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The constellation Virgo has various origins in different mythologies. In most myths, Virgo is depicted as a virgin maiden [7] associated with wheat. [8] In Greek and Roman mythology, Virgo is related to Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest and autumn, or her daughter Persephone, queen of the Underworld and goddess of spring. [9]
Virgo as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 Depiction of Virgo, c.1000 In the Babylonian MUL.APIN (c. 10th century BC), part of this constellation was known as "The Furrow", representing the goddess Shala and her ear of grain.
Demeter is assigned the zodiac constellation Virgo, the Virgin, by Marcus Manilius in his 1st-century Roman work Astronomicon. In art, the constellation Virgo holds Spica, a sheaf of wheat in her hand and sits beside constellation Leo the Lion. [26] In Arcadia, she was known as "Black Demeter".
The three Earth signs — Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn — are, well, earthier than their intuitive water sign counterparts, not to mention intellectual air signs and rambunctious fire signs.
Erigone was placed in the stars as the constellation Virgo by Dionysus or Zeus who pitied her misfortune. [ 3 ] According to Ovid, Dionysus "deceived Erigone with false grapes", [ 4 ] that is, assumed the shape of a grape cluster to approach and seduce her.
When Sherlock Holmes is about to crack a case, he withdraws into his thought-realm to dissect every tiny detail he’s tracked: a grass stain on a suit jacket, a hairline crack on a cell phone ...
This tattoo design incorporates various Virgo symbols, like wheat and the earth, into each point on the sign’s constellation. “In ancient Egyptian mythology, the wheat harvest began as the Sun ...
Flavia (or Valeria) Vera, a virgo vestalis maxima arcis Albanae, chief Vestal Virgin of the Alban arx (citadel). [102] Caecilia Philete, a senior virgin (virgo maior) of Laurentum-Lavinium, [103] as commemorated by her father, Q. Caecilius Papion. The title maior means at Lavinium the Vestals were only two. Saufeia Alexandria, Virgo Vestalis ...