Orion
Son of Hyrieus, of Hyria in Boeotia, handsome giant and hunter. Having come to Chios, he fell in love with Merope, the daughter of Oenopion; his treatment of the maiden so exasperated her father, that, with the assistance of Dionysus (Bacchus) he deprived the giant of his sight. Being informed by an oracle that he should recover his sight if he exposed his eyeballs to the rays of the rising sun, Orion found his way to the island of Lemnos, where Hephaestus (Vulcan) gave him Cedalion as his guide, who led him to the East. After the recovery of his sight he lived as a hunter with Artemis (Diana). The cause of his death is disputed. According to some he was beloved by Artemis; and Apollo, indignant at his sister's affection for him, asserted that she was unable to hit with her arrow a distant point which he showed her in the sea.
She thereupon took aim, the arrow hit its mark, but the mark was the head of Orion, who was swimming in the sea. After his death Orion was placed among the stars, where he appears as a giant with a girdle, sword, a lion's skin, and a club. The constellation of Orion set at the commencement of November, at which time storms and rain were frequent; hence he is often called imbrifer, nimbosus, or aquosus.