8 Constellation Stories

Orion There has been many different myths about Orion, one of them is this: He was the son of Hyrieus who was a handsome giant and hunter. He was the lover of Artemis. He was a great hunter and proclaimed to the gods that he could kill any animal alive. Upon hearing this Artemis' brother got jealous and challenged him to kill a great scorpion that lived on an island. Orion took apollo’s challenge …

…the bull was, she climbed onto his back and grabbed its gold horns. Slowly the bull got closer and closer to the water and when it got close to the beach it ran into the water and started to swim to Crete. When Europa and the bull got to Crete, Zeus turned back into his own self. Seeing that he could not marry Europa, Zeus gave her to Asterius, the king of Crete, to marry.