About this star:

A star in the Dolphin, Delphinus. Rotanev is "Venator" backwards.

The strange names alpha (Sualocin) and beta (Rotanev) first appeared for these stars in the Palermo Catalogue of 1814, and long were a mystery to all. It was discovered their origin by reversing the component letters, and so reading Nicolaus Venator, the Latinized form of Niccolo Cacciatore, the name of the assistant and successor of the Italian astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi! Alpha is Sualocin = Nicolaus; beta is Rotanev = Venator.

But Miss Rolleston, in her singular book Mazzaroth, considered in some quarters [bibical] as of authority, wrote that they are derived, alpha (Sualocin) from the Arabic Scalooin, swift (as the flow of water) and beta from the Syriac and Chaldee Rotaneb, or Rotaneu, swiftly running (as water in the trough). And Allen says "For no part of this scholarly (!) statement does there seem to be the least foundation."

Hindus located in Delphinus the 22d nakshatra, Cravishtha, "Most Favorable", also called Dhanishtha, "Richest"; the Vasus, "Bright or Good Ones", being the regents of this asterism, which was figured as a Drum or Tabor [source of English tambourine - Delphinus gives a love of music]: beta marking the junction with Catabishaj. [Influences of 22nd Hindu mansion: favorable for commencing work of an impermanent or moving character, rich, generous, liberal, fond of music].

The Arabic title for Delphinus was Al Ka'ud, "the Riding Camel", the early Christians — the Melkite and Nestorian sects — considered it the Cross of Jesus transferred to the skies after his crucifixion; but in Kazwini's day the learned of Arabia called alpha (Sualocin), beta (Rotanev), gamma, and delta Al 'Ukud, "the Pearls or Precious Stones" adorning Al Salib, by which title the common people knew this Cross; the star epsilon, towards the tail, being Al 'Amud al Salib, the Pillar of the Cross.

But the Arabian astronomers adopted the Greek figure as their Dulfim, which one of their chroniclers described as "a marine animal friendly to man, attendant upon ships to save the drowning sailors."

The constellation of Delphinus is personified as Amphitrite, the goddess of the sea, because the dolphin induced her to become the wife of Neptune, and Delphinus was known as Persuasor Amphitrites, as well as Neptunus and Triton. (Allen).

Influence of the constellation:

According to Ptolemy, Delphinus is like Saturn and Mars [in fact the bright stars Rotanev and Sualocin are Mercury-Jupiter]. It gives a simple appearance, cheerfulness, dissembling and duplicity, love of hunting, and sport in general but little happiness [little happiness and love of hunting might not apply to Rotanev and Sualocin, because they are not of Saturn/Mars nature]. There is a fondness for pleasure, ecclesiastical matters and travel, but danger of suffering from ingratitude. (Robson).