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Ision: A Giant Hunter In Greek Mythology

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Orion was a giant hunter in Greek Mythology who usually carried an unbreakable bronze club. "He is considered to be Boeotian by birth, born (according to a late legend) of the earth (from a buried bull hide on which three gods had urinated)." In the oldest version of Orion, it said that, "he made sexual advances to Merope, the daughter of the local king. King Oenopion had him blinded and removed from the island. Blind Orion reached the island of Lemnos, which was the place where god Hephaestus had his forge." After reaching the island the sun god, Helios restored his eyesight. He then went to Crete and hunted with the huntress goddess Artemis and her mother Leto. He then said that he would declare war on every animal in the world. Subsequently

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