Orion

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~ ORION  id+ | PUNISHED RAPIST |
         myth> MYTHOLOGICAL HUNTER AND A HANDSOME GIANT MAN
  SON OF GAIA or EURYALE & POSEIDON or HYRIEUS
  HIS FATHER POSEIDON GAVE HIM THE GIFT
  OF BEING ABLE TO WALK ON WATER            sug> JESUS OF NAZARETH
  HIS WIFE WAS SIDA or SIDE WHO HAD GREAT BEAUTY
  SIDA DECLARED HERSELF TO BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN HERA AND
  HERA THREW HER INTO TARTARUS               sug> VANITY  JEALOUSY
  ORION FELL IN LOVE WITH MEROPE BUT HER FATHER
  WOULD NOT HAVE HIM
  ORION GOT DRUNK AND TRIED TO RAPE MEROPE FOR WHICH
  HE WAS BLINDED WHICH LED HEPHAESTUS or VULCAN TO HELP HIM
  ORION TOOK A CHILD ON HIS SHOULDERS AS A GUIDE AND
  WENT SEEKING THE RISING SUN
  AURORA or EOS FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND TOOK HIM TO DELOS
  BECAUSE ORION EITHER TRIED TO RAPE DIANA ARTEMIS OR HER
  ATTENDANT OPIS SHE ORDERED A SCORPION TO BITE AND KILL HIM
  astr> DIANA CHANGED BOTH THE SCORPION AND ORION INTO
        ADJOINING EQUATORIAL CONSTELLATIONS ADJACENT TO TAURUS
  THEY INCLUDE THE FIRST MAGNITUDE STARS RIGE AND BETELGEUSE