Thread (longish): Why was Orion seen by Ancient Greeks as a "the greatest hunter" armed with a cudgel (club)? And why do Bulgarians call Orion "cudgels (clubs)" and why do Serbs call Orion "Baba's (grandmother's) sticks" and all the stars "Baba's (grandmother's) cudgels (clubs)"?

Well to answer all these questions we have to look at Orionids, the most prolific meteor shower observable from Earth. It occurs during the period October 2nd – November 7th but it peaks between October 20th and October 22nd.

The meteors that streak across the sky are some of the fastest and brightest among meteor showers, because the Earth is hitting a stream of particles almost head on. They also often have long tails and exhibit distinctive colors before they burn up.

The meteorites are particles which come from Comet 1P/Halley, better known as Halley's Comet...

This famous comet swings by Earth every 75 to 76 years, and as it makes its way around the sun, it leaves behind a trail of comet debris which continues to move along the comet's orbit but a bit slower than the comet itself...

Earth's orbit around the sun crosses paths with the debris orbit twice a year: in May when we see it as the Eta Aquarids meteor shower and in October and November when we see it as the Orionids meteor shower...

The Orionids are named after the direction from which they appear to radiate, which is near the constellation Orion (The Hunter). The meteor shower's radiant (or point of origin) will be near Orion's club, slightly north of his left shoulder (the star Betelgeuse).

Ok, so this is where the "sticks" from Serbian name for Orion "Baba's (grandmother's) sticks" comes from...Orionid meteors do look like bright sticks...

They also look like arrows, so this is where the Orion bowman image comes from. He who shoots the arrows of light (meteors from the Orionid shower)...