The Latin word for south is austral from which we get the second word in the title ‘Pisces Australis‘. “Drained ( exhaustus), because one is consumed and made empty (compare haurio, past participle haustus, ‘drain’)” haustrum, ‘scoop of a waterwheel’), that is, the waterwheel, is so called from ‘drawing’ ( haurire, past participle of haustus) water”. In heraldry Hauriant is a fish posture that show a fish rising, or swimming vertically upwards. Derivatives words: haustellum (a proboscis in certain insects adapted for sucking blood or juices of plants), haustorium (a specialized absorbing structure of a parasitic plant, such as the rootlike outgrowth of the dodder, that obtains food from a host plant), exhaust, to drain of resources or properties deplete, from ex– + haurire, ‘to draw out (water), drain, breathe’, which is probably cognate with Greek ( pur auein ‘to light (a fire)’ (for Greek ausiein and with Old Norse ausa, ‘to scoop (water)’, austr, ‘the act of scooping’ – Klein.). Latin aurire comes from the Indo-European root aus- ‘To draw water’. “The ‘ southern-fish‘ ( Piscis Australis) is named either because it takes up (translator’s note compare ( aurire, past participle of ( austus, ‘drink’) a wave of water in its mouth ( os, genitive oris) or because it appears ( oriri) at the time when the Pleiades begin to decline in the west” The chief god of the ancient Philistines, represented as half-man and half-fish and had merman characteristics. This hauriant fish (a fish posture that show a fish rising, or swimming vertically upwards) might represent the penile erection.Īllen says “La Lande asserted that Dupuis had proved this to be the sky symbol of the god Dagon of the Syrians”. In astrology Aquarius rules the circulation of blood (among other things). Piscis Austrinus is a drinking fish, depicted with its mouth open drinking (or engorging) the water pouring from the jar of Aquarius. The human penis relies entirely on engorgement with blood to reach its erect state. Priapism is a persistent, usually painful erection of the penis. Diodorus Siculus (circe 1st B.C.) says Isis commanded that their temples in an erect position and that this is the myth about the birth of Priapus, also called by some Ithyphallus (Greek ithus or ithys ‘straight or erect’ + phallus). The replacement phallus should also relate to this constellation. Piscis Austrinis represents the “ Oxyrinque adored in Egypt,” important in Egyptian mythology as “the fish that swallowed the penis of Osiris.” Isis fashioned a replacement for Osiris’ missing penis or phallus, either out of clay, wood or gold, and attached this to her dead husband’s body, brought him to life and conceived Horus. The particular sturgeon species called the Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrinchus is the Atlantic sturgeon (Maybe this explains the prefix oxy– in Oxyrhynchus, – rhynchus is Greek for beak). The brain of the African elephant nose fish uses 60% of its body’s oxygen supply. The human brain uses 15-20% of the body’s oxygen supply. Its brain size to body weight ratio is higher than that of humans. and Germany to test the quality of drinking water. This fish is used by water departments in the U.S. The Long-nosed elephant fish has an electrical organ which it uses to find its food in dark and murky waters. Oxyrhynchus‘ papyrus-rich garbage heaps were excavated in the late 1890s and yielded paper fragments of books and documents of seven centuries of Graeco-Egyptian life. Mormyrid or Elephant-nose fish are depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs dating from around 2500 B.C. According to Staal, the fish is often seen as a sign of salvation in the legends of a great deluge: “The fish drinks the waters of the flood to save the world.”Īllen says that this constellation was believed to be the “ Oxyrinque adored in Egypt.” Oxyrhynchus is the town named after a species of fish of the Nile River which was important in Egyptian mythology as “the fish that swallowed the penis of Osiris.” It is generally believed to be the elephantfish of the family Mormyrid. The Southern Fish is depicted with its mouth open, drinking the water that is being poured from the jar of Aquarius. Pisces Australis, or Piscis Aistrinus, is the Southern Fish, and not to be confused with the two fishes of Pisces. Clues to the meaning of this celestial featureĬlues to the meaning of this celestial feature Constellations of Words Explore the etymology and symbolism of the constellations Pisces Australis, the Southern Fishġ.
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