- The constellation URSA MAJOR/Big Dipper LAGONISI/ATHENS
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THE MYTH
The great Zeus fell madly in love with Callisto, the beautiful huntress nymph inhabitant of the forests of Arcadia. The father of the gods seduced the nymph, and she became pregnant. Upon learning what happened Hera, wife of Zeus, prey of jealousy, turned Calisto into a bear (Great Bear OR URSA MAYOR).
Over time, Arkas, the son of Calisto, also a hunter, one day came across a bear and wanted to kill it, not knowing it was his mother. Zeus intervened and revealed the truth. For that not to happen again, Zeus took Callisto, turned into a bear, from her tail and threw her into the sky, also transformed Arkas into a bear and put him in heaven with her mother to keep her company. Arkas is the constellation of Ursa Minor (the Little Bear).
But Hera, wife of Zeus, was not happy and asked her brother, Poseidon, to not allow the heavenly bears, Calisto and Arkas, to approach to his marine domains. Then, The Great Bear and the Little Bear never disappear beneath the sea.
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This constellation is identified with the Great Bear from the time of Homer, who already quoted it in his major works, The Iliad and The Odyssey calling it Bear and Cart.
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