The origin of Sagittarius myth and legend

"How many times, memories have painted life into a circle, and we have turned in the same place countless times, and we can't escape. I have always wanted to go back to the place where I first met. If I can choose again, I think I can love more simply. "

Then, the next 88 constellations bring the origin of Sagittarius myth and legend and the knowledge of deep space celestial bodies.

Constellation myth

Hero's arrow

In myths and legends, Prometheus stole skyfire and came to the world to benefit mankind with skyfire, so he was respected by people. Later, he was unfairly punished by Zeus, the god of heaven, and was nailed to the cliff at the top of the Caucasus. Zeus also sent a vulture to torture him every day. One day, Hercules, the great hero, came to the foot of Caucasus Mountain and saw Prometheus crucified on a cliff and tortured by vultures. He is determined to save him. Hercules shot the vulture with a bow and arrow, rescued Prometheus and made him climb the holy mountain of Olympus again. Later, in order to praise Hercules' achievement, the gods shot the vulture into the sky with his arrow, which is the origin of Sagittarius.

Cupid's arrow

There is also a legend that this arrow is a golden arrow shot by little love god Elos at lovers. Elos is a boy born of Ares and Aphrodite. He has lovely wings and a bow and arrow in his hand. It is said that Elos has two kinds of arrows of love: the golden arrow and the silver arrow. Being shot by his golden arrow will produce love and make people fall in love; If you are shot by his silver arrow, you will refuse love.

Turn lovers against each other.

Deep sky object

Globular cluster M7 1: located between left flag 5 (Sagittarius γ) and left flag 3 (Sagittarius δ).

This classification is controversial. Some astronomers think M7 1 is a very loose globular cluster, while others think it is a dense open cluster. The current research tends to think that M7 1 is a globular cluster. Distance to Earth 13000 light years, apparent magnitude 8.3. This cluster was discovered in 1746 by the French astronomer Philippe Lois de Chesau.