Greek and Roman myths about constellations

The myth of Aries (3.2 1-4. 19)

It's a story from "Looking for golden fleece" written by the Greek poet apollonius in Rhode Island in the 3rd century BC.

Mas, King Arthur of Greece, married Princess Ina of Thebes, but the cruel Ina wanted to murder Prince fleek Sotheby's so that his son could inherit the throne in the future.

Ina concentrated the seeds of all the grains in China, secretly cooked them and distributed them to the people. As a result, the grain could not grow naturally, which led to famine in the whole country. He also colluded with the messengers of the temple, pretending that the gods were angry and had to sacrifice Prince Frixos to quell the famine.

The king finally listened to Yina's trick. At the moment when the prince was about to be sent to the altar, the angel hamish accepted the request of the prince's biological mother, and sent a ram with golden wool and wings from the sky to turn the prince away from the altar. We crossed the Da Daniil Strait together and finally landed in Koelsch on the Black Sea.

To thank him for his salvation, fleek Sotheby's dedicated Aries to Zeus, the king of gods, and golden fleece to King Keltsch.

The myth of Taurus (4.20-5.20)

In the third century BC, in Alexander's time, the poet Moschus wrote poems.

One spring morning, while observing the earth, Zeus suddenly found a group of stunning girls dancing and playing on the grass by the sea. One of them was the princess of Sidon, king of Phoenicia. The girl named Europa is the best, and Zeus is deeply attracted by her.

At this time, naughty Cupid shot Cupid's arrow into Zeus' heart, which made him fall madly in love with Europa, so Zeus became a beautiful and docile bull to approach her. The bull has a silver ring on its forehead, and its horn is in the shape of a crescent moon. It smells good and makes a wonderful sound in its mouth, which makes Europa curiously touch and ride on this huge bull.

However, this bull jumped up wildly and took Europa at full speed. When they crossed the ocean, Poseidon also appeared to clear the way for them. At this time, the frightened Europa learned the identity of the bull and asked for forgiveness.

Zeus immediately confided his love to Europa and took Europa to Crete, his birthplace. Invite the gods of the four seasons to dress up for Europa and hold a grand wedding.

The myth of Gemini (5.2 1-6.2 1)

Lida, the princess of the Spartan king, gave birth to two twins at the same time. One pair of men and women were named Casta and Kristen Nestra, and the other pair was born after Zeus turned into a swan and approached her. A man and a woman are named Pollux and Helen.

Kastar and Pollux are very popular and emotional since childhood. Casta is good at riding and training horses, often hunting together and taking part in adventure activities, while Polucus is good at boxing. Once there was a conflict with Aidas and Linsas for some reason, and Aidas killed Casta; Zeus killed Aidas with lightning in a rage, and Bo Looks also killed Lindsay in a fierce battle.

Pollux looked at the dead brother's body and sadly asked the gods to let him die with Kasda. Zeus pitied Polox's brotherly feelings, so he gave Casta half his life. From then on, the two will never be separated, and they will live in hell for the rest of their lives and in the Temple of Heaven in Olympus for the rest of their lives.

Others say that they are the gods of mankind and the protectors of sailors.

The myth of cancer (6.22-7.22)

The romantic Zeus fell in love with the Greek general's wife, myna, and approached her posing as her husband when the general went out to war. Later, myna gave birth to a son for Zeus, named Hercules, who was born with divine power.

Hera was angry because of her husband Zeus' betrayal, and she didn't want to retaliate and curse Heracles all the time. Finally, Hercules lost his mind because of magic, and personally killed his wife and three children.

After Hercules woke up, he accepted the advice of his good friend Caesar. Instead of committing suicide, he decided to purify himself with asceticism. Hercules humbly asked King Juris of Masini to accept him as a slave, and the king gave him twelve almost impossible ascetic tasks. The second task is to kill Hydra, the nine-headed monster of Lerner Lake.

While Hercules was fighting with Hydra, Hera secretly sent a big crab to help Hydra. Cancer tightly clamps Hercules' foot with pliers, making it unable to move; But Hercules finally killed the cancer with a stick and completed the impossible task.

