Phosphorus (morning star)

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Phosphorus is the god of the planet <a href="/facts/Venus/pADnueP6">Venus</a> in its appearance as the Morning Star. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is "Eosphorus" (Ancient Greek: Ἑωσφόρος, romanized: Heōsphoros), which means "dawn-bringer". The term "eosphorus" is sometimes met in English. As an adjective, the word "phosphorus" is applied in the sense of "light-bringing" (for instance, the dawn, the god <a href="/facts/Dionysus/4kBSl2Kp">Dionysus</a>, pine torches and the day) and "torch-bearing" as an epithet of several gods and goddesses, especially of <a href="/facts/Hecate/cW3jg6RU">Hecate</a> but also of <a href="/facts/Artemis/bocCzux6">Artemis</a>/<a href="/facts/Diana_(mythology)/RrBXyb0F">Diana</a> and <a href="/facts/Hephaestus/Jqqvt8eB">Hephaestus</a>. Seasonally, Venus is the "light bringer" in the northern hemisphere, appearing most brightly in December (an optical illusion due to shorter days), signalling the "rebirth" of longer days as winter wanes.

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