THE UNIVERSE IN WHICH WE LIVE 



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and when the boy was born he was named Orion. When grown 

 he became a mighty hunter, so tall he could wade the sea. He 

 found some beautiful girls playing ball one time, and ran after 



FIG. 1 8. Orion and his dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor 



them. The girls, exhausted, were changed to birds by the gods 

 and later into stars, the Pleiades. Later he met Diana, the 

 hunting goddess, and fell in love with her. Her brother Apollo, 

 fearing she would consent to marry him, seeing Orion approach 

 over the ocean, merely a black speck in the distance, challenged 



