According to Greek Mythology, Zeus, the king of the gods, seeks an affair with a young woman named 'A'. His wife, and sister (yeah, NOT my imagination) Hera noticed this and curses 'A' turning her into a bear.
It happened so that 'A' had a son named 'B'. On a hunt, 'B' encounters 'A' in the form of a bear, unaware that the bear is his own mother, 'B' goes for the kill. Zeus sees this and intervenes and transforms 'B' into a bear. Realizing that 'A' and 'B' are not safe, he grabs them by their tails and sends them up to the heavens.
Hera, who is still angry asks her foster parents, Oceanus and Tethys (who is also Oceanus' sister by the way. I know, Greeks right?) to allow them to never bathe in the oceans again and thus forever unable to drop below the horizon.
We know of 'A' and 'B' by their Latin names meaning Larger Bear and Smaller bear respectively. Points for the Latin names, and I don't know how the point system works but Bonus for A & B.
It happened so that 'A' had a son named 'B'. On a hunt, 'B' encounters 'A' in the form of a bear, unaware that the bear is his own mother, 'B' goes for the kill. Zeus sees this and intervenes and transforms 'B' into a bear. Realizing that 'A' and 'B' are not safe, he grabs them by their tails and sends them up to the heavens.
Hera, who is still angry asks her foster parents, Oceanus and Tethys (who is also Oceanus' sister by the way. I know, Greeks right?) to allow them to never bathe in the oceans again and thus forever unable to drop below the horizon.
We know of 'A' and 'B' by their Latin names meaning Larger Bear and Smaller bear respectively. Points for the Latin names, and I don't know how the point system works but Bonus for A & B.
ursa major and minor-mukund
ReplyDeleteTisk tisk...... I may be mistaken but the answer that comes to mind is Ursa Major and ursa minor..... The mother being callisto the great bear and arcas the lesser bear....
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