Within the depth-psychology and mythological corpus assembled in this library, Orion occupies a complex symbolic position as a figure of the primordial hunter — earth-born, giant, erotically violent, and ultimately astral. Kerényi provides the most sustained treatment, situating Orion’s paradoxical origin (divine semen buried in a bull’s hide, a myth of zoe linking him to the birth of bees and the season presided over by Sirius) within a broader inquiry into Dionysian and pre-Dionysian strata of Greek religion. Nagy reads Orion through a structural-comparative lens, arguing that the myth originally fused abduction, death, and preservation in a single figure, and that the distribution of these functions across Eos and Artemis represents a mythological fragmentation traceable by Vedic analogy. Hesiod provides the primary textual substrate: the Catalogues and pseudo-Eratosthenean fragments establish the hunting-compact with Artemis, the scorpion-death, and the catasterism authorized by Zeus. Rohde notes Orion in passing as one of the shades encountered in the Underworld tradition, while Kerényi’s index in the Dionysos volume cross-references Orion’s birth, constellation, and scorpion-association as nodes in a myth-complex tied to Sirius, the dog-star, and the seasonal ambivalence of the opora. The figure thus concentrates questions of cosmological time-reckoning, the limits of heroic hubris before the natural order, and the psychic archetype of the slain-and-stellified hunter.