"Vega, who is called Nelarsik, is like the moon, the brother of the sun. As to how it got into the sky a similar legend [as in the Orphan Boy] is told with regard to the moon. It does great service to the human race, indicating the time when it is dark, just as the sun does when it is light ... " (Arctic Sky)

"Wega, less correctly Vega ... Sayce identifies Wega, in Babylonian astronomy, with Dilgan, the Messenger of Light, a name also applied to other stars; and Brown writes of it:

At one time Vega was the Pole-star called in Akkadian Tir-anna ('Life of Heaven'), and in Assyrian Dayan-same ('Judge of Heaven'), as having the highest seat therein;

but fourteen millenniums have passed since Wega occupied that position!

The Chinese included it with ε and ζ in their Chih Neu, the Spinning Damsel, or Weaving Sister, at one end of the Magpies' Bridge over the Milky Way, - Aquila, their Cow Herdsman, being at the other ...

Hewitt says that in Egypt it was Ma'at, the Vulture-star, when it marked the pole, - this was 12000 to 10000 BC (!), - and Lockyer, that it was the orientation point of some of the temples at Denderah long antecedent to the time when γ Draconis and α Ursae Majoris were so used, - probably 7000 BC, - one of the oldest dates claimed by him in connection with Egyptian temple worship." (Allen)