Orion

Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
5/29/2020, 9:30 PM	Mike C	update #108
7/11/2018, 11:16 AM	Mike C	update #100
12/8/2017, 12:41 PM	Mike C	update #97
7/2/2017, 10:39 PM	Mike C	update #95
7/27/2015, 11:23 PM	Mike C	update #90
12/3/2014, 12:28 AM	Mike C	update #89
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM	Mike C	earliest recorded revision

Gender Masculine

Usage Greek Mythology

Scripts Ὠρίων(Ancient Greek)

Pronounced Pron. AW-REE-AWN(Classical Greek) o-RIE-ən(English)

Meaning & History

Meaning uncertain, but possibly related to Greek ὅριον (horion) meaning "boundary, limit". Alternatively it may be derived from Akkadian Uru-anna meaning "light of the heavens". This is the name of a constellation, which gets its name from a legendary Greek hunter who was killed by a scorpion sent by the earth goddess Gaia.