Constellation Taurus Mythology Novels & Stories

HE COULDN’T IMAGINe how things could get any better. Their mate was actually living, and breathing. Granted, it took the better part of several millennium for her to finally exist, but she was there. She was theirs. His. Ours. His beast purred with contentment. It stretched its back in a long pose. She’s ours, and I will not share her. Caspius had to hold down his chuckle. Truth be told, his kind were quick to fall into the haze of their mates. However, the mythology around it was so distorted by outsiders.

Zephyr looked at me, but soon his gaze skimmed back to Juliette as she almost squealed. “Oh my God! Are you serious? You know about them! I am so touched that I am not the only astrophile in Lycannora. Do you know the legend of the Virgo?” Juliette asked excitedly. “Virgo, isn’t she the personification of Persephone, who was abducted by the God of the underworld, Hades?” “Yes! Oh my God! I can’t believe this,” Juliette and Zephyr went on to have some more out of my syllabus talks about constellations and stars and the legends associated with them.

I ask unaware of her story or connection. “The goddess of the hunt. She is the goddess of the wilderness, wild animals, nature, childbirth, and chastity.” Theia rattles the list of attributes off her mental checklist. Theia begins to grin. “She turned a man into a deer for looking upon her nakedness and he was devoured by his own hunting dogs.” “That’s…. Interesting.” I say slowly. “She is often represented by a bow and arrow or a quiver.” Theia begins. “And what of a cypress tree?” I ask in a whisper.

He couldn’t watch this continue for eternity. So he took matters into his own hands and turned the two monsters into stone statues. Then he transferred the likeliness of them into the night sky. the Teumessian fox became Canis Minor, and Laelaps became Canis Major, and the unending chase across the night sky continues to this very day. And that is how the mortals were saved by the same gods they betrayed and rejected. A meaningful story, right? But no, this wasn’t the truth. They lied to the mortals.

She is also sometimes associated with the Roman goddess Diana, who, like Artemis, took on lunar attributes over time. Chandra (Hindu Mythology): Chandra, also known as Soma, is a lunar deity in Hindu mythology. He is often depicted as a young, beautiful god who rides a chariot pulled by white horses. Chandra is associated with the moon's phases, fertility, and the mind. He plays a significant role in many Hindu myths and is one of the nine planetary deities, or Navagraha. Hecate (Greek Mythology):

"See those seven stars? The bright ones?" I follow his finger. "Yes." "That's the Great Wolf. The first shifter the Moon Goddess created. She loved him so much she put him in the sky so he'd never be alone." His hand lowers. Rests on my knee. "And there. The three stars in a line. Those are the Three Brothers." "There's a constellation named after brothers?" "Named after a legend. Three brothers who loved the same woman. She couldn't choose. So the Moon Goddess turned them all into stars. Together forever. Never able to touch."

“Tsk! A stubborn one, but I am not complaining.” Draws the gate of the god Taurus, Jeffrey opens the door and brings forth the embodiment and the basic appearance of the Bull God. A white tiger, he named. “Atlas.” With God’s roar, Jeffrey is back on his feet. Now standing without any pain or problem, which makes Haru disappointed and at the same time excited. “If that is what you wanted. A hundred percent. Zero.” He called upon the guardian God of time. The half of the whole, the pure Yang, and the embodiment of the serpentine god into a mythical creature of a Pegasus.

Unfortunately, although he excelled in everything else, humor wasn’t his forte. At nights, they had no choice but to talk in hushed tones or via text. They stayed indoors but Ecto tapped her phone’s compass and could tell its exact orientation anytime. On her phone’s screen, he would show Kate a whole planetarium of stars, planet and nebulae, swimming wherever in the sky she pointed her gadget. Ecto also accompanied the show with a narration of the names of all the constellations and even the myths about them: King Cepheus, Lyra, Hercules, Arctophylax or Boötes the Hunter, Ursa Major, Draco the Dragon…

The sound of the pool filled the background. “And that one there is the Cassiopeia,” I informed Lilith, pointing out some of the constellations I remembered from when I was a kid and in the astronomy club. “See? You can recognize it… The one to the south of it is Andromeda, and the one to the east is Perseus. According to mythology, Cassiopeia bragged that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the sea nymphs, so as punishment her daughter was to be sacrificed to a sea monster. But Perseus, the demigod saved her from that fate and then claimed her as his.” I felt Lilith’s eyes on me, so I turned to her.

Tears burned in her eyes, and she struggled to hold them in. She was now wary of letting Shania hug her, but her father’s words had taken the fight out of her. Shania touched my dress delicately, envy blazing in her eyes. But before she could say anything, Mina ushered her out, leaving the rest of the family to follow. She glanced at Atticus briefly and he gave her a genuine smile. She smiled back and walked out onto the porch. Mina stopped her before she could take another step. “Wait! You can’t step onto the bare ground. The moon goddess’s place is in the heavens. It is a bad omen if you touch the ground.” She declared.