Fairy tales of the twelve constellations
Aries myth
Atamas, king of Tephria, got married with Princess Niepera, and they gave birth to twins, but the king had an affair with Princess Jinova of Tebe. When Princess Jinova had a child of her own, she decided to kill the only twin left by the former Princess Niepera (the elder brother is Prica Si and the younger sister is Herey). She bribed the fortune teller to complain to the king: if the children born to the former princess are not given to Zeus as sacrifices, the gods will be furious and there will be famine this year. When Niepera knew it, he asked Zeus for help, so Zeus sent the golden Aries in the sky to take the two brothers and sisters to the sky. On the other hand, because the speed was too fast, my sister fell into the sea, and Aries looked back at her sister and guarded her brother, thus forming today's Aries.
Taurus legend
One day, Zeus, the god of heaven, wandered around the world, and when he passed a certain country, he suddenly saw that the princess of this country was very beautiful, which made Zeus unconsciously see God. After returning to heaven, he still remembered this beautiful princess.
In the country where the princess belongs, there is a large and beautiful pasture where countless cows are grazing and playing. The princess often comes to this pasture to play with these lovely cows.
On a sunny morning, the princess appeared in the pasture as usual. While she was having fun with the cattle, she suddenly found that among the cattle, there was a cow who could sing. Its singing was very pleasant, like nature, which attracted the princess to walk towards him unconsciously.
As soon as the princess saw this cow, she fell in love with him. Because he not only sings perfectly, but also looks just as good. Just as the princess slowly leaned against the cow and sang with him, the cow suddenly picked up the princess and flew to the sky.
After a long flight, the cow finally stopped in a beautiful land, and then turned into a human being to express its love for the princess. It turned out that this cow was the incarnation of Zeus, the god of heaven. Because she couldn't help thinking about the princess day and night, she decided to confess to her.
The beautiful princess accepted Zeus' love, and they went back to heaven to live together. Zeus took the princess's name Europa as the name of the land to commemorate the place of confession. That land is today's European continent. The mythical story of Taurus is a story of love depicted by the first of the twelve constellations, which breaks the wrong impression that Taurus lacks romance.
Gemini Myth
Princess Rita gave birth to many lovely children, including two brothers, who are not only very close, but also almost identical in appearance, which makes people think that they are twins.
Actually, among these two brothers, the elder brother is the son of Princess Rita and Zeus, the god, and the younger brother is the half-brother of King Basta, and the elder brother is a "god" and has eternal life, while the younger brother is an ordinary person.
One day, Greece was attacked by a huge wild boar, and the princes called many warriors to hunt down the wild boar. When the wild boar was successfully solved, the warriors fought for each other's merits and forged hatred between them.
On a lively occasion in a market, warriors who look at each other and are not pleasing to the eye met unexpectedly, and of course there was a quarrel. In the quarrel, someone started to fight, so the scene became out of control, and many people were injured or even killed in this killing. Unfortunately, the younger brother of the two princes was also killed in this chaos.
My brother, who has always been very close to this brother, couldn't accept the news that his brother had died, and kept crying with his body in his arms, hoping that his brother could come back to life and that they could enjoy the happy days of brotherhood together.
So, my brother went back to heaven and asked his father Zeus to bring his brother back to life. But Zeus told him that his brother was just an ordinary man and would have died. If he really wanted to resurrect his brother, he had to give him the rest of his life.
My affectionate brother, of course, immediately agreed without hesitation. From then on, the two brothers can live happily together again.
Cancer Myth
The sensitive and affectionate Cancer is a symbol of motherhood, with her arms around her chest, showing the mother's nature of protecting her children.
However, in another symbolic sense, the baby in the arms represents the helpless and fragile self, while the surrounding arms illustrate the strong self-protection significance of Cancer.
A story in Greek mythology emphasizes the unique aggressiveness of Cancer.
We have to start with Hewuli, the son of Zeus and other mortals. Sheila wanted to kill him again and again: he was also the greatest hero in Greece and the strongest man in the world. There is nothing he can't do. Even the gods conquered the giant Terran with his help. Of course, He Wuli also made great contributions to the gods. One day, he came to the kingdom of Messini and was about to receive a heroic welcome. However, the king was instructed by Sheila to give him a difficult problem to kill Hydra who lived in the swamp. It was very difficult, because every time a head was cut off, countless heads would be born immediately.
He Wuli thought of a way to burn the snakeheads with fire, so he easily solved eight snakeheads. Seeing that there was only one left, Sheila was furious in the sky. "Did you fail again this time?" She is unwilling! So a huge crab was called from the sea to hinder He Wuli, and the crab stretched out a powerful pair of crabs to hold He Wuli's feet, but everyone knows that He Wuli is the strongest person in the world! This cancer finally died under his brute force.
Sheila failed again, but she felt sorry for the desperate sacrifice of Cancer. In order to appreciate the loyalty of Cancer, even if she didn't succeed, Sheila put it in the sky and became a Cancer.
Leo myth
Facing the challenger, the king's demeanor of going straight and fighting alone is a symbol of Leo. It is said that the origin of Leo is related to He Wuli.
Hewuli is the illegitimate child of Zeus and mortals. He was born with incomparable divine power, so Sheila was jealous. When He Wuli was a baby, he put two giant snakes in the cradle, hoping to kill He Wuli. Unexpectedly, He Wuli smiled and killed them, and he was regarded as "the greatest hero of mankind" since childhood.
Sheila certainly won't give up killing Hewuli because of a failure. She deliberately made Hewuli go crazy and wait to beat his wife. Hewuli was very regretful and sad when she woke up, and decided to wash away her sins by asceticism. He came to Messini and asked the king to assign him a task. Who knew that the king was instructed by Sheila, and he was given twelve tasks that were as difficult as heaven, and must be completed within twelve days. One of them was to kill a man-eating lion.
This lion usually lives in the forest. He Wuli went into the forest to look for him, but the forest was silent. All the animals, birds, deer and squirrels were eaten clean by the lion. When he was tired, He Wuli began to doze off. At this moment, the giant lion came out with his head held high from a cave with a double hole. He Wuli opened his eyes and saw, Oh, my God! Man-eating lions are five times as big as ordinary lions, and their bodies are covered with animal blood, which adds a bit of horror. He Wuli first shot him with an arrow, and then hit him with a wooden stick. It was useless. The giant lion was invulnerable. In the end, He Wuli had to hand-to-hand combat with the lion. The process was very tragic, but in the end he strangled the lion with brute force.
Although the man-eating lion died, Sheila threw the man-eating lion into the air to commemorate his courage to fight with He Wuli, and became a Leo.
Virgo Myth
Demeter, the agricultural god who manages grain on earth and the mother of the Greek earth, has a beautiful only daughter, Posephine, who is the brilliant goddess of spring. As long as she steps lightly, all the places will be full of delicate and charming flowers. One day, she and her companions were picking flowers on a meadow in the valley. Suddenly, she saw a silver daffodil, and its sweet smell floated in the air. Posephine thought, "It is more beautiful than any of my flowers!" " The beauty was radiant, so she sneaked away from her companions and reached for the flowers. Suddenly, a hole opened in the ground, and a carriage was pulled by two dark horses and rushed out of the ground. It turned out to be Wang Haidi of the underworld. He loved Posephine, the "most beautiful spring god", and set a trick to take her away.
Posephine's cry for help echoed between the valley and the ocean. Of course, it also reached his mother, Demeter, who was very sad! She left the grain to be harvested and flew across Qian Shan to find her daughter.
Without Mother Earth, seeds will no longer germinate, and the fertile land will not produce clusters of wheat ears, and human beings will starve to death. Seeing this situation, Zeus had to order the keeper to release Posephine, and the keeper had to obey Zeus, but secretly tricked Posephine into giving her a fruit before leaving. How did Posephine know that once she ate the fruit, she would not be able to live on earth and was doomed to return to the dark and stinking hell?
Zeus had no choice but to say, "You will spend only a quarter of the year with Posephine". From then on, as long as the earth is covered with frost and nothing grows, people will know that it is because Insephine has gone to hell again. Virgo symbolizes the beauty and purity of Posephine, the god of spring, and the grain of wheat raised by her mother has also become something she holds in her hand. Even so, she is no longer that carefree girl playing on the grass. Although she will be resurrected every spring, she is still bright and moving, but the stench and terrible atmosphere of hell will always follow her.
Libra Myth
In ancient times, both human beings and gods lived on the ground and lived a peaceful and happy life together. However, human beings became more and more intelligent, and not only learned to build houses and pave roads, but also learned bad habits such as intrigue and deception, which made many immortals unbearable and left human beings to live in heaven.
But among the gods, there is a goddess who represents justice. She has not lost heart in human nature, and still lives with human beings. However, human beings are getting worse and worse, and there are wars and killing each other. In the end, even the goddess of justice couldn't stand it, and she resolutely moved back to the sky to live, but this doesn't mean that she has completely despaired of human beings. She still thinks that human beings will realize one day and return to the good and pure nature of the past.
The Goddess of Justice, who returned to the sky, met Poseidon by chance one day. Poseidon laughed at her foolish trust in human beings, and they immediately had a heated debate. During the debate, the goddess of justice thought that Poseidon had insulted her and had to apologize to him. Poseidon didn't think so. It was said that the two men were deadlocked and sued Zeus.
This situation makes Zeus feel very embarrassed, because the goddess is his daughter and Poseidon is his younger brother, so it is not acceptable to take sides. Just when Zeus felt very worried about this, the queen made a timely suggestion, asking Poseidon to compete with the goddess of justice, and whoever lost would apologize to the other side.
The venue of the competition is located in the square of Heaven, and Poseidon will start first. Poseidon waved his stick at the wall, and beautiful water immediately flowed out of the crack. Then the goddess of justice turned into a tree, which has a reddish-brown trunk, green leaves and golden olives. Most importantly, anyone who looks at this tree feels love and peace. At the end of the game, Poseidon convinced himself to give up.
in order to commemorate this result, Zeus threw the scale he carried with him into the sky and became the present Libra.
Scorpio myth
In ancient Greece, Orion, the son of Poseidon, was a famous fighter. He was not only a beautiful teenager, but also a man with strong physique, so he was quite popular with women. He is also quite proud of himself, and once boasted that there is no better person in the world than me! The goddess Hera was very unhappy when she heard this, so she sent a poisonous Scorpio to catch Orion and exile him to his original place. Scorpio sneaks up to the unsuspecting Orion and stabs his heel with its poisonous needle. Before Orion can respond, he dies. Because of this feat, there is Scorpio in the sky. Even now, as long as Scorpio rises in the east, Orion quickly hides and sinks to the western horizon.
Sagittarius myth
Once upon a time, there was a half-man, half-horse race, which was a savage race with a human upper body and a horse lower body. However, among a group of cruel people, only Kennon, the son of Cronus, the god of harvest, is a wise centaur, who not only knows music and divination, but also is a teacher of Hercules. One day, when Hercules clashed with his people, he fled to Ken's farmhouse after being hunted. Angry Hercules aimed at the centaur and fired arrows frequently, but he didn't know that the teacher Ken Nong was among them and shot him in the foot. Because the end of the arrow was poisoned by the monster Sidorah, Kennon was in great pain, and because he was immortal, he could not be liberated from the pain. Prometheus, the giant god, abolished his immortality and let him die peacefully, becoming a Sagittarius in the sky.
Capricorn myth
Paine, the god of wild mountains, became the patron saint of shepherds as a shepherd. His appearance is that his upper body is human and his lower body is Capricorn, so he is not very good. But it is full of vigor and vitality, and loves singing and dancing. One day, he happened to meet the fairy Qiulinksi by the river, and when he wanted to follow her at first sight, Qiulinksi fled in panic. Paine pursued after him, and the chased Julinks prayed to God and suddenly disappeared, only to see a reed swaying in the wind. Disappointed, Paine took off the reed and made a flute to play the song of missing. One day, while the gods who gave a banquet by the river were listening to Paine playing, suddenly the monster Jiefan appeared, and the gods immediately turned into various animals to escape. Paine also turned into a fish and jumped into the water in a hurry, but only the lower body was fish-shaped and strange.
Aquarius myth
In Troy, there lived a handsome prince. His handsome appearance is inferior to that of all the beautiful women in Liancheng.
One day, the gods will hold a banquet, but a girl who poured wine for Zeus was injured, so no one can do the job instead. So Zeus was very upset and didn't know how to tell. Seeing that Zeus was so upset, the gods wanted to help find someone to replace him, but Zeus was not very satisfied with the girls introduced.
One day, Apollo came to Troy and saw the handsome prince playing with the ladies. He thought that there was such a handsome prince on earth, so Apollo returned to the divine world and reported what he had seen in Troy to Zeus. Zeus felt incredible and wanted to see the Prince of Troy with his own eyes.
When Zeus saw the Prince of Troy, he missed him every day, so Zeus had an evil idea brewing in his heart.
Zeus came to Troy again. When the Prince of Troy acted alone, Zeus turned into a big eagle. When the Prince noticed, he grabbed the prince and returned to the divine world.
The Prince of Troy came to the divine world, and Zeus asked him to pour wine for Zeus instead of the injured girl, so the prince had no choice but to stay in the divine world.