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Common Names of 88 Constellations and Their Origin

The Origin and Legend of the Name of Constellation 88

Aries constellation

Legend has it that Atamas, the Bohemian king of ancient Greece, had a prince, friso. King Atamas listened to the slander of an evil woman he loved named enoch and wanted to kill Prince friso. Fortunately, this plot was known by Hermes, the messenger of the gods. He took a flying sheep covered with golden hair and sent the prince to Corcas in the distance. The king there treated the prince warmly and married his daughter to him.

In order to thank God for saving his life, friso slaughtered the flying sheep and gave it to Zeus, the main god. Zeus listed the flying sheep with outstanding achievements among the stars and let it shine in the night sky. This is the origin of Aries.

Sagittarius

Kay Long Xing is the smartest and wisest person in urs, Kenda. He is the first person in Greek legend to know the constellations and teach people how to observe them. Another story tells that Khyron was endowed with immortal life when he was created, but once, when Hercules was fighting Sidura, a long snake, Khyron came to help, but was accidentally shot by Hercules with a long snake venom arrow.

Although he won't die, he endured extreme pain. Later, Khyron asked the gods to let him get rid of this endless pain. He was willing to exchange his life to release Prometheus, the Titan who stole the flame from the gods and gave it to mankind. He was tied to a stone and an eagle greedily devoured his constantly regenerating liver. Finally, Zeus finally agreed to let Khyron die. Zeus wanted to put Khyron in heaven to commemorate him, but later, because the northern sky was full of constellations, he had to put him in the southern sky.

Aquarius constellation

Herb, the goddess of youth, is the daughter of Zeus and Sheila, and serves as a maid for pouring wine at the feast of the gods. One day, when he was young, Hebe remembered that he had an attractive appearance, but he could not find a partner because of the priest. He accidentally knocked over the water bottle and was dismissed from the Ministry. Zeus felt very depressed because no one could take his place in the work.

One day, Apollo came to Troy and saw the handsome prince Generos playing with the maids. He thought that there should be such a handsome prince on earth, so he returned to the celestial world and reported to Zeus. Zeus felt incredible and wanted to witness the Prince of Troy.

When Zeus saw Prince Troy, he missed him every day. One day, Prince Troy acted alone, and Zeus turned into an eagle and brought him back to the divine world. The prince misses his hometown and family very much. At the same time, the king of Troy missed the prince very much. I wonder where he has gone. Zeus was ashamed and couldn't bear the prince to lose weight day by day, so he had a dream for the king, told him about the prince's situation in the divine world, told him to go back to Troy to see the king, and then went back to the divine world to pour wine.

So Ganymeros became the only mortal in the divine world. After his death, Zeus lifted him to the sky with a water bottle and turned him into a water bottle.

Coronation in the north

Legend has it that when Dionysus Dionysus married Princess Ariadne, Dionysus gave the bride a beautiful crown with crystal jewels as a wedding gift. Soon the princess died of illness, and Dionysus, who was always happy, was very sad because of the loss of his beloved wife. He threw the crown into the air, and the crown rose higher and higher, and finally rose to the list of heavy stars. Until now, we can still find this beautiful crown in the sky.

Flying seat

The two brightest stars in the fly constellation, Bee III and Bee I, are like a pair of bright little eyes of bees, flashing together, which is particularly cute. Therefore, in 1603, when German amateur astronomer Bayer delineated this constellation, he named it "Apis". But by 1763, the French astronomer Llakaj showed on the map that bees had turned into flies, which was called "South Masca", making it correspond to North Masca.

The northern musk constellation was on the back of Aries, but it was later cancelled, so the southern musk constellation was changed to the musk constellation. Because bees are more pleasing than flies after all, until the star map compiled by 180 1, this constellation still drew a bee.

jackals and wolves—cruel and evil people

Legend has it that this jackal was the father of callisto who was later turned into a bear. In order to test the divinity of Zeus, he sacrificed human flesh to the gods, so he was punished by the gods and turned him into a jackal. This is the origin of the jackal.

hydra

Legend has it that Xu Dela is a fierce and terrible water snake with nine snake heads. This monster can spit poison gas from nine mouths and feed on wild animals and people. In order to destroy it, the great hero Hercules and his friend Olaus came to the place where Xu Dela lived. Hercules swung a big stick and broke nine heads one by one, but after breaking nine basilisk heads, nine new heads immediately grew.

Later, Hercules found a way for Olaus to burn the new snake head with burning branches. Finally, he killed the snakehead, buried the snakehead's body in the ground, and pressed a boulder on it. Xu Dela, the water snake, was eliminated. Zeus, the god of gods, praised Hercules for this achievement, and lifted the water snake he conquered to the sky and became Ophiuchus.