Phaethon was however not easily discouraged. The Sun tried to dissuade Phaethon because not even the gods could control the Sun's fiery chariot over its very difficult daily journey. Prior to the rise of scientific explanations, ancient myths from many cultures explained the Sun's daily westward motion across the sky with the Sun god's daily chariot ride across the sky. Phaethon asked to drive the Sun's chariot across the sky one day. To prove it he promised to grant him anything he wished and swore an oath by the Styx that he would keep the promise. The Sun assured Phaethon that he was the boy's father. One day Phaethon went to visit the Sun to ask. His mother told Phaethon that he was the son of the Sun, but the young man had to be sure. In Greek mythology Phaethon was the son of a mortal woman, Clymene, and the Sun god. The scorpion did not sting Phaethon and kill him directly, but it nevertheless caused his death. Phaethon Orion was however not the only ancient mythological hero to fall victim to the scorpion. They were both given an honored place in the sky as the constellations Orion and Scorpius, where the scorpion perpetually chases but never catches the hunter. Scorpius and Orion In ancient Greek mythology, A scorpion sting felled Orion, the mighty hunter and warrior. In Greek mythology Phaethon is indirectly killed by Scorpius, the scorpion, when he tries to drive the Sun's chariot across the sky. Phaethon & the Chariot of the Sun The Constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion, Claims a Victim The hero also killed various demons and restored peace. The top split off into the sky becoming the Milky Way. Riding a red crested cock and blowing fearful sounds on a conch-shell, he thrust his spear into the White Mountain. He was both the god of war and the general of the gods. Skanda's aliases included Kumara, Karttikeya, and Guha. Skanda was the six headed son of Shiva, the god of ascetics and cosmic destruction. Skanda and the Mahabharata In the Mahabharata, a later epic and the major Hindu epic, Orion was the warrior, Skanda. In this latter version Dawn was actively seductive by taking the form of a nymph. In this version of the myth only Prajapati pursued Dawn, but in a later alternate version, Prajapati and his four sons, Fire, Wind, Sun, and Moon all pursue her. They are roughly equidistant from Orion's belt but on opposite sides of the belt. Extend Orion's belt to find Sirius and Aldeberan representing the deer piercer and Rohini. Soma was both the god's ambrosia and the moon. The three arrow (belt) stars are Agni, Soma, and Visnu representing the shaft, head, and point of the arrow. Prajapati is represented by Orion, but the row of three stars that is considered his belt in western tradition is the arrow that pierced him. The brightest star in Taurus, Aldeberan, was called Rohini and represents the female deer. Sirius, the brightest star in the sky and now thought of as one of Orion's hunting dogs, was the deer piercer who shot the arrow. The deer or the deer's head is the modern constellation, Capricorn. They assembled a malevolent deity, Rudra, and told him to shoot the incestuous stag with an arrow. The other gods did not approve of this incestuous relationship. The relationship is incestuous.ĭawn took the form of a doe, so Prajapati took the form of a stag to seduce her. In an interesting parallel with one of the Greek myths about Orion, Prajapati has a relationship with the dawn or in some versions the sky. In this ancient tradition the constellation, Orion, is the god Prajapati, one of the creator gods. Prajapati and the Rg Veda The oldest Hindu myths are those found in the Rg Veda, which is the oldest known document in any Indo-European language and was passed down orally for several centuries before it was written. India & Constellation Orion Myths Ancient Hindu Mythology About the Hunter and Nearby Constellations In ancient Hindu mythology, the constellation Orion was the god Prajapati, who had an incestuous relationship with the dawn.
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