Neon Blood
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I've found accounts of both but also of Apollo being his lover. I'm asking mostly in regard to the constellation and it's Greek mythological origins. What's the most common or widely accepted form, that Athena was his lover or that Artemis was?
You've all basically answered me. I think now it was Artemis (and the authors of the other page meant Artemis when they wrote Athena--they had said Artemis on another part of the site), though they were just platonic lovers/companions. I've also read that Hera sent the scorpion after Orion and he evaded it and fled to an island to be with Artemis, where she was tricked into killing him by Apollo.
In the Indian myth, the constellation represents Prajapati, a creator god who was killed for lusting after his daughter, the goddess of the dawn.
You've all basically answered me. I think now it was Artemis (and the authors of the other page meant Artemis when they wrote Athena--they had said Artemis on another part of the site), though they were just platonic lovers/companions. I've also read that Hera sent the scorpion after Orion and he evaded it and fled to an island to be with Artemis, where she was tricked into killing him by Apollo.
In the Indian myth, the constellation represents Prajapati, a creator god who was killed for lusting after his daughter, the goddess of the dawn.