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{i} Orion

A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis

A male given name of modern usage

In Madge's judgment, her Uncle Orion had suffered most of his life from the name he'd been given, requiring that people ask him to repeat it and boys his own age make fun of it.

A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel

{i} giant hunter who was killed by Artemis and became a constellation (Greek Mythology); constellation in the celestial equator (Astronomy)

In Greek mythology, a powerful hunter. He was sometimes said to be the son of Poseidon. He drove the wild beasts out of the island of Chios and fell in love with Merope, daughter of the island's king. Disapproving of Orion, the king had him blinded, but his vision was restored by the rays of the rising sun. He later went to Crete to live and hunt with Artemis. Some legends hold that he was killed by Artemis or Apollo out of jealousy; another tells that he was fatally bitten by a scorpion. After his death the gods placed him in the sky as a constellation