hi michael ~ did you ever get to the bottom of the original name meaning of this star?
i know you posted 23 years ago (!!!) but hoping you are still around and maybe found the answer? :)
what i have so far found:
Playing with the name- alb- is alba- white-
Albi- another, other, different, beyond (from root AL)
Albis- river
Re in irish is moon, period, space, intervening period
White moon, white space
white river
Beyond space
Another space that lies beyond?
Hierus (as someone suggested that the H's drop off so IREUS-IREO?) is vervain- the herb-
but also means sacred or supernatural
so could be white vervain (doubt it)
or sacred/supernatural white
AB- is heart in egyptian
sacred heart? supernatural heart
in this constellation many ancient cultures saw it as the origin, source point
On Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Michael A. Covington wrote:
Raincrow <rain...@icx.net> wrote in message news:397FBA...@icx.net...
The guys at
http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/constellns/albireo.html have it as Latin for "ab ireo" from Ptolemy.
Right -- hence my original question. They got it from Allen, "Star Names." But there is no Latin word "ireo" (ireus, ireum, etc.) as far as I can tell, and nothing like that in Ptolemy's text as far as I can tell.
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