Lyra

, site na ;  akpọ:  )[1] bụ obere ìgwè kpakpando.  Ọ bụ otu n'ime 48 nke onye na-enyocha mbara igwe nke narị afọ nke abụọ Ptolemy depụtara, ma bụrụ otu n'ime ụyọkọ kpakpando 88 ọgbara ọhụrụ nke International Astronomical Union ghọtara.  A na-egosipụtakarị Lyra na maapụ kpakpando dị ka udele ma ọ bụ ugo na-ebu ude, ya mere a na-akpọkarị Lyra Vultur Cadens ma ọ bụ Aquila Cadens ("Falling Vulture"[2] ma ọ bụ "Ugo na-ada ada"), n'otu n'otu.  Malite n'ebe ugwu, Lyra dị n'akụkụ Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, na Cygnus.  Lyra fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ n'elu ugwu dị oke ọkụ n'ebe ugwu obere oge ka etiti abalị gachara na mmalite oge okpomọkụ.  Site na equator ruo ihe dị ka 40th parallel south, a na-ahụ ya ka ọ dị ala na mbara igwe dị n'ebe ugwu n'otu oge ahụ (dịka oyi) ọnwa..

Vega, mgbasa na Lyra, bụ otu n'ime ọtụtụ na- ndị na-ekiri na mbara igwe, ma ebute nke asterism Summer Triangle a ma ama.  Beta Lyrae bụ ihe atụ nke klaisa ọnụọgụ ọnụọgụ abụọ mara dị ka Beta Lyrae variables .  Kpakpando ọnụọgụ abụọ ndị a dị nso na ibe ha nke na ha na-aghọ akwa akwa na ihe na-esi n'otu n'otu gaa na nke ọzọ.  Epsilon Lyrae, nke a na-akpọkarị dị ka Double Double, bụ usoro dị ka anya.  Lyra na-anabatakwa mgbanaka Nebula, nke abụọ mgbaàmà na nke kacha mara amara na mbara ala nebula. .
áká_èkpè|thumb|300x300px|Enwere ike ịhụ Lyra n'aka nri nke c.  Maapụ kpakpando 1825 sitere na Urania's Mirror.
Na ndị ifo ndị Gris, Lyra na- ማጣሪያ anya ụbọ Orpheus .  E kwuru na ụda Orpheus dị nnọọ ukwuu nke na egwu ihe ndị na-ahụ maka ndụ dị ka nkume ịma mma.  N'ịbanye Jason na Argonauts, egvu ya nwera ike ekiri olu nke Sirens dị ize ndụ, bụ ndị na-abụ abụ na-nna-echeta nye ndị Argonauts. 

There are two competing myths relating to the death of Orpheus. According to Eratosthenes, Orpheus failed to make a necessary sacrifice to Dionysus due to his regard for Apollo as the supreme deity instead. Dionysus then sent his followers to rip Orpheus apart. Ovid tells a rather different story, saying that women, in retribution for Orpheus's rejection of marriage offers, ganged up and threw stones and spears. At first, his music charmed them as well, but eventually their numbers and clamor overwhelmed his music and he was hit by the spears. Both myths then state that his lyre was placed in the sky by Zeus and Orpheus's bones were buried by the muses.

Vega and its surrounding stars are also treated as a constellation in other cultures. The area corresponding to Lyra was seen by the Arabs as a vulture or an eagle diving with folded wings. In Wales, Lyra is known as King Arthur's Harp (*Talyn Arthur*), and King David's harp. The Persian Hafiz called it the Lyre of Zurah.
It has been called the Manger of the Infant Saviour, Praesepe Salvatoris. In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation. Lyra was known as Urcuchillay by the Incas and was worshipped as an animal deity.

Lyra is bordered by Vulpecula to the south, Hercules to the west, Draco to the north, and Cygnus to the east. Covering 286.5 square degrees, it ranks 52nd of the 88 modern constellations in size. It appears prominently in the northern sky during the Northern Hemisphere's summer, and the whole constellation is visible for at least part of the year to observers north of latitude 42°S. Its main asterism consists of six stars, and 73 stars in total are brighter than magnitude 6.5. The constellation's boundaries, as set by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a 17-sided polygon. In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between  and , while the declination coordinates are between  and . The International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted the three-letter abbreviation "Lyr" for the constellation in 1922.