Meri Meet my fairy souls,
It is Nina,
You are watching FaerieChamber channel and welcome back to the Zodiac Mids And today I'm going to talk to you about the Scorpio constellation of Scorpio that was known in the ancient world.
It was known by the Babylonians and by the Egyptians Egyptians they connected the Scorpio constellation to the goddess Selk and And Babylonians and the Greeks they knew this constellation already in the late 6th century so This is an old story.
First of all all the Greek people who watch this if I pronounced these names totally wrong I apologize Native Finnish speaker here.
I can only say F.
Karisto and Kalimer Yes,
This star is connected to one of my favorite Greek goddesses that is Artemis who rocks This story is about a giant Orion and how he was born and what kind of life he lived So it starts from the town of Huria Where there was a local hero called Hurios and this was the time when all these pagan gods they could disguise themselves as Humans and they walked among humans and this is very very common in all myths around the world This is a universal myth that gods could disguise themselves as humans you can find this from Gothic mythology,
Greek mythology Finnish mythology,
African mythology everywhere But it's really interesting So there was two people who came to Hurios and asked for a child there These were Zeus and Poseidon nonetheless and Hermes Hurios he entertained his three guests and they really enjoyed this company and Hurios he sacrificed one of his oxes for his guests to eat and soon these guys they find out that Hurios He really wanted to have a son,
But he was childless So what they did they took this pile of meat of ox dead ox and the gods they urinated to the ox and they told Hurios to bury the meat and nine months later a gigantic infant Found its way out from the ground and it was Orion the giant Orion is also known as the great hunter His legend is connected to Iceland of Crete and also to this license of Aegean Sea like he's connected to the sea very much because in a way he is son of all three gods He's son of Zeus,
His son of Poseidon and he's son of Hermes.
So he's like a very powerful creature and he's especially connected to Poseidon There are lots of stories about Orion and according to one legend He because he had this strong connection to Poseidon.
He could walk upon water and another thing that was later adopted to another religions There's one myth that he could walk upon the seabed and his head would be like below the above the waves one day Orion arrived to Chios which was a place that was ruled by Onopion who was a son of Dionysus the god of wine.
His island it was very fertile and they were like grape wines growing everywhere But it happened that Orion and Onopion they did not get along.
There was huge fight between them.
According to some legends Orion was pursuing Onopion's wife According to other legend he was pursuing his daughter Merope.
Onopion He did something that was very common for his father to do He got Orion very drunk and then he packed his eyes and then Orion He woke up from the seashore and he was blind He managed to find his way to a forge of a blacksmith and then he managed to convince this blacksmith called Cetallion to guide him.
So this young guy he climbed to his shoulders and made him guide him towards the rising Sun and then the moment when the sun raised his eyes,
Orion he got his eyesight back and then he went on his way to destroy Onopion,
But Onopion he was saved by Poseidon who managed to guide him into a subterranean chamber where Orion could not reach.
Then we come to the connection between Artemis and Orion.
There are many versions of this myth.
There is one story that does that Orion he was part of the hunter group of Artemis because Artemis was the hunter goddess and she respected his hunting kills and one day he tried to rape her and she killed him.
There is another story that Orion he fell in love with a human and gods really resented this and they sent Artemis to kill him In 200 BC Istros the Greek writer he wrote his own version of the story and according to him Artemis was in love with Orion,
But Apollo the twin brother of Artemis killed Orion because he did not want his sister to be together with the giant But this myth it comes from Hellenistic age which itself was very patriarchal and from a time period when Greek women didn't really have that many rights and the more further you go in Greek mythology the more clear it comes that Artemis only had fairs with women Then we go back in time to the early poem of Hesiod and he tells a poem that has astronomical meaning and it's a story of Orion how he got killed by a Scorpio.
This is a story from Crete and according to that Artemis who often had male companions while hunting without having any kind of erotic relationship relationships with them she was hunting with Orion and Orion was boasting that he could kill every single creature on the earth but the earth Earth-mother I suppose Gaia she heard this and she sent a giant Scorpio Which bit Orion and killed him Scorpio is a water sign and it is ruled by Mars Scorpios they can be very self-motivated Sometimes they can be very sinister and very aggressive.
That is the story of Scorpio Thank you so much for watching guys give this video a thumbs up if you liked it subscribe to my channel to hear more stories from Greek mythology and around the world Share this video with your friends and family if you liked it,
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