Orion (mythology)

Orion in Greek mythology was a handsome giant and hunter, who was struck blind by Dionysus for attempting an outrage on Merope, but recovered his eyesight on exposing his eyeballs to the arrowy rays of Aurora, and became afterwards the companion of Artemis on the hunting-field, but he fell a victim to the jealousy of Apollo, the brother of Artemis, and was transformed by the latter into a constellation in the sky, where he figures as a giant wearing a lion's skin and a girdle or belt and wielding a club.[1]

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1. ↑ Nuttall Encyclopedia of General Knowledge, article on Orion originally published in 1907 written by Reverend James Wood