Saturday 10 May 2014

Constellation Bootes

Myth
Exactly who was Boötes is unclear, and there are many versions of his story:

according to the Greeks,
1. Filomeleo, son of Demeter and Yasonte, first farmer in the world.

2. Arcade, son of Zeus and Callisto and grandson of Lycaon, once Lycaon invited Zeus to a banquet and served his own grandson as food.
The God(s) recomposed Arcade body and became the star,
2.1 another version, after recomposing Arcade's body, they gave it to a goat-herd to raise the child and punished the grandfather Lycaon by making him a wolf (Lupus, a constellation in Southern hemisphere) and burning his mansion.

3. it's a farmer who drives the Plough/oxen in the constellation Ursa(Major) using his two dogs Chara and Asterion (from the constellation Canes Venatici).
The oxen are tethered to the Celestial North Pole and so the action of Boötes keep the heavens in constant rotation around the polar axis.

The inventor of the plow which pleased both Ceres, goddess of agriculture who asked Jupiter to give Boötes permanent fixed installation in heaven as a reward.

Icario, who had learned the cultivation of the Wine of the god Dionysus. Icario was killed by his own friends after a night of heavy drinking!

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