Origins in
Mythology
Virgo, also known as Astraes, was
the daughter of Jupiter and Themses and considered the Goddess of Justice.
The constellation is one of only three which represent women.
An alternate belief associates the constellation with the tragic Coronis,
lover of the Greek god Apollo. Coronis was mortal and feared that the god
would tire of her as she was aged, so she took another mortal, Ischys, as
her lover. In his rage, Apollo shot her fatally, with an arrow.
That Coronis was pregnant at the time, did not stay the god's sense of vengeance.
Her child, Asclepius, was saved by Hermes, who delivered the baby on the
funeral pyre. Entrusted to the care of Chiron, the child grew to become one
of the greatest healers of ancient Greece |
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