Imagined in the action to chase the Pleiadi or to attack with its arch the near Taurus
(but not confirmed from some legend), Orione, was for the Greeks a beautifulst and
powerful hunter son of Poseidone (for the Roman Neptune, the God of the sea) and Euriale.
Of its enterprises some famous writers of the antiquity like Arato, Eratostene and Igino
narrate us. Having loved Merope, the daughter of the King Enopione, Orione came blinded
for punishment from the father of she, until Efesto (Volcano, the God of the fire) gave
to it like guide one of its attending young people, Cedalione. Following a oracolo, the
young person-guide lead it to East in the point where was raised  the cart that hauled
the Sun; reached destination the miraculous beams of the Sun to the dawn gave back the
sight to it. The Sun and the Aurora, but, seiing the hunter fallen in love of he and
their God, Apollo, furious, conceived a deceit: invited the sister Artemis (Diana,the
goddess of the hunt), also in love it of Orione, to a contest of shooting with the arch
and them indicated as target in the sea a large dark fish far away  therefore from not
being able any to recognize the identity. The goddess hit its target mortally, but,
approaching itself the prey, she discovered that the fish in truth was just its loved
hunter who was swimming in the environs: destroyed from the pain Artemis putted it
between the constellations. According to an other version of the history, instead,
Artemis, remained offense because the powerful hunter had dared to think itself better
of the goddess just in the hunting, made to shake the earth from which exited a scorpion
that it picked mortally (you see Scorpius). In an other version Zeus and Ermes (Mercury,
the God of the walkers) like two aliens would have make desire of an old peasant who,
accommodating them and giving the only ox that it was remained, had manifested they
desire of having a son. The Gods they said it to carry in front of they the skin the
ox of which as soon as they had been nourished, they fertilized it and they ordered
it to bury it. From the earth born a child who Ireo called Urione from the Greek ourein,
that it means to be born. In explanation of an excessive importance attributed from the
Greeks to a simple and died hunter, some think that Orione is the rework of the sumeric
figure, Uru-Anna, that is "light of the sky" and the phonetic likeness of would be the
confirmation. The more shining star of the constellation is Rigel (from the Arab rijl,
that is "foot"). The famous star Betelgeuse, correspondent to the skillful shoulder of
the hunter, derives from the Arab yad al-jauza, that it means "hand of Al Jauza": on
the identity of this last it is discussed. Some think he is a personage in which the
Arabs had identified the constellation of Orione with that of Gemini: perhaps a woman
who for its position near the celestial Equator came exactly called Al Jauza, that is
"that female in means". The left shoulder of Orione is Bellatrix, from the Latin
"the warrior". The three stars that form the belt are Alnilam ("pearl thread" in Arab)
Alnitak and Mintaka (these last ones always in Arab mean both "belt" or "girdle").
It came imagined also assaulting the Lepre neighbor with the aid of the neighbors
Smaller Dog and Greater Dog.