The myth of Leo (7.23-8.22)

This is another almost impossible task that happened to Hercules, Greece's greatest hero, just like the cancer myth.

In retaliation for Zeus' affair, Hera cursed Hercules and made him bear the sin of being spurned all his life. The painful Hercules accepted the instructions of the Oracle of the priestess of Delphi and asked Julius, the king of Masini, to accept him as a slave. The king ordered him to complete twelve terrible ascetic tasks, the first of which was to kill a lion named Nimia.

Hercules struggled with this giant lion for a long time because of its thick skin and invulnerability. Finally, Hercules hit the lion's nose with his divine power and strangled it when it was dizzy. Hercules cut off the paws of the giant lion, peeled off the lion's skin to make a shirt, made the lion's head into a helmet, carried it on his shoulders, and returned to Masini with honor.

The myth of Virgo (8.23-9.22)

This myth first appeared in Homer's hymns and described the story about Demeter, the goddess of agriculture.

One of the earth goddesses, Timmet, the agricultural goddess in charge of grain, has an only daughter named Doctor Feng, who is the goddess of youth in charge of fountains. Mother and daughter live together, bringing rich agricultural harvest to mankind.

Zeus's brother is Prut, the keeper of hell. He has a crush on the beautiful doctor style. So one day, he drove a black chariot, forcibly took away Doctor Feng, and became the queen of dark kingdom.

When Timmert found out that his daughter was missing, he wandered around anxiously just to find out her whereabouts. I don't want to farm any more, so all the fields are beginning to become barren.

Finally, Apollo told Demeter the whole story. Demeter, who was worried and helpless, expressed his dissatisfaction in the most negative way: this was to make the earth face an unprecedented famine disaster.

Seeing the seriousness of the situation, Zeus sent messengers to ask Prut to release Bosch Phoenix. However, Prut, with an ugly face and a very low self-esteem, how could she easily let go of the beautiful doctor style? So Prut designed Dr. Feng to eat four pomegranates, so that Dr. Feng returned to hades for four months every year.

The kind Timmet accepted this fact and brought the earth back to life; However, every time Boshifeng returned to hades for four months, he couldn't help falling into the darkness of missing his daughter and couldn't farm. So the earth has four distinct seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The myth of Libra (9.23- 10.22)

When Prometheus stole the fire from the sky and sent it to the world, Zeus asked all the gods to mold the image of Pandora, who is said to be the first woman on earth, with clay, and brought her to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus.

Pandora was blessed by the gods, making her the most perfect woman; Pandora refused to listen to Prometheus' advice and married Prometheus' brother Epimetheus.

Pandora has a so-called Pandora's Box. It is said that the box contains the worst curse in the world.

Pandora is so happy that she always feels that something is missing in her life. Curious, she finally opened the box one day, so all diseases, wars and disasters ... became horrible illusions and flew to every corner of the world, and the glorious golden age of mankind came to an end.

The myth of Scorpio (10.23-11.20)

Orion, the son of Poseidon, is tall and handsome and good at hunting. He fell in love with Merope, the daughter of King Teos. In order to show their skills, Orion captured all the wild animals on Leno Island and presented them to Merope. However, King Teos still refused to give his daughter to Orion.

One day, Orian violated Merope because he was drunk. The king angrily asked Dionysus, the god of wine, to severely punish Orian. So Dionysus made Orion drunk, and the king took the opportunity to gouge out Orion's eyes. After waking up, Orion fled to the eastern part of Remnos Island in the dark, begging Apollo's help to make him regain his light.

After fleeing to Crete, Orion became a servant of the hunting god Di Anna. Unexpectedly, Diana fell in love with Orion because she was jealous of Eurola, the goddess of the dawn, so she killed Orion, put him in the sky and became an Orion.

Olian once said: No prey can escape from his palm. His arrogance angered Hera, the queen of heaven, who sent a poisonous scorpion hiding in the dark to attack Orion; Unexpectedly, Orion was stung by a scorpion for a while, and the poison fell to the ground, but it just trampled the scorpion to death. This is why Scorpio and Orion will never meet.

