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Originally Posted by mental4astro
I took the test. Came up 16/20.
However, there are errors in the answers, from what I know of mythology, 
Q5: Orion wasn't killed by a Scorpion, he was blinded by the sting of one, and is attempting to regain his sight be looking towards the rising sun.
Q2: Pegasus was born of the blood of the slain Medusa, not Hydra, who was beheaded by Perseus.
Q18: The closest nebula to Earth is assocciated with the Pleiades, which is around 440 ly from Earth.
I'm prepared to stand by these above.
The answer I admit to getting wrong is number 14,  . I really don't know much about the timing of meteor showers. |
Just been doing a bit of research and there are lots of different versions about Orion and Scorpio. Reading through my books and looking on-line I was surprised how many different versions of Greek mythology there are on Orion & Scorpio. The most common one though seems to be that Scorpio killed Orion/ or was on his death bed, until Ophiuchus the healer gave Orion a life saving antidote.
I have two books in front of me as I type this, one saying he died, the other saying he lived on. Go figure....
Oh well, either way the scorpion had his his way with him.
Going by this, I don't think a yes or no answer can apply to any stories of greek mythology and should not have it's place in a questionnaire.
The only common thread through a lot of reading I've just done seems to be that Orion fancied Artemis (goddess of hunting) and the scorpion attacked him.
One version of the myth even says that Artemis accidentally killed him with an arrow.
