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Orion constellation

constellation used in Ulysses’ navigation

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Canonical name
Orion constellation
Disambiguator
constellation used in Ulysses’ navigation
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Individual
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Editorial note
This celestial referent is kept distinct from the remembered individual Orion in the current source.

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Claims

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·Direct

The Orion constellation faces the circling Bear used in Ulysses’s navigation.

See evidence text
“facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus”

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·Direct
“facing Orion”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 21

In four days he had completed the whole work, and on the fifth Calypso sent him from the island after washing him and giving him some clean clothes. She gave him a goat skin full of black wine, and another larger one of water; she also gave him a wallet full of provisions, and found him in much good meat. Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder. He never closed his eyes, but kept them fixed on the Pleiads, on late-setting Bootes, and on the Bear—which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus—for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left. Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.