else that is at all desirable and legitimate will follow. In all these cases, as in all other experiences of life it is safe to say "He doeth all things well," and "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?"

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The Star Myth of Orion

EFYING the Bull and pursuing the Pleiades, Orion takes his nightly path across the heavens. A giant was he when on earth, and burly, like all the sons of Neptune, and he still bears with him in the sky the lion's skin that served him as a shield, and the club and sword that were his weapons, as well as the girdle that gleamingly begirt his waist. His dog, Sirius, follows faithfully on his steps.

"Eastward beyond the region of the Bull

Stands great Orion: whoso kens not him in cloudless night
Gleaming aloft, shall cast his eyes in vain

To find a brighter sign in all the heaven."

In his ardent days he loved Merope, the daughter of Oenopion, King of Chios, and wooed her with offerings from his hunting trips. Perhaps to prolong the assiduity which kept his land free of wild beasts, Oenopion delayed the wedding day, until Orion, mad with impatience, attempted to elope with the maiden. By way of punishment for such irresponsible conduct Oenopion made his would-be son-inlaw drunk, blinded him, and drove him out upon the seashore. The tapping of hammers led him to the island of Lemnos, where Vulcan gave him one of his Cyclops for a guide. Kedalion mounted upon Orion's shoulders, and the giant exercised the gift bestowed on him by his father, and strode unharmed through the ocean. Ever eastward he went with his burden until the beams of the sun shone upon his darkened eyes and gave him back his sight.

-Longfellow's "Occultation of Orion."

Orion's renewed vision made all sights beautiful to him, most lovely of all, the Pleiades, the seven fair daughters of Atlas, nymphs in attendance upon Diana. The eager giant gave chase to them, but Jupiter came to their rescue and changed them into doves. They flew into the sky and found a refuge on the neck of Taurus, where they shimmer forever in trembling expectation of their menacing pursuer.

Diana replaced her nymphs by attaching Orion to her train as huntsman. Apollo was jealous of her affection for him. One day he urged her to show her marksmanship and indicated a point on the ocean as her target. The goddess's aim was true and her shaft pierced the brain of the giant as he strode through the billows, his head above their crests. Seized with remorse Diana set him among the stars and made of his fierce presence a constellation that so commands

the eye from size and brilliancy that it has even been thought to be great Nimrod himself, the mighty hunter.

"And all the signs through which Night whirls her car
From belted Orion back to Orion and his dauntless Hound,
And all Poseidon's, all high Zeus's stars

Bear on their beams true messages to man.”

-Poste's translation of Aratus.

Gemini

Jupiter assumed the form of a swan when he wooed

Gemini
The Twins

SCALE OF MAGNITUDES

Leda. She bore twins, Castor and Pollux, whose linked names have come down through the ages as symbols of love between brother and brother. Helen of Troy was their sister, and so was Clytemnestra, the wicked wife of Agamemnon. When Helen was a child Theseus fell in love with her and he and his friend Pirithous

carried her off, but her brothers promptly rescued her.

The heroes' reputation for prowess

"Fair Leda's twins in time to stars decreed,

One fought on foot, one curbed the fiery steed"

made them welcome among the daring band of the Argo

nauts.

"From every region of Aegea's shore

The brave assembled: those illustrious twins
Castor and Pollux; Orpheus, tuneful bard;
Zetes and Calais, as the wind in speed:
Strong Hercules and many a chief renowned."

-John Dyer's "The Fleece."

During the voyage a storm arose that endangered the safety of the Argo, but Orpheus drew appeasing strains from his harp, and as if in answer to his sweet-toned prayer, the stars of peace and calm glowed on the heads of the Dioscuri, the sons of Jove, as many a time since then they