unknown.

But the morning star shone with a different significance as the herald
of the day, the torchbearer who lights the way for radiant Aurora on
her triumphal progress through the skies. Hence he was called
Eosphorus, or Phosphorus, the bearer of the dawn, translated into
Latin as Lucifer, the Light-bearer. The son of Eos, or Aurora, and the
Titan Astraeus, he was of the same parentage as the other multitude of
the starry host, to whom a similar origin was ascribed, and from whom
in Greek mythology he was evidently believed to differ only in the
superior order of his brightness. Homer, who mentions the planet in
the following passage:

"But when the star of Lucifer appeared,
The harbinger of light, whom following close,
Spreads o'er the sea the saffron-robed morn."

(LORD DERBY'S "Iliad.")

recognizes no distinction between those celestial nomads, the planets,
"wandering stars," as the Arabs call them, which visibly change their
position relatively to the other stars, and the latter, whose places
on the sphere are apparently fixed and immutable. In this he and his
compatriots were far behind the ancient Egyptians, who probably
derived their knowledge from still earlier speculators in Asia, for
they not only observed the movements of some at least of the planets,
but believed that Mercury and Venus revolved as satellites round the
sun, which in its turn circled round our lesser world. Pythagoras is
said to have been the first to identify Hesperus with Phosphor, as the

"Silver planet both of eve and morn,"

and by Plato the same fact is recognized. The other planets, all of
which had, according to him, been originally named in Egypt and Syria,
have each its descriptive title in his nomenclature. Thus the
innermost, "the Star of Mercury," is called Stilbon, "the Sparkler,"
Mars, Pyroeis, "the Fiery One," while Jupiter, the planet of the
slowest course but one, is designated as Phaeton, and Saturn, the
tardiest of all, Phaenon. These names were in later times abandoned in
favor of those of the divinities to whom they were respectively
dedicated, unalterably associated now with the days of the week, over
which they have been selected to preside.

The Copernican theory, which once and forever "brushed the cobwebs out
of the sky," by clearing away the mists of pre-existing error, first
completely explained the varying positions of the Shepherd's star,
irradiating the first