In the past, Lyra was often represented on star maps as a vulture or an eagle carrying a lyre, either enclosed in its wings, or in its beak.

In Greek mythology, Lyra was associated with the myth of Orpheus, the musician who was killed by the Bacchantes.

Lyra was known as Urcuchillay by the Incas and was worshipped as an animal deity.

In the poem Aniara by the Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, the space ship Aniara was travelling at high speed towards the stars of Lyra after having been shipwrecked by collisions with asteroids.

USS Lyra ( AK-101 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.

Lyra viol music was also commonly written in tablature.

To the ancient Greeks, the constellation Lyra was formed from the harp of Orpheus, with Vega as its handle.

The original synthesiser setup as envisioned by Moog was called the Constellation, and consisted of three instruments-the polyphonic synthesiser, called the Apollo, a monophonic lead synthesizer called the Lyra, and a bass-pedal synthesiser, called the Taurus.

** Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon ; this was a one-day festival that was held in honor of the celestial love affair with deities associated with the star Altair ( the male cow-herd deity ) in the constellation Aquila and the star Vega ( the female weaver maid deity ) in the constellation Lyra.

The constellation was also known as Vultur volans ( the flying vulture ) to the Romans, not to be confused with Vultur cadens which was their name for Lyra.

He took part in revising the Dutch translation of the Old Testament in 1633, and after his death a book by him, called the Lyra Davidis, was published, which sought to explain the principles of Hebrew metre, and which created some controversy at the time, having been opposed by Louis Cappel.

She is excited to start picking up on a pattern in the readings, and Pullman tells us that this discovery of a pattern is the " second thing she said to Will next day in the Botanic Garden ", implying that the next day was Midsummer's Day, when she and Will would be sitting on the same bench in their separate worlds, and that there was something else, presumably that she loved him, that Lyra said to Will ( and perhaps would say every year ) before telling him of her reading.

In the 1999 unabridged audio production, Lyra was performed by the voiceover actress Jo Wyatt ( as Joanna Wyatt ).

In a 2003 radio adaptation, Lyra was voiced by child actress Lulu Popplewell.

Meanwhile, the witch Serafina Pekkala, who was separated from Lyra during a battle in Northern Lights, is searching for her.

) The Constellation was never actually released as such ; the Apollo was greatly refined and ultimately released as the Moog Polymoog Synthesizer ; the Lyra — which Keith Emerson's roadie Will Alexander describes as " A Minimoog on steroids "— was never commercially produced.

Dust was previously known ( in Lyra Belacqua's universe ) as Rusakov particles after their discoverer, Boris Mikhailovitch Rusakov.

Bowed instruments descendants of the Byzantine bowed lyra ( lūrā ) have continued to be played in post-Byzantine regions until the present day with few changes, for example the Calabrian Lira in Italy, the Cretan Lyra, the Gadulka in Bulgaria, and the Pontian lyra ( Πολίτικη λύρα ) in Istanbul, Turkey.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

In January 2010 the Kepler Mission announced the discovery of the additional planets Kepler-7b, Kepler-8b, and three planets around Kepler-9 are expected to be the first of many discovered by the mission, which has a significant part of its field of view in Lyra.

In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation.

In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character is coming from Vega, the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.

Rashi's explanations of the Chumash were also cited extensively in Postillae Perpetuae by Nicholas de Lyra ( 1292 – 1340 ), a French Franciscan.

Roosevelt's crew consisted of his 24-year-old son Kermit, Colonel Rondon, a naturalist, George K. Cherrie, sent by the American Museum of Natural History, Brazilian Lieutenant Joao Lyra, team physician Dr. José Antonio Cajazeira, and 16 skilled paddlers and porters ( called camaradas in Portuguese ).

The first known mention of the name ' viol d ' amore ' appeared in John Evelyn's Diary ( 20 November 1679 ): " for its swetenesse & novelty the Viol d ' Amore of 5 wyre-strings, plaid on with a bow, being but an ordinary violin, play'd on Lyra way by a German, than which I never heard a sweeter Instrument or more surprizing ..."

* Maria Farantouri & Rainer Kirchmann — Sun & Time: Songs by Theodorakis ( Lyra )

Megademos, demos with more content, usually split into several parts, appeared in the beginning of 90's, with the advent of the The Lyra II by ESI.

In His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the two protagonist Lyra and Will find themselves lost amongst many worlds, and travel them looking for the other.

Greek figures were produced during the 1970s by a company called Lyra.

Lyra spends most of her time socializing with other children of the city, sometimes harmoniously, frequently mock-violently, and often by way of avoiding school-work.

Letters written by Lyra included in the companion book Once Upon a Time in the North reveal that Lyra is researching her dissertation for a M. Phil in Economic History, indicating her to be continuing to study during her twenties.

This star lies at a vertex of a widely spaced asterism called the Summer Triangle, which consists of the zero-magnitude stars Vega in the constellation Lyra and Altair in Aquila, plus the first magnitude star Deneb in Cygnus.

Lyra's inevitable betrayal can be interpreted as two separate occasions and either occurs when Lyra leads her friend Roger to Lord Asriel on Svalbard at the end of the first book, in the chapter titled " Betrayal ", or when Lyra leaves her dæmon on the shore of the lake in the Land of the Dead.

In the first letter, Lyra also mentions that she is continuing to study the alethiometer.

In The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of the first book, Lyra is portrayed by twelve-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, who won the role after beating out 10, 000 other hopeful candidates.

The writers first met because of this single, when Jobim called Lyra " the other side of the record ".

* Philip D. W. Krey and Lesley Smith, editors, Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture ( fifteen essays by various authors: the first modern study )

Wizard was the first to be apprehended by Lyra and She-Hulk, brought to Bruce Banner, and imprisoned.

The most popular of the Lyra series was the Lyra PDP-2860, which was also one of the first portable media players capable of playing MPEG-4 encoded videos.

As the second novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the book has also formed part of a radio drama on BBC Radio 4 starring Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel and Lulu Popplewell as Lyra, and as a two-part, six-hour performance for London's Royal National Theatre in December 2003, running until March 2004, and a second run between November 2004 and April 2005.