tails joined by a cord or ribbon. The Greeks offered no good explanation for this cord, but according to the historian Paul Kunitzsch the Babylonians visualized a pair of fish joined by a cord in this area, so evidently the Greeks borrowed this idea although the significance of the cord was lost.
ONE FISH NORTH THE OTHER WEST TIED WITH A CORD NW TOGETHER
ORION, OR*I*ON, UR*I*AN, AR*I*AN, ARYAN
There is a strange and persistent story about the birth of Orion, designed to account for the early version of his name, Urion, close to the Sumerian original URU AN-NA, which shortened is URUAN. According to this story, there lived in Thebes an old farmer named Hyrieus. The story reads that one day, he Hyrieus, offered hospitality to three passing strangers, who happened to be the gods Zeus, Neptune, and Hermes. After these gods had eaten, they asked Hyrieus if he had a wish they might fulfill. The old man confessed that he would have loved to have had a son and heir. All three, as in a triad, promised to fulfill his wish. So standing together around the hide of the ox that Hyrieus had sacrificed for them which they had just consumed, ( unlike the sacrifice of Hermes, where he offered the bag of bones). The gods now urinated on the hide and told Hyrieus to bury it for nine months. From this hide it is said, in due course was born a beautiful brilliant boy whom Hyrieus named Urion after the mode of his conception. The mode I presume is that Haig introduced the concept of three faces One God?
Orion (Ὠρίων in Greek) is the most splendid of constellations, befitting a character who was in legend the tallest and most handsome of men. His right shoulder and left foot are marked by the brilliant stars Betelgeuse and Rigel, with a distinctive line of three stars forming his belt. ‘No other constellation more accurately represents the figure of a man’, says Germanicus Caesar.
Manilius called it ‘golden Orion’ and ‘the mightiest of constellations’, and exaggerated its brilliance by saying that, when Orion rises, ‘night feigns the brightness of day and folds its dusky wings’. Manilius described Orion as ‘stretching his arms over a vast expanse of sky and rising to the stars with no less huge a stride’. In fact, Orion is not an exceptionally large constellation, ranking only 26th in size (smaller, for instance, than Perseus according to the modern constellation boundaries), but the brilliance of its stars gives it the illusion of being much larger.
Orion is also one of the most ancient constellations, being among the few star groups known to the earliest Greek writers such as Homer and Hesiod.
In the sky, Orion is depicted facing the snorting charge of neighbouring Taurus the bull, yet the myth of Orion makes no reference to such a combat. However, the constellation originated with the Sumerians, who saw in it their great hero Gilgamesh fighting the Bull of Heaven. The Sumerian name for Orion was URU AN-NA, meaning light of heaven. Taurus was GUD AN-NA, bull of heaven.
Some locate Gilgamesh as the neighboring constellation of Orion, facing Taurus as if in combat, while others identify him with the sun whose rising on the equinox vanquishes the constellation.
ORION IN THE WINTER TRIANGLE HEXAGON
The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere’s celestial sphere. The stars in the hexagon are parts of six constellations. Counter-clockwise around the hexagon, starting with Rigel, these are Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Canis Minor, and Canis Majo.
The Winter Hexagon, is also known as the Winter Circle, is a prominent winter asterism formed by seven stars prominent in the winter sky.
These are Rigel in Orion, Aldebaran in Taurus, Capella in Auriga, Castor and Pollux in Gemini, Procyon in Canis Minor, and Sirius in Canis Majorconstellation.M
Betelgeuse is also particularly easy to locate, being a shoulder of Orion, which assists stargazers in finding the triangle. Once the triangle is located, the larger hexagon may then be found. Several of the stars in the hexagon may also be found independently of one another by following various lines traced through various stars in Orion.
Orion fell in love it was said with the Pleiades and pursued them with amorous intent. But according to Hyginus, this was negative publicity, he says, it was actually their mother Pleione Orion was after and that the plaides he looked upon as his daughters. Zeus snatched the group up and placed them among the stars, where the Greeks want to claim Orion still pursues them across the sky each night eternal.ORION, OR*I*ON, UR*I*AN, AR*I*AN, ARYAN
There is a strange and persistent story about the birth of Orion, designed to account for the early version of his name, Urion, close to the Sumerian original URU AN-NA, which shortened is URUAN. According to this story, there lived in Thebes an old farmer named Hyrieus. The story reads that one day, he Hyrieus, offered hospitality to three passing strangers, who happened to be the gods Zeus, Neptune, and Hermes. After these gods had eaten, they asked Hyrieus if he had a wish they might fulfill. The old man confessed that he would have loved to have had a son and heir. All three, as in a triad, promised to fulfill his wish. So standing together around the hide of the ox that Hyrieus had sacrificed for them which they had just consumed, ( unlike the sacrifice of Hermes, where he offered the bag of bones). The gods now urinated on the hide and told Hyrieus to bury it for nine months. From this hide it is said, in due course was born a beautiful brilliant boy whom Hyrieus named Urion after the mode of his conception. The mode I presume is that Haig introduced the concept of three faces One God?
