Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.nlang.greek Subject: Re: Orion and the Scorpion (myth) Message-ID: <430@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 16:07:22 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.430 Posted: Mon Oct 29 16:07:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 19:52:20 EST References: <703@utastro.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 21 Xref: sun net.astro:201 net.nlang.greek:102 > The story goes that Orion boasted that he was such a great hunter he > could kill all the animals on the surface of the Earth. The goddess of > Earth was alarmed at this statement. She thought that the world would > be sad and lonely without its many kinds of animals. So she sent a > giant scorpion to sting and kill Orion -- and after a brief battle, the > scorpion did just that. Afterwards the two were placed in the sky -- > but in such a way that they would never meet. There is more to this myth: a great mythical doctor, Asclepius, actually revived Orion. Pluto, seeing this as an infringement on HIS territory had the gods strike both of them dead; but, for their exceptional skills both Orion and Asclepius were put in the sky. Near Orion is Canis Major, the Big Dog, who is Orion's hunting companion. At Orion's feet is a dim Lepus (Rabbit), in hiding. -- "... and it's coming right here, to beautiful" Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam [ This is just me talking. ]