Short Story Of Orion Analysis

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I chose the constellation of Orion because I 've heard a lot about it and am interested. Orion is the constellation 's brightest stars. So stands out in the night sky and is the best known. It has its origins in Greek mythology. The hunter Orion was killed by the bite of a scorpion. In heaven is their flight, so that Orion disappears in the west just before Scorpio appears in the east. The myth of this is: Orion was the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Gaia, Mother Earth. He had an extraordinary beauty and grew so that it became a true giant. So huge it was, he could walk on the bottom of the deep sea waters without ever cover him from the shoulders up. After many adventures, Orion went to the island of Chios, where he soon fell in love …show more content…

Orion saw it, could not contain his ironic smile at the ridiculousness of that insignificant adversary sent by Gea. The giant trusted too much and the scorpion stung him in the foot with his powerful poisonous stinger. The terrible poison spread through the blood of the hunter and he fell to the ground dying medium. When he saw that death was imminent, he called for help and pleaded revenge to the almighty Zeus, and that death was stalking him inglorious for a character of his temper. He asked the supreme god he was placed in the heavens by his two faithful hunting dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor) and hare (Lepus), for men, when will look up at the dark starry nights, recall their adventures as a hunter. He also asked Zeus domain tempests, storms, ice and wind, to be able to avenge their mother earth (Gaea) .The god Orion was condescending and attended his pleas. The earth shook, and since then it has done to this day every time Orion has been appearing on the sky, as it has always brought the wind, cold, storms, ice, snow and frost …show more content…

My invented myth is: Long ago, a hunter named Orion went to the forest to hunt your dinner and suddenly heard a scream coming from a tower saying -help, help-Hunter went to find this mysterious person came to a tower and saw a heavenly creature screamed Zeus, father, come and ayúdame- Orion asked - what happens - the person answered - Nothing like mortal Orion incumbent insisted and told the person - okay, I 'm daughter of Zeus, locked me here for my powers because they believed it was a threat to free should eliminate creature protecting my castle - Orion entered the tower and as it was an excellent hunter I remove all of freeing the daughter of Zeus and in gratitude made him a