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Callisto and Ursa Major
11-05-2013 17:22Callisto was the daughter of Lykaon, king of Arcadia and she was a nymph of Artemis, a virgin hunting-companion of the goddess. Kallisto (the most beautiful) attracted Zeus’ attention who seduced her.
Callisto has taken a vow of virginity and left her home to roam the mountains of Peloponnese as a devoted priestess to goddess Artemis. When Zeus once happened to see her her lying on the grass, he feel in love with her and turned himself into Artemis’ form in order to approach her. Despite her will, Zeus got her pregnant and in this way Kallisto’s vow to Artemis was broken.
Artemis noticed that Kallisto was pregnant when she invited her attendants to bathe with her after the hunt. Artemis expelled her from her company, and Callisto gave birth to her son Arkas shortly afterwards. Hera, wife of Zeus, transformed Kallisto into a bear in a way to take revenge for her husband’s infidelity.
Arcas, Callisto’s son, was the only heir of the throne of Lykaon and ascended to the throne either immediately after the death of his grandfather. Kallisto roamed the countryside in the form of a bear until her son ran across her one day. Just when Arkas was about to kill his own mother in hunting, Zeus intervened to save him from committing this terrible crime by transforming both mother and son into the constellations of Ursa Major (Kallisto) and Ursa Minor (Arkas).
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