What is the myth behind the Libra constellation?

Answer 1

The legend for the Gemini (pronounced: jem-in-i) constellation is this:

There were twins named Castor and Pollux. They were only half brothers because they had the same mother but different fathers. They had a sister named Helen. They went to fight in the Trojan war so that Helen could return to her husband. In battle, Castor died. Pollux was devestated. He asked his father Zeus (Jupiter) if he could share his immorality with Castor. Zeus agreed and the brothers were reunited as the Gemini constellation.

Answer 2

Unlike other constellations, Virgo doesn't have a particular myth behind its origin or associated with it, it just has a mythology associated with it. The Mesopotamians thought that Virgo was the ear of grain of Shala, a grain goddess. The Greeks said it was interchangeably Demeter or her daughter Persephone. Later in Greece Virgo became the virgin goddess Astraea. Christians associated the constellation with the Virgin Mary.

Answer 3

Well in the ancient Egyptian culture, they believed that when you died, the gods would weigh your spirit on a scale. If it tipped the scale off- balance, that meant you committed too many sins, therefore you could not enter the afterlife. That is where the scales for Libra came from.

Answer 4

there are several myths behind the constellation sagittarius. my personal favorite is the greek myth for sagittarius which says that sagittarius was a well educated and kind centaur(half man half horse). he was mistakingly killed by a poisned arrow by his good friend herecules. to honor sagittarius herecules' father zeus gave sagittarius a final resting place in the stars.