Halcyon

A halcyon ( /ˈhælsiən/) is a mythical bird—often identified as a kingfisher—said to breed in a floating nest at sea during the winter solstice, during which time it charms the wind and waves into calm. The term originates from the Greek myth of Alcyone. In popular use, it can also mean to harken back to an earlier time, remembered as idyllic.

Halcyon may also refer to:

Birds

• Halcyon (genus), a type of bird
• Tree kingfisher, a family of birds (Halcyonidae) containing the above genus

Games

• Halcyon (role-playing game), an indie role-playing game
• Halcyon (console), a video-game console
• Mega Man Legends, known in Japan as Rockman DASH Adventurous Spirit of Steel (DASH stands for "Digouter's Adventure Story in Halcyon Days")
• Halcyon-Class ships, warships in the Halo video game series. The Pillar of Autumn is one such ship.

Literature

• Halcyon (dialogue), a short dialogue attributed to Plato
• Halcyon (Stargate Atlantis novel), a novel by James Swallow
• Halcyon, collection of poems by Gabriele d'Annunzio, published in 1903
• Halcyon, the fictional capital city of the Thran civilization in the Magic: The Gathering universe
• Halcyon, a graphic novel written by Marc Guggenheim, Tara Butters, Ryan Bodenheim & Mark Englert, published by Image Comics

Music

Albums

• Halcyon Digest, a 2010 album by American band Deerhunter
• Halcyon (Best Of), a 2005 album by Orbital
• Halcyon, a 1996 album by British band Solstice
• The Halcyon Days, by American singer/songwriter Jonathan McQuitty
• The Halcyon Days, a 1996 album by Steve Roach, Stephen Kent and Kenneth Newby
• Halcyon Days (Bruce Hornsby album)
• Halcyon Days, an album by BWO (2006)

Songs

• "Halcyon Genesis", a song by InMe from the album The Pride
• "Halcyon" (Chicane song), a 2000 song
• "Halcyon" (Orbital song), a 1992 song
• "Halcyon" (Delphic song), a 2010 song from the album Acolyte
• "Halcyon", a song by The Acacia Strain from 3750
• "Halcyon", a song by ATB from Dedicated
• "Halcyon", a song by Andy Moor
• "Halcyon (Beautiful Days)", a song by Mono from Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
• "Halcyon (Intro)", a song by Enter Shikari from Common Dreads
• "Halcyon: The Heavy Silence: In Silent Rain", a song on ...And Oceans' 2002 album Cypher
• "Halcyon", a song on Jon Hopkins's 2001 album Opalescent
• "Halcyon Days", a song on Siobhán Donaghy's 2007 album Ghosts.
• "Here's To The Halcyon", an Old 97'] song, from the 2008 album Blame It on Gravity
• "Halcyon Harbor", a background song that plays on the stage "Sailor's Rest" in the video game Soul Calibur
• "The Halcyon Days", by The Tea Party from Triptych
• "Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)", by Local H from Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
  • "Halcion Daze", an earlier version of the same song, from '99–'00 Demos
• "Halcyon Days", the first movement of the suite The Three Elizabeths by Eric Coates
• "Halcyon Daze", a song by Hidden in Plain View from Life in Dreaming
• "Halcyon Days", a song by the English composer Henry Purcell, written for the semi-opera The Tempest (circa 1695)
• "Halcyon Days", a song by the band Tages
• "Halcyon Days", a song by the band Model Engine
• "Halcyon Days", a song by the band Sikh on their 2007 release, "One More Piece"
• "Halcyon Days", a song by The Spring Standards on their 2010 release, "Would Things Be Different"
• "Halcyon" by Canon Blue
• "Halcyon", by Crystal Castles (band)

Ships

• HMS Halcyon, at least five ships of the British Royal Navy
• Halcyon class minesweeper, a type of British Royal Navy minesweeper
• Halcyon 23, a type of sailing ship built in England

Other

• John "Halcyon" Styn, John Styn
• Halcyon, California, U.S.
• Halcyon Castle, a castle in Travancore, Kerala, India
• Halcyon Gallery, a group of three art galleries in the United Kingdom
• Halcyon Hot Springs, British Columbia or just Halcyon, a former resort in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada
• Halcyon Molecular, a company that develops genome sequencing technologies
• Halcyon Mountain, a mountain northeast of Halcyon Hot Springs, British Columbia
• Halcyon House, a Georgian style home in Washington, D.C., U.S.
• Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, a company that monitors performance of computer systems
• The Halcyon Company, a film studio
• The Halcyon Days of Symmetry, A Sun City Girls Cloaven Theatre VHS video collage

See also

• Halcion or triazolam, an insomnia drug
• Alcyone (disambiguation)
• Halcyon Days (disambiguation)