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Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere (1911)

Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 382

An illustration from Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere, 1911, leaf 382 — s connected with the constellationof the Scorpion, and it is related that Orion boasted thatthere was not an animal on earth which he could not con-quer. To punish his vanity, it is said, a scorpion sprangout of the earth and bit his foot, causing his death. At therequest of Diana he was placed… … ^ > o sPh Q Orion, the Giant Hunter 279 that he might escape in the West as the reptile rose in theEast. When the Scorpion comes Orion flees to utmost end of earth. The Hindus connect in a legend, Aldebaran, the red starin the eye of the Bull, Sirius, known to them as the Deer-slayer, and Orion,…

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