Poets sometimes personify the star, placing it in a mythological context. It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry. The Latin word corresponding to Greek Phosphoros is Lucifer.
He was often presented in poetry as heralding the dawn. Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx". The Greek name for this planet was variously Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or Heosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer"). In Roman folklore, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. Lucifer (the morning star) represented as a winged child pouring light from a jar. A similar name used by the Roman poet Catullus for the planet in its evening aspect is "Noctifer" (Night-Bringer). In Greco-Roman civilization, it was often personified and considered a god and in some versions considered a son of Aurora (the Dawn).
Īs a name for the planet in its morning aspect, "Lucifer" (Light-Bringer) is a proper noun and is capitalized in English. The translators of this version took the word from the Latin Vulgate, which translated הֵילֵל by the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), meaning "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing". Īs a name for the Devil in Christian theology, the more common meaning in English, "Lucifer" is the rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל (transliteration: hêlēl pronunciation: hay-lale) in Isaiah given in the King James Version of the Bible. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage where the Ancient Greek figure's name was historically used ( Isaiah 14:12) as " morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper noun, Lucifer. Originally stemming from a son of the personified dawn, the goddess Aurora, in Roman mythology, the entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil.
Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. Planet Venus in alignment with Mercury (above) and the Moon (below)
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