The Story of Aries and Aquarius — Greek Mythology #3
The story of Phrixus, Helle and the sheep who became Aries (a constellation and a zodiac sign) and the story of Ganymede, the handsome man, the favourite man of the Gods, who became Aquarius.
In ancient Greece, King Athamas of Thessaly once had two children. One was named Phrixus and the other Helle. When their mother died prematurely, the king, who was thinking of a future for his two children, remarried. But, their stepmother began to inflict such unspeakable torture on the two siblings that it can’t be described in words. She was terrible and cruel.
Hermes, the son of the god Zeus, was deeply saddened to see his helpless siblings being persecuted on a daily basis. So one day he ordered a sheep to rescue them from the clutches of their stepmother and gave him the power to fly with wings in the sky.
When the siblings set off for an unknown country on their sheep’s backs, Helle, Phrixus’s younger sister, suddenly slipped into the middle of the ocean. And as soon as she fell into the sea, she seemed to sink deep into the ocean in an instant. Seeing that tragic scene, his elder brother Phrixus cried in nerve-numbing pain for a moment. She is his own little sister! So as he…