Orion (Ὠρίων in Greek) is the most splendid of constellations, befitting a character who was in legend the tallest and most handsome of men. His right shoulder and left foot are marked by the brilliant stars Betelgeuse and Rigel, with a distinctive line of three stars forming his belt. ‘No other constellation more accurately represents the figure of a man’, says Germanicus Caesar.
Manilius called it ‘golden Orion’ and ‘the mightiest of constellations’, and exaggerated its brilliance by saying that, when Orion rises, ‘night feigns the brightness of day and folds its dusky wings’. Manilius described Orion as ‘stretching his arms over a vast expanse of sky and rising to the stars with no less huge a stride’. In fact, Orion is not an exceptionally large constellation, ranking only 26th in size (smaller, for instance, than Perseus according to the modern constellation boundaries), but the brilliance of its stars gives it the illusion of being much larger.
Orion is also one of the most ancient constellations, being among the few star groups known to the earliest Greek writers such as Homer and Hesiod.
In the sky, Orion is depicted facing the snorting charge of neighbouring Taurus the bull, yet the myth of Orion makes no reference to such a combat. However, the constellation originated with the Sumerians, who saw in it their great hero Gilgamesh fighting the Bull of Heaven. The Sumerian name for Orion was URU AN-NA, meaning light of heaven. Taurus was GUD AN-NA, bull of heaven.
Some locate Gilgamesh as the neighboring constellation of Orion, facing Taurus as if in combat, while others identify him with the sun whose rising on the equinox vanquishes the constellation.
ORION IN THE WINTER TRIANGLE HEXAGON
The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere’s celestial sphere. The stars in the hexagon are parts of six constellations. Counter-clockwise around the hexagon, starting with Rigel, these are Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Canis Minor, and Canis Majo.
The Winter Hexagon, is also known as the Winter Circle, is a prominent winter asterism formed by seven stars prominent in the winter sky.
These are Rigel in Orion, Aldebaran in Taurus, Capella in Auriga, Castor and Pollux in Gemini, Procyon in Canis Minor, and Sirius in Canis Majorconstellation.M
Betelgeuse is also particularly easy to locate, being a shoulder of Orion, which assists stargazers in finding the triangle. Once the triangle is located, the larger hexagon may then be found. Several of the stars in the hexagon may also be found independently of one another by following various lines traced through various stars in Orion.
Regarding Orions pursuing of Artemis, a lot of negative things were said, however a very different story, is recounted by Hyginus, which is that Artemis loved Orion and was seriously considering giving up her vows of chastity (to stay with her brother Apollon) and marry Orion. For the thought was that Orion like her was the greatest male hunter and she the female huntress, they would have made a formidable couple for sure. But Apollo, twin brother of Artemis, was against the match. One day, while Orion was swimming, Apollo challenged Artemis to demonstrate her skill at archery by hitting a small black object that he pointed out bobbing among the waves. Artemis pierced it with one shot – and was horrified to find that she had killed Orion. Grieving, it was, she who placed him among the constellations.
Bright stars in Orion
Orion is one of several constellations in which the star labelled Alpha is not the brightest. The brightest star in Orion is actually Beta Orionis, called Rigel from the Arabic rijlmeaning ‘foot’ from Ptolemy’s description of it as ‘the bright star in the left foot’. Ptolemy also said it was shared with the river Eridanus, and some old charts depict it in this dual role. Rigel is a brilliant blue-white supergiant about 860 light years away.
Bright stars in Orion
Orion is one of several constellations in which the star labelled Alpha is not the brightest. The brightest star in Orion is actually Beta Orionis, called Rigel from the Arabic rijlmeaning ‘foot’ from Ptolemy’s description of it as ‘the bright star in the left foot’. Ptolemy also said it was shared with the river Eridanus, and some old charts depict it in this dual role. Rigel is a brilliant blue-white supergiant about 860 light years away.
Death of Orion
Stories of the death of Orion are numerous and again conflicting. Astronomical mythographers such as Aratus, Eratosthenes, and Hyginus were agreed that a scorpion was involved. In one version, told by Eratosthenes and Hyginus, Orion boasted that he was the greatest of hunters. He declared to Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and Leto, her mother, that he could protect them and kill any beast on Earth. The other Earth gods shuddered indignantly and from a crack in the ground emerged a scorpion which stung the presumptuous giant to death.
Ovid has still another account; he says that Orion was killed trying to save Leto from the scorpion. Even the location varies, for I believe the original story was Messapotamian. Eratosthenes and Hyginus say that Orion’s death happened in Crete, but Aratus places it in Chios.
In both versions, the outcome was that Orion and the scorpion (the constellation Scorpius) were placed on opposite sides of the sky, so that as Scorpius rises in the east, Orion flees below the western horizon. ‘Wretched Orion still fears being wounded by the poisonous sting of the scorpion’, noted Germanicus Caesar.
The Earth shuddered indignantly and from a crack in the ground emerged a scorpion which stung the presumptuous giant to death. Gilgamesh?
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