The attitude of Orion in the sky is a striking one. The warrior is represented as holding a club in the right hand, and a skin or shield in the left. His left foot is raised high as if he were climbing a steep ascent, he seems to be endeavouring to force his way up into the zodiac, and--as Longfellow expresses it--to be beating the forehead of the Bull. His right leg is not shown below the knee, for immediately beneath him is the little constellation of the Hare, by the early Arabs sometimes called, _Al Kursiyy al Jabbār_, "the Chair of the Giant," from its position. Behind Orion are the two Dogs, each constellation distinguished by a very brilliant star; the Greater Dog, by _Sirius_, the brightest star in the heavens; the Lesser Dog, by _Procyon_, i.e. the "Dog's Forerunner." Not far above Orion, on the shoulder of the Bull, is the little cluster of the Pleiades. There are--as we have seen--only three passages where _Kīmah_, literally "the cluster" or "company,"--the group we know as the Pleiades,--is mentioned in Scripture; and in each case it is associated with _Kĕsīl_, "the fool,"--Orion. Several Greek poets give us the same association, likening the stars to "rock-pigeons, flying from the Hunter Orion." And Hesiod in his _Works and Days_ writes-- "Do not to plough forget, When the Seven Virgins, and Orion, set: Thus an advantage always shall appear, In ev'ry labour of the various year. If o'er your mind prevails the love of gain, And tempts you to the dangers of the main, Yet in her harbour safe the vessel keep, When strong Orion chases to the deep The Virgin stars." There is a suggestion of intense irony in this position of Orion amongst the other constellations. He is trampling on the Hare--most timid of creatures; he is climbing up into the zodiac to chase the little company of the Pleiades--be they seven doves or seven maidens--and he is thwarted even in this unheroic attempt by the determined attitude of the guardian Bull. A similar irony is seen in the Hebrew name for the constellation. The "mighty Hunter," the great hero whom the Babylonians had deified and made their supreme god, the Hebrews regarded as the "fool," the "impious rebel." Since Orion is Nimrod, that is Merodach, there is small wonder that _Kĕsīl_ was not recognized as his name in Babylonia.[238:1] The attitude of Orion--attempting to force his way upward into the zodiac--and the identification of Merodach with him, gives emphasis to Isaiah's reproach, many centuries later, against the king of Babylon, the successor of Merodach-- "Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High."