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Persephone was born so deformed that Rhea ran away from her frightened, and did not breastfeed Persephone. [56] Zeus then mates with Persephone, who gives birth to Dionysus. She later stays in her mother's house, guarded by the Curetes. Rhea-Demeter prophecies that Persephone will marry Apollo.
Symbols for the classical planets, zodiac signs, aspects, lots, and the lunar nodes appear in the medieval Byzantine codices in which many ancient horoscopes were preserved. [1] In the original papyri of these Greek horoscopes, there was a circle with the glyph representing shine ( ) for the Sun; and a crescent for the Moon.
The Arabic manuscript Kitab al-Bulhan, by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani, compiled in the late 14th century, deals with astrology, astronomy and geomancy. [53] Cancer is represented as a crayfish. Uranometria, published in 1603 by the German astronomer Johann Bayer; notable for being the first work to depict the complete celestial sphere. [54]
[17] [18] [19] Hera then sent Argus Panoptes, a giant who had 100 eyes, to watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus. According to Ovid, he did so by first lulling him to sleep by playing the panpipes and telling stories. [20] Zeus freed Io, still in the form of a heifer.
An attested cult epithet of Zeus is Aleios Zeus, or "Zeus the Sun," from the Doric form of Helios' name. [401] The inscribed base of Mammia's dedication to Helios and Zeus Meilichios, dating from the fourth or third century BC, is a fairly and unusually early evidence of the conjoint worship of Helios and Zeus. [ 402 ]
Wronged by the love affair, Zeus' wife Hera in a jealous rage had transformed Callisto into a bear. [11] Arcas is the eponym of Arcadia , where Maia was born. [ 4 ] The story of Callisto and Arcas, like that of the Pleiades, is an aition for a stellar formation, the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor , the Great and Little Bear.