Star Gazing

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 154007

Geoff:
> You left out Bellatrix and the "boys".

> Bellatrix...  gamma Orion

houyhnhnm:

Orion the violator of one of the many Meropes in Greek mythology.

But my money is on Merope of the Pleiades who married a mortal 
(Muggle?), Sisyphus in fact, and for that reason her star is the 
dimmest of the seven.  She had one son, Glaucus, who grew up to be 
king of Corinth.  He fed his horses on human flesh to make them fierce 
and thus brought down the wrath of the gods who caused him to be torn 
apart by horses.

Merope, according to Wikipedia means "bee mask", but I read the 
meaning somewhere else as "bee killer" (can't remember where)

Where are the etymologists (or entomologists, for that matter)?