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An engraving of Orion from Johann Bayer's Uranometria, 1603 (US Naval Observatory Library). In Greek mythology, Orion (/ ə ˈ r aɪ ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or Ὠαρίων; Latin: Orion) [1] was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion.
In Greek mythology, Hyrieus (/ ˈ h ɪ r i ˌ uː s /; Ancient Greek: Ὑριεύς) was the eponym of Hyria in Boeotia, where he dwelt and where Orion (see below) was born; [1] some sources though place him either in Thrace or on Chios. [2] Most accounts speak of him as a king, although Ovid and Nonnus portray him as a peasant. [3] [4]
In Greek mythology, Menippe (/ m ɪ ˈ n ɪ p iː /; Ancient Greek: Μενίππη, romanized: Meníppē, lit. 'courageous mare, [1] sipper [2] ') and Metioche (Ancient Greek: Μητιόχη, romanized: Mētióchē) were daughters of Orion. They feature in a brief myth about human sacrifice.
Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. ... In Greek mythology, Orion was a gigantic, supernaturally strong hunter, [27] ...
Orion's Belt is an asterism in the constellation of Orion.Other names include the Belt of Orion, the Three Kings, and the Three Sisters. [1] The belt consists of three bright and easily identifiable collinear star systems – Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka – nearly equally spaced in a line, spanning an angular size of ~ 140′ (2.3°).
The Orion correlation theory is a fringe theory in Egyptology attempting to explain the arrangement of the Giza pyramid complex. It posits that there is a correlation between the location of the three largest pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex and Orion's Belt of the constellation Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by the ...
Alnilam is the central star of Orion's Belt in the equatorial constellation of Orion. It has the Bayer designation ε Orionis, which is Latinised to Epsilon Orionis and abbreviated Epsilon Ori or ε Ori. This is a massive, blue supergiant star some 1,200 light-years distant.
Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant born outside his mother. [6] He placed great stress on the variant in which Merope is the wife of Oenopion. He sees this as the remnant of a lost form of the myth in which Merope was Orion's mother (converted by later generations to his stepmother).