Luceafar is the name of the morning star (http://www.johnpratt.com/items/astronomy/eve_morn.html) (the planet Venus) which in Romanian folklore is associated with Demons but also hints to the Greek Titan Hyperion. Mihai Eminescu wrote a poem named Luceafarul (http://www.estcomp.ro/eminescu/simonaf.html) detailing some of the attributes the popular belief associated to the morning star. Venus can refer to many things: Venus: the second closest planet to the Sun in our solar system Venus (mythology): the Roman goddess of love The planet Venus in Astrology is supposed to influence love and in Medical astrology is supposed to influence the digestive system. ... In the Homers Iliad and Odyssey the sun god is called Helios Hyperion, Sun High-one. But in the Odyssey, Hesiods Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the sun is once in each work called Hyperonides son of Hyperion and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate... Mihai Eminescu Mihai Eminescu a. ...

The name is of ancient origin, coming originally from the Middle East, where the ancient name for Venus (Lucifer) is thought to be the origin of the Christian use of the name for a fallen archangel, possibly owing to a misinterpretation of a passage from the Biblical book of Isaiah ("How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!") Isaiah (Hebrew ישׁעיהו Yeshayahu or Yəša‘ăyāhû) is a book of the Hebrew Bible, Judaisms Tanakh, known to Christianity as the Old Testament. ...