Orion's sixth brightest star, Saiph is identified as from the Arabic, saif al-jabbar, meaning "sword of the enormous". Orion was later also called al-jabbar, "the large", from adoption of the Greek constellation. In the Pyramid Texts, from the 24th and twenty third centuries BC, Sah is one of many gods whose type the dead pharaoh is alleged to absorb the afterlife. Because Orion rises earlier than Sirius,...