狮子座英文全称

狮子座--Leo

面对挑战者，直来直往单打独斗的王者风范，是狮子座的象征，相传狮子座的由来与赫五力有关。赫五力是宙斯与凡人的私生子，他天生具有无比的神力，天后希拉也因此妒火中烧。在赫五力还是婴儿的时候，就放了两条巨蛇在摇篮里，希望咬死赫五力，没想到赫五力笑嘻嘻的握死了它们，从小赫五力就被奉为"人类最伟大的英雄"。

希拉当然不会因为一次失败就放弃杀死赫五力，她故意让赫五力发疯候打自己的妻子，赫五力醒了以后十分懊悔伤心，决定要以苦行来洗清自己的罪孽，他来到麦西尼请求国王派给他任务，谁知道国王受希拉的指使，果然赐给他十二项难如登天的任务，必须在十二天内完成，其中之一是要杀死一头

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Leo (Latin for lion, symbol , Unicode ♌) is a constellation of the zodiac Leo lies between dim Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east

Notable features

This constellation contains many bright stars, such as Regulus (α Leonis), the lion's heart; Denebola (β Leonis); and γ1 Leonis (Algieba) Many other fainter stars have been named as well, such as δ Leo (Zosma), θ Leo (Chort), κ Leo (Al Minliar al Asad ), λ Leo (Alterf), and (ο Leo (Subra)

Regulus, η Leonis, and γ Leonis, together with the fainter stars ζ Leo (Adhafera), μ Leo (Ras Elased Borealis), and ε Leo (Ras Elased Australis), make up the asterism known as the Sickle These stars represent the head and the mane of the lion

A former asterism representing the tuft of the lion's tail was made its own constellation by Ptolemy III in 240 BC It was given the name Coma Berenices

The star Wolf 359, one of the nearest stars to Earth's solar system (77 light-years), is in Leo Gliese 436, a faint star in Leo about 33 light years away from the Sun, is orbited by one of the smallest extrasolar planets ever found [1]

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Notable deep sky objects

Leo contains many bright galaxies, of which the twins (Spiral Galaxy M65, Spiral Galaxy M66) and (Spiral Galaxy M95, Spiral Galaxy M96) are the most famous

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History

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Etymology

Early Hindu astronomers knew it as Asleha and as Sinha, the Tamil Simham but later, influenced by Greece and Rome, as Leya or Leyaya, from the word Leo, as the Romans commonly called it

Ovid wrote it as Herculeus Leo and Violentus Leo Bacchi Sidus (Star of Bacchus) was another of its titles, the god always being identified with this animal, and its shape the one often adopted by him in his numerous transformations, while a lion's skin was his frequent dress But Manilius had it Jovis et Junonis Sidus (Star of Jove and Juno), as being under the guardianship of these deities, perhaps appropriately considering its regal character, especially that of its lucida

The Persians called it Ser or Shir; the Turks, Artan; the Syrians, Aryo; the Jews, Arye; and the Babylonians