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The
song Southern
Cross, written by Rick Curtis, Michael Curtis and Steven
Stills, and performed by American rock band Crosby, Stills and
Nash, was a tribute to this constellation.
A weapon in the
NamcoRPG, Tales of
Symphonia, is named after this constellation. Also an
organization of angels within the game is known as Cruxis.
In Star Ocean 3, by
Tri-Ace, Adray has a
symbology skill called Southern Cross.
Cygnus is also mentioned by the
German Synth-pop band Alphaville in the song "Carol Masters" on the
Afternoons in Utopia Album. Cygnus is mentioned in the
context of having tenderly kissed the deserts.
Cygnus was the
name of a spaceship in the 1979 Walt Disney film, The Black Hole,
apparently because the constellation Cygnus is thought to contain a
black hole.
A character in Mega Man Star Force, Cygnus Wing,
is based on the constellation.
Adrienne Rich wrote
the poem, "Orion", in which she describes how she viewed him
differently from childhood to middle age. The Romanian poet
Geo Bogza devoted a
poem to Orion. The opening lines of the poem "The Star-Splitter" by
Robert Frost
accurately describe the rising of Orion: "You know Orion always
comes up sideways. / Throwing a leg up over our fence of
mountains".
Orion is a protector in Jimmy Buffett's book The Jolly
Mon.
Orion was the star constellation that was first
recognized symbol, initially mistaken as a character from an
ancient or alien language, on the star gate device in the film
Stargate.
Orion was the name given to the
Aurora-class cruiser that the Atlantis crew commandeered late in
the second season of Stargate:Atlantis.
Orion was the
name of the cat in the movie Men in Black, when the term
'Orion's Belt' was repeatedly mistaken for the constellation; the
belt referred to the cat's collar.
In the Star Trek fictional
universe, Orion is home to a civilization of green-skin humanoids
that practice a slave trade using their women. The Orion Syndicate is an
interplanetary organized crime ring within this society.
In the
movie Blade
Runner, the Replicant portrayed by Rutger Hauer tells Harrison Ford's character
that he has "seen things you people wouldn't believe, attack ships
on fire off the shoulder of Orion."
"Orion" is the ultimate goal
in the "Master of Orion" series for DOS and PC
"Orion the Hunter" is a comic book produced by Blue Water
Productions.
"Orion" is the name chosen by NASA for the Crew
Exploration Vehicle (CEV), as officially announced on
August 22,
2006, to be built by
Lockheed
Martin, as announced on August 31, 2006. A NASA spacecraft program from the 1960's was
named "Gemini" after the constellation
adjacent to Orion that is associated with The Twins (with that
spacecraft having a two-person crew).
"Orion"
is the title of a instrumental piece by the heavy metal band
Metallica, which
appeared on their 1986 album Master of Puppets.
The
Sword of Orion is the name of a composition of music by
composer Vangelis on
his 1976 album, Albedo 0.39.
"Orion" is the name of a
song by Jethro Tull, on the album
Stormwatch.
"The Arms of Orion" is the name of the song
from the Batman Soundtrack (1989) performed by Prince and
Sheena
Easton. Additionally, it is a band from West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The song
"Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco, describes the alignment of
billiard balls by saying "I see Orion and say nothing".
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