In the autumn sky, there is a group of royal constellations, including Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda and Perseus. Related to the Royal Constellation are Cetacea and Pegasus. In Greek mythology, the Royal Constellation has a self-contained fairy tale!
The queen of ancient Ethiopia, Cassiopeia, was proud of the beauty of her daughter Andromeda. One day, she boasted, "My daughter is more beautiful than all the goddesses in the sea, and even the daughter of Poseidon, the most beautiful sea god, can't compare with her." Poseidon knew this and was very angry. He immediately sent a big whale to turn it into a sea monster and harassed the country on the seashore of the Kingdom of Ethiopia. Therefore, since then, the sea of this country has often made waves, destroying large areas of fields and houses, and occasionally sea monsters devoured fishermen.
This made the king fidgety, but he finally got a revelation from God: "If you want to calm this disaster, only the beautiful princess can be sacrificed to make the country peaceful." The king and queen had to lock their daughter to the sea monster on the rocks by the sea. The sea monster really rushed out of the waves and made a terrible cry, heading straight for Princess Moda of Andrao. At this critical moment, Poerxiusi, a hero riding a flying horse and wearing a banshee head at his waist, suddenly came here. Speaking of which, let's insert another short story: How did Poerxiusi get here?
According to Greek mythology, one day, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, came to Poerxiusi, the illegitimate child of Zeus and said to him, "If you take the head of Medusa, the banshee, I will promote you to the holy mountain of Olympus afterwards." Poerxiusi agreed happily. Later, Poerxiusi found the banshee. When she cut off the banshee's head, a beautiful flying horse with two wings suddenly jumped out of the wound and bled. At this moment, Poerxiusi put the banshee's head in a prepared pocket, then tied the pocket around her waist and rode away on a flying horse.
While flying over the Mediterranean, Poerxiusi was forced to land on the Ethiopian coast. He saw at a glance that the princess locked on the rock was threatened by the sea monster, so he immediately pulled out his sword and stabbed the sea monster. The sea monster suddenly turned around and opened his mouth to swallow Poerxiusi. Poerxiusi genial smile that, hurriedly from the waist pocket banshee medusa's head, in front of the sea monster, the sea monster immediately turned to stone. The princess was saved. Poerxiusi broke the chains that locked her, rescued her and married her. Later, the goddess of wisdom came to Poerxiusi's side, fulfilled her promise, promoted Poerxiusi to heaven, and gave him a glorious throne-Poerxiusi. Athena also promoted the princess, king and queen to the sky, becoming Andromeda, Cepheus and Cassiopeia. They are very close, and the king still wears a crown that shows his status; The queen sat comfortably on the ivory throne; And beside Poerxiusi, the princess was still locked on a cliff by the sea. Later, in order to commemorate the great achievements of his son Poerxiusi, Zeus moved the whale monster to the sky far away from the royal constellation and became the constellation Cetacea.