[希臘神話]奧利安

Orion

Orion was a giant hunter．He was the beautiful son of Poseidon．One day，when hunting in the forest，he caughtsight of Artemis' fair maidens，the seven
Pleiades ．Hewas so attracted by their beauty that he started chasing them．Indespair the charming maidens prayed to Artemis for help and were sent up by the goddess to the heavens as a
constellation ．Later he fell in love with another maiden，Merope by name，butrash and impatient，he took the maiden by force and enraged her father，King Oenopion of Chios．The king made him drunk and put out his
eyes ．Following the sound of the Cyclopes' hammer，he went to Hephaestus，who sent a guide to travel with him to the east，where the sun rose．Exposing his eyeballs to the rays of the sun，he was restored to his eyesight．He became aconstant companion of Artemis and followed the goddess in the chase with his dog Sirius．Apollo did not approve of this love，however．One day he dared his sister to shoot at a dark spot moving in the sea．Little did she suspect that she was aiming herarrow at Orion，for the dark spot turned out to be the head of Orion swimming in the ocean．Artemis was extremely sad．As she could not pull him back from the grasp of
Death
she sent him up to the sky as a constellation，with his hunting dog
Sirius
be sidehim．

奧利安是位身材高大的獵手。他是海神波塞冬漂亮的兒子。一天，他在森林中打獵，看到了阿爾特彌斯的仙女們——七顆明星。他如此愛慕她們的美麗，便追趕她們。困境中，美貌的仙女們向阿爾特彌斯求救。結果女神將她們都送入天空充當星座。後來奧利安愛上了另一少女墨洛珀。他魯莽急躁地施暴於她。這激怒了少女的父親俄諾皮耳國王。國王把他灌醉後，挖出了他的眼睛。隨着“獨眼巨人”大錘的敲響，他來到火神赫斐斯托斯跟前。火神派嚮導帶他去太陽升起的東方。將眼球暴露於陽光後，他就恢復了視力，成了女神阿爾特彌斯永久的伴侶，並帶着他的獵狗天狼跟隨女神打獵。阿波羅並不贊成他們之間這種戀情。一天，阿波羅慫恿阿爾特彌斯向海中一移動的黑點射箭。她根本沒想到自己是將箭瞄準奧利安。當看清黑點竟是在游泳的戀人奧利安的頭時，阿爾特彌斯悲痛萬分。因她無力使他起死回生，只好將他送入天空作一星座。他的獵狗天狼（即天狼星座）則蹲在他的身旁。