The myth of Sagittarius (11.21-12.21)

Legend has it that there are a group of monsters on the earth who are neither human nor god, half man and half horse, called Sandor Group; They are fierce and cruel, like wild animals.

One of them, Chiron, is different from the others. He is kind by nature and is famous for his wisdom and immortality, which may have a lot to do with his Zeus lineage. Qilun also learned a lot from Apollo and Di Anna, so many gods gave their children to Qilun for training and teaching.

On one occasion, the Greek hero Hercules broke the taboo of Sandul Group and fought with them. In the chaos, the poisoned arrow accidentally injured Qi Lun on the sidelines. Knowing that the injury could not be healed, Qi Lun was determined to ask Zeus to allow him to take death as a relief and pass on his immortal body to Prometheus, who was punished by human suffering and would fall into the dark abyss instead of him.

This enabled Prometheus to get rid of the shackles of Zeus and regain his freedom.

The myth of Capricorn (12.22-1.19)

Paine was the son of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. He looks strange. He has goat horns, hooves and beard, but he has no feet. He is almost half an animal. However, he is a very good musician.

Paine fell in love with the goddess Sirink, but she avoided Paine because she hated his appearance. Silink turned himself into a bundle of reeds, but Paine made a flute out of it. As Parn passed through the Yuan Ye, the beautiful flute spread everywhere; Divines is often attracted by her music and listens everywhere.

Paine is often invited to parties because he can bring joy to the gods. Once, he was invited to play for the gods, because of his special efforts, the wonderful flute echoed between heaven and earth; Unexpectedly, the sound of the flute alarmed Zeus' old enemy, the monster Tifeng.

The wind rushed into the banquet, and wherever it went, the gods fled; Paine also turned into a fish and jumped into the Nile in a hurry. Unexpectedly, because I was so nervous, only my lower body turned into a fishtail, while my upper body was still like a goat.

The myth of water bottle (1.20-2. 18)

Hesse is the daughter of Zeus and his sister Shearer. Her father assigned her to serve and pour wine at the banquet of the gods on Mount Olympus. Later, because Hesse was betrothed to Hercules by Shearer, the position of sommelier remained vacant, which broke Zeus' brain.

Later, Zeus finally took a fancy to the handsome young Trojan prince Ganymede. He has blond hair, snow-white skin, red lips and white teeth, and is called a handsome man on earth. The gods also agreed that he would be a sommelier, so Zeus sent messengers to invite him; But Ganymede's sexual life is so free and unrestrained, how can he be restrained under his knees? So I didn't say anything.

Zeus flew into a rage when he knew it, turned into an eagle and personally grabbed Ganymede up the mountain. Ganymede had no choice but to passively resist. He often creates some situations at banquets so that all the gods don't like him. Finally, Ganymede took the opportunity to escape.

How could Zeus, who knew everything, let Ganymede escape? Angry Zeus not only took him back, but also forced him to be a waiter forever. The water in the Aquarius became the source of wisdom for the gods.

The myth of Pisces (2. 19-3.20)

Venus is the goddess of pearls in charge of love and beauty. Even a smile can tempt people and make them lose their wisdom. However, Zeus was dissatisfied with her pride and ordered her to marry fastow, the Vulcan. However, because Hull fastow was too busy, Venus was moved by loneliness, fell in love with Mars, the god of war, and gave birth to Cupid, also known as Cupid.

One day, when Paine, the god of agriculture and animal husbandry, played a wonderful Yue Xian for Mount Olympus on the banks of the Nile, he brought the monster into the wind and scattered the gods. Venus and Cupid are walking by the river at the moment. When they see the wind coming, they are frightened.

Venus was worried about Cupid's accident, so she tore off a piece of clothes and tied it to Cupid's feet as a ribbon, and tied the other end to herself. At the same time, it turned into two fish and jumped into the water one after another.

This is the origin of the myth of Pisces.