Hyerius son of Poseidon and Alkyone, one of the Pleiades, once received his father, who came, together with Zeus and Hermes, to see him. On the occasion, Hierius, who was a very rich man but nevertheless childless, asked his visitors to let him have children. The gods then, urinated in the hide of the sacrificed bull, buried it in the earth, and from it Orion was born. In time Orion grew tall as a giant, and he was granted by Poseidon the power of striding across the sea.
Orion believed himself to be the best of hunters, and once he boasted that he was able to kill anything the earth produced. It was then that Gaia, angered at this boast, sent the scorpion that killed him.
Orion was seen by Odysseus in the Underworld whwere he had the same occupation as whwen he was alive on earth.
,,Έπειτα τον Ωρίωνα εκεί είδα τον πελώριο
που σαλαγούσε τα θεριά στ΄ασφοδελό λιβάδι
όσα στ΄απάτητα βουνά τάχε σκοτώσει ο ίδιος
κι ένα ματσούκι χάλκινο πάντα άσπαστο βαστούσε,,
ΟΜΗΡΟΣ ,,Οδύσσεια λ 578-581
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