Manilius ( Astronomica, 1st century AD, see below) said of Bootes: The term is a composite from Persian and Greek, for gaza in Persian means ‘treasury,’ and phulakion in Greek means ‘custody.’ “A gazo phylacium is a strongbox in a temple where what is given for the needs of the poor is gathered. A phylax was a guard or watchman in ancient Rome, phylaxis relates to the defense of the body against infection, from Greek phulakterion ‘amulet’, prophylaxis is preventive treatment of disease. The suffix – phylax is from Greek phulax, from Greek phulassein, phulasso, ‘watcher, guard, sentry-keeper’. The prefix Arcto- is from Greek arktos, and related to Latin Ursa, bear. The word ‘ Bootes‘ actually means ‘cow-driver’, but in connection with the two Bears ( Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) he is often seen as a Bear Driver or Bear Herder (Arctophylax) who chases the Bears around the pole star, Polaris. ‘tail of the bear’), because it is located next to the heart of Bootes. For this reason it is called Arcturus, as if it were the Greek arktos oura (i.e. Arcturus is a star located in the sign of Bootes beyond the tail of the Great Bear. It is a very noticeable sign with its many stars, one of which is Arcturus. People have also called this constellation Bootes, because it is attached to the Wain ( Ursa Major). the ‘bear-keeper’) is so named because it follows Arctos, that is, the Great Bear ( Ursa Major). Blake in Astronomical Myths, 1877, thought that the original title of this constellation in all probability was ‘ Arcturus‘.Īrctophylax, on earth Bootes named”. Īrctophylax is a Greek title for Bootes, and John F. “ Gâus has in Sanskrit the two meanings ‘cow’ and ‘earth.’ In Greek gê, ‘earth’ can be traced to this word ” The Rigveda-Aryans, like the Iranians, have given the primeval cow this place in their mythology and compare her nourishing to the nourishing earth and call the earth “cow” so often in their hymns, that the Sanskrit word gô, cow, also has the meaning earth. The above root might be related to Gaea or Gaia ‘earth’, or goddess of the earth, Mother Earth, whence geography. Klein relates Gautama (Buddha’s epithet) to this root. Derivatives: cow¹ (Latin bos, bovis, Greek bous, Sanskrit gau, gaus), kine, cowslip, beef, bovine, bugle¹ (these words from Latin bos, stem bov-), buccinator (the buccinator muscles hold in our cheeks during whistling and forceful blowing as in playing a trumpet, hence, the ‘trumpeter’ muscles, from Latin bucina, horn, trumpet, from * bou-kan-, ‘bellower’), Boötes, bucolic (a farmer or shepherd a rustic), bulimia (excessive or insatiable appetite), butter, butyric (butyric acid, occurs in the normal vaginal secretions of primates, including humans, from Greek bous, ox, bull, cow), buffalo, Gurkha. Bootes is related to Old French bovier, herdsman, from Latin bovis, genitive of bos, cow, from the Indo-European root * gwou– ‘Cow’. Īllen ( Star Names) says the word Bootes “has been variously derived: some say from Bous, ‘ox’, + Greek -othein, ‘to drive'”.īootes seems to be both the cow-herder and also the cow ( Taurus is a Bull, not a cow). This pleased Ceres, the Goddess of Agriculture, so much that she asked Jupiter to place Bootes amongst the stars as a token of gratitude”.īootes is the ox-driving Ploughman or Herdsman, from Latin Bootes, from Greek Boötes, plowman, from Greek botein (or bootein), to plow, from bous, cow, from the Indo-European root * gwou–. “It is said that Bootes invented the plough to enable mankind to better till the ground and as such, perhaps, immortalizes the transition from a nomadic life to settled agriculture in the ancient world. The bears, tied to the Polar Axis, are pulling a plough behind them, tilling the heavenly fields “in order that the rotations of the heavens should never cease”. Bootes is the cultivator or Ploughman who drives the Bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor around the Pole Star, Polaris.
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