Orion

Astrology

• Orion is used in Astrology.

  Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats Orion among the constellations used in judicial astrology. Handbook star-figure, not the unpublished hunter-hero of the stories hung on the shape.

  from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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Mesopotamian tradition

• Orion appears in MUL.APIN.

  Hunger and Pingree’s MUL.APIN attests the True Shepherd of Anu (MUL.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA) among Mesopotamian star-names, identified with Orion. Cuneiform list-work, not Ptolemy’s constellation handbook and not a minted hunter-hero.

  from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier

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Egyptian religion

• Orion appears in Egyptian religion.

  The Book of the Dead seats Sah — Orion — among sky figures the dead may join. A named Orion figure in that corpus, not the unpublished hunter-hero dump and not Sirius as Sopdet already filed.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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• Orion is sacred to Osiris.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats Orion with Osiris in Egyptian star speech — the constellation as Osiris’s sky figure beside moon and Nile allegories. A named Orion–Osiris cult link under this source, not a Greek hunter-myth dump alone.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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• Orion’s Sword is historically related to Orion.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris keeps Orion as Osiris’s sky figure; Orion’s Sword is the hanging asterism of that same constellation under this source. A named sword–Orion part-whole figure, not the Orion Nebula alone and not a second Osiris sacred_to twin.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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