To my surprise and glee, I learned this morning — courtesy of web comic xkcd — that I am not the only one to have made a certain observation about a certain constellation.
They told me it was a sword, too. I believed it for a while.
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“The name Orion is from Greek ourios, ‘urine’. The story goes that Hyrieus of Boeotia was granted a wish in reward for his hospitality to the gods Zeus (Jupiter), Poseidon (Neptune) and Hermes (Mercury), who were visitors in disguise. Hyrieus asked for a son. The gods responded by urinating on a bull’s hide and burying it in the earth which produced a child nine months later. He was named Orion or Ourion (of ouria), urine, after this event.”
Other sources say that the gods ejaculated on the hide; that would be appropriate, too.
Well, that is all new information to me! Somehow I didn’t learn that in my university Classics classes. Funny how they taught us all about the rapes and children born of rapes, but not about the peeing.
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Yep, looks like a sword, point up…
I can’t see his six-pack, though, and his hips are bizarre, indeed…
And no, I won’t make any analogy with another thing in another post… :p
Ah, of course, Orion, the one who urinates.
So, your observation would fit very well with this (http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Orion.html):
“The name Orion is from Greek ourios, ‘urine’. The story goes that Hyrieus of Boeotia was granted a wish in reward for his hospitality to the gods Zeus (Jupiter), Poseidon (Neptune) and Hermes (Mercury), who were visitors in disguise. Hyrieus asked for a son. The gods responded by urinating on a bull’s hide and burying it in the earth which produced a child nine months later. He was named Orion or Ourion (of ouria), urine, after this event.”
Other sources say that the gods ejaculated on the hide; that would be appropriate, too.
Well, that is all new information to me! Somehow I didn’t learn that in my university Classics classes. Funny how they taught us all about the rapes and children born of rapes, but not about the peeing.
And all this time I believed it was a sword…sigh. An illusion, shattered.