celestial-body

Orion

Cosmos

The hunter-shaped constellation of later Greek sky-naming. This entry is the star-figure, not the unpublished hunter-hero of the stories hung on it.

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 Handbook star-figure, not the unpublished hunter-hero of the stories hung on the shape.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

    used in · sourced · documented

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Tetrabiblos · Claudius Ptolemy

    Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos.

  • MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree

    Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.