Hare and hounds??...now come on!… we’re supposed to be doing an orbit past
the ‘Mazzaroth’, not doing a pub crawl thru every English town!
Well, legend has it that Orion was a dab hand at hunting hares like Lepus with his two dogs, Canis
Major and Canis Minor.
Well that certainly doesn’t sound like part of the Redemption story. I suggest you check the
names and meanings of their stars, see if they relate at all to Gemini, then get back to me. You’ve got
homework, buddy.
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Okay, this is what I found and if you can make any sense of it, please help…
In Canis Major we have:
Sirius the ‘Dog Star’. Greek seirios means ‘glowing’ and this binary
is the brightest star of all. It was thought that extra heat from this star
made us so hot in summer that dogs were panting.
Mirzam from Arabic al-murzim meaning ‘the herald’
Furud from Arabic al-furud
meaning ‘single’
Adhara
from Arabic al-adhara meaning ‘the
virgins’
Wezen from Arabic al-wazn meaning ‘the weight’
Aludra from Arabic al-udhrah meaning ‘the maiden or virgin’
In Canis Minor we have:
Procyon, another bright binary star,
from Greek prokyon meaning ‘before
the dog’ (it rises before Sirius)
Gomeisa from Arabic al-ghumaisa meaning ‘the bleary-eyed’ or
‘weeping one’
In Lepus (Latin) the hare:
Nihal from Arabic al-nihal meaning
‘camels quench their thirst’
Arneb from Arabic arnab meaning ‘hare’
Arneb from Arabic arnab meaning ‘hare’
Siriusly…you’ve lost me! Mythology seems to have taken over here.
That makes two of us lost. The only thing that
comes to mind is the Lord Jesus saying prophetically thru David in Psalm
22:
“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.”… and later on – “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.”
I’m sure Jesus could have felt like a hare with the dogs onto Him but how
it all connects with Gemini…who
knows? The only connection obvious to me
is the two of us looking at the Gemini twins with two dogs nearby.
Yes - who knows? Maybe none of this ‘hare and
hounds’ is original because the star names sure don’t relate.
Acknowledgements:
Stellarium
Photo credit: hareandhoundsbriercliffe.co.uk
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