Constellations:

Stories and
Legends

By: Muskaan 7G

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Andromeda: The Chained Princess

Andromeda was the beautiful daughter of two very powerful people,
Queen Cassiopeia and King Cepheus of Ethiopia. The Queen was a very
vain, conceited, narcissistic, egoistic woman. She liked to boast about her
beauty and intellect all day long. One day, the Queen declared she was
more beautiful that the Nereids, Poseidons sea nymphs. This had angered
Poseidon very much. In return, Poseidon set a wild beast, Cetus, a sea
monster onto the coast of Ethiopia. Cetus, also known as Kraten, caused
lots of damage, forcing the king to take action.
An oracle told the king the only way to save his land was to
sacrifice his daughter, Andromeda to the wild beast; so he did. King
Cepheus chained Andromeda to a rock in the middle of the sea leaving
her as bait. Perseus saw Andromeda chained up so he decided to talk to
her. Still wearing Hermes winged sandals, which he used to decapitate
Medusa, he flew over to Andromeda. Once he reached her, he asked what
had happened, when he heard, he offered to rescue her by killing Cetus,
but on one condition. He wanted her hand marriage. Andromeda instantly
agreed.
Using Hermes sandals, Perseus flew out to sea and beckoned the
monster to come out. After a while, the monster came out and began
fighting him. However, Perseus had a plan. He pulled out Medusas
decapitated head and pointed her face towards the beast. Cetus was
instantly turned to stone and Perseus flew back to Andromeda. He
unchained her and brought her back home to her parents.
Later on, Perseus and Andromeda became King and Queen. They
had six sons, Perses, who took over his grand-fathers kingdom of
Ethiopia, Alcaeus, Sthenelus, Heleus, Mestor, Electryon and a daughter
named Gorgophone. Andromeda was also great-grandmother to Hercules.
After her death, Andromeda was placed among the stars as the
Andromeda constellation. The monster sent to destroy Ethiopia and kill
her, Cetus or Kraten, was also placed among the stars as the Cetus
constellation or Kraten constellation.

Cassiopeia: The Queen

(continued from Andromeda: The Chained Princess)
Cassiopeia was an evil, egoistic, queen of Ethiopia. She ruled
alongside her husband, Cepheus, the king of Ethiopia. After her daughter,
Andromeda was saved by Perseus from a horrid sea monster, Cetus, sent
out to destroy Ethiopia; they had decided to get married. From here on,
there are many versions to the story. This won involves a man named
Phineas. Phineas was Andromedas ex-fianc and he wanted Andromeda
back. Together, Cassiopeia and Phineas plotted a plan to kill Perseus. They
gathered many men and on the day before the wedding, Phineas
confronted Perseus and Andromeda.
As they fought, Perseus and Andromeda became outnumbered so
Peseus pulled out the decapitated head of Medusa, who he had previously
fought, and turned Phineas, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and anybody else who
didnt look away into stone.
In other stories, Phineas and Cassiopeia never plotted a plan
together. It just happened that she did not look away in time and turned
to stone. However, Poseidon still placed both, the King and Queen into the
sky and as punishment for her vanity; she spent half a year upside down
in the stars.

Aquarius: The Cup Bearer

One day, a boy named Ganymede, who was said to be the most
handsome young boy in all of Troy, was tending to his fathers sheep on
Mount Ida. While he was working, he was spotted by the almighty Zeus.
Zeus was instantly infatuated with him and wanted him for himself. He
transformed himself into a giant eagle and swooped down from Mt.
Olympus to Mt. Ida. He grabbed Ganymede and carried him back to Mt.
Olympus to be his lover and servant. Zeus decided that Ganymede would
become his personal cup-bearer, bringing him drinks whenever he
pleased.
Zeus offered Ganymedes father a herd of the finest horses in all of
the land for taking away his son. This had appeased his father very much
and he continued on with his life, leaving Ganymede with Zeus.

One day Ganymede had enough. He decided to pour out all of the
wine, ambrosia and nectar, the food of the gods, refusing to stay as Zeus
cup-bearer. The legend continues by saying that all of water fell to earth
causing massive rain storms and flooded the entire world.
However, Ganymede was not punished. In a rare moment, Zeus
realized he was unfair to the child so he made him immortal by putting
him in the sky as the Aquarius constellation.

Centaurs: The Centaur

There once was a tribe of people called The Centaurs. They were
half-man and half-horse. The wisest and eldest of them was Chiron. Chiron
was the son of the Titan Kronos and a nymph, Philyra. Unlike the rest of
his tribe, he was immortal. He studied health and medicine and helped
train young heroes to fight. One day, Chiron was shot by Hercules with an
arrow that was dipped in the poisonous blood of a Hydra, a fire and acid
breathing monster with nine heads. Chiron was in deep pain and there
was no way to stop it.
Meanwhile, Prometheus, Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel
who was entrusted with molding the first humans out of clay, was being
punished for giving mankind the knowledge of fire. As a punishment, he
was bound to a rock in the depths of Tartarus where a vulture
continuously pecked and ate his liver. Because he was immortal,
Prometheus always healed, being forced to endure the pain every day.
The only way he could be released from his pain was if someone
voluntarily took his place.
Hercules asked if Prometheus could be released and instead Chiron
took his place. Therefore, only one of them would have to go through
endless pain and suffer. After Chiron took the place of Prometheus,
Hercules pulled out a long, sharp arrow and shot the vulture straight
through the skull, ending the torture. After Chiron had died, Zeus, his halfbrother, took mercy on him and placed him in the sky where he could
watch over the world.

Corona Borealis: The Northern Crown

A very long time ago, there was a ruler named Minos, son of Zeus,
king of Crete. He was a very well known man with the greatest naval
kingdom at the time, taking on many military expeditions and journeys.
But Minos was controlled by anger. He wanted to avenge the death of his
first son by having the Athens in his control. With the help of his father,
Zeus, he was able to get the Athens to surrender. However, when they
surrendered, they also unknowingly accepted the Blood Tribute.
Every year, the Athens were to provide seven young men and seven
young women to travel through a labyrinth. Inside the labyrinth lived a
horrid beast, half-man and half-bull, the Minotaur. If they could not hide,
they would become food to the Minotaur. This ritual had been going on for
years and would be for as long as the Minotaur lived.
One year prince Thesus, son of Poseidon and successor of King
Aegeas of Athens was part of the group of seven men and seven females
sent to the Labyrinth. The young princess of Crete, Ariadne, saw the
brave hero from the Athens and instantly fell in love. She wanted to help
Thesus escape the Minotaur; so she did. One night she snuck out and
gave Thesus a ball of golden yarn. This way, he could kill the Minotaur
and also find his way out but only if he promised to take her with him.
Thesus agreed and eventually killed the Minotaur and he left Crete
alongside Ariadne.
Ariadne and Thesus sailed off together, farther and farther away
from Crete. However, along the way, he abandoned her on the Island of
Naxos. As Ariadne wept, Dionysus, god of fertility and wine, saw her and
instantly fell in love, and they were soon married. On her wedding day,
she wore a crown made by Hephaestus, god of fire and craftsmanship.
Once the wedding way over, she tossed the crown in the sky, where the
jewels turned into stars and became the constellation of Corona Borealis.