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According to this summary, Orion was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, a daughter of Minos, King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he walked to the island of Chios where he got drunk and raped Merope, daughter of Oenopion, the ruler there. In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away.
The Hungarian mythographer Károly Kerényi, one of the founders of the modern study of mythology, wrote about Merope in Gods of the Greeks. Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant born outside his mother. [6] He placed great stress on the variant in which Merope is the wife of Oenopion.
Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. It consists of the three bright stars Zeta (Alnitak), Epsilon (Alnilam), and Delta (Mintaka). Alnitak is around 800 light years away from earth and is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun and shines with magnitude 1.8; much of its radiation is in the ultraviolet ...
In Greek mythology, Hyrieus (/ ˈ h ɪ r i ˌ uː s /; Ancient Greek: Ὑριεύς) was the eponym of Hyria in Boeotia, where he dwelt and where Orion (see below) was born; [1] some sources though place him either in Thrace or on Chios. [2] Most accounts speak of him as a king, although Ovid and Nonnus portray him as a peasant. [3] [4]
Menippe and Metioche were the daughters of Orion by an unnamed mother; although their mother is not given a name, in other sources the first wife of Orion is called Side. [3] After Orion was killed by Artemis , the girls were raised by their mother while Athena taught them the art of weaving and Aphrodite gave them beauty.
Sah was a god in Ancient Egyptian religion, representing a constellation that encompassed the stars in Orion and Lepus, [1] as well as stars found in some neighbouring modern constellations. [2] [3] His consort was Sopdet known by the ancient Greek name as Sothis, [4] the goddess of the star Sirius.
The Orion correlation theory was put forward by Robert Bauval, and mentioned that Mintaka, the dimmest and most westerly of the stars making up Orion's belt, was offset slightly from the others. Bauval then made a connection between the layout of the three main stars in Orion's belt and the layout of the three main pyramids in the Giza pyramid ...
The myth is seen by Jungian psychologist Wolfgang Giegerich as a symbol of spiritual transformation and/or enlightenment. [32] Actaeon often symbolizes a cuckold, as when he is turned into a stag, he becomes "horned". [33] This is alluded to in Shakespeare's Merry Wives, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and others. [34] [35]