Despite the promise to be eternally virgin and despise men, the goddess of the night and the moon Artemis, once fell in love with Orion, who was the son of the sea god Poseidon, and so he had the gift of walking on the surface of the water. or under it. Apollo, twin brother of Artemis, jealous, prevented the love between the two by a great perfidy: finding himself on a beach, in the company of his sister, he challenged her to reach, with his arrow, a black spot in the water, and that was barely distinguishable, due to the great distance.
Artemis, all vain, promptly tensed the bow and hit the target, which soon disappeared into the abyss of the sea, being replaced by bloody foams. It was Orion, who swam underwater, fleeing an immense scorpion created by Apollo to pursue him. Upon learning of the disaster, Artemis, full of despair, managed from her father, Zeus, to have the scorpion turned into a constellation.