In ancient Greek mythology, the constellations including the zodiac signs, behind each constellation, there are their legends. However, most of them are related to the romantic and random seeding of the god Zeus, such as the stories of Aquarius, Taurus, Gemini and so on.
Next, I will tell the mythological story of Capricorn and Pisces in ancient Greek mythology. The story of these two constellations is finally decoupled from the romantic spirit of Zeus.
Let’s start with Capricorn.
In ancient Greek mythology, the prototype of Capricorn is a musician who is proficient in rhythm and dance, and he is also a kind and warm man. Unfortunately, he looks ugly. Therefore, his road of love can be described as a difficult journey. He bravely confessed to the girl he admired again and again, even stalker, but was relentlessly rejected...
Legend has it that the prototype of Capricorn is an "ugly man" named Pan.
Pan was enchanted by a god and a fairy, but I don’t know if it was due to a genetic mutation. When Pan was born, his mother was shocked. It turned out that he was very strange and scary. He had horns on his head. Although it has a human form, it is a half-sheep, half-human appearance, and this appearance generally belongs to a monster, such as the half-man, half-horse "centaur".
However, even if he looks "ugly", his mother still loves him. Later, the god Zeus named him the god of mountains and forests (also called the god of shepherd Pan).
Pan has been with the mountains and forests for many years. Later, he discovered that there are often beautiful fairies playing in the mountains and forests, and Pan also wants to mingle with them. However, whenever Pan showed up, those shy girls would disappear. They were afraid of Pan's appearance and did not dare to approach him. Pan fell into distress.
Later, Pan changed another way. He planned to attract beautiful fairies with singing. His singing is so beautiful and gentle, and the fairies hiding from eavesdropping gradually Attracted by Pan's singing, they gradually stopped being afraid and were willing to play with Pan.
Later, after a pleasant time together, Pan found that he fell in love with these moving women. Therefore, he bravely expressed his love to the girls. Although the girls were willing to play with him, they still resisted Pan's ugly and strange appearance. They were unwilling to fall in love with Pan. So they Rejected him.
Pan did not give up, he even used a stalker method to chase his favorite girl, but the girl was unwilling to die. Once, Pan fell in love with a woman, Pan told her sweet words, but the girl refused him, and she was afraid of Pan, and took the opportunity to run away, Pan followed closely, and in the end, Pan failed. He followed the woman all the way to the river. Seeing that she had nowhere to go, she begged the river god for help. Unexpectedly, the river god turned the woman into a reed pole when Pan wanted to hug the girl.
So Pan got a reed pole made by a woman, and he turned the reed pole into a new instrument, a reed flute. And named after the fairy, Surenks. Since then, Pan has been inseparable from this flute. He always takes the flute with him and uses it to play his newly created pieces.
Later, when the gods wanted to hold a song and dance party on the Nile River, they invited Pan, the god of the mountains and forests, who was proficient in rhythm, to cheer for the gods. The rhythm is mesmerized and praised.
In the middle of the dance, when the gods are enjoying themselves, the monster that was conceived by the mother of the earth, Gaia, came out to make trouble. Tifeng is a violent giant taller than a mountain. It has ten spouts. The head of the poisonous fire is extremely powerful. This monster, even the god Zeus, was quite jealous of it, and he fought against it several times.All are at a disadvantage, let alone other gods.
Suddenly, the wind broke the banquet and it broke the venue. As a result, the venue was in chaos, the gods were invincible, and they performed transfiguration to escape. So Zeus turned into a ram, Hera turned into a cow, the sun god Apollo turned into a crow, the moon goddess turned into a kitten, and the gods turned into various animals and fled the scene.
At this time, because Pan was exposed to such a dangerous scene for the first time, he was just shocked by the appearance and destruction of the wind. He also wanted to transform and escape. He might be too frightened. Pan planned to transform into a fish and escape, but a little accident happened. In the end, his lower body became a fish and his upper body became a sheep. Fortunately, it finally slipped away.
And this half-sheep, half-fish shape later became the prototype of Capricorn.
is also this banquet, and there is also a small episode in Aphrodite and his son Cupid.
When there was chaos, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, also planned to turn into a fish and slip away, but he found that the youngest son Cupid was not with him, so she anxiously Looking for son. In the end, she found a trembling Cupid in a corner, so, in order to prevent her son from being separated from her, she tied one of her son's feet to her own with a red string, and at the same time turned into a fish and slipped away. And this image is the prototype of Pisces.
Okay, the story ends here.
Actually, this story, in summary, is the scene of a transfiguration conference where the gods were forced to perform in order to escape.
In this Greek mythology of Capricorn and Pisces, Pan was dismissed because of his looks, and his love was often unsuccessful. I took a look at my appearance and sighed. The love between Aphrodite and Cupid’s mother and child portrays a warm mother-child relationship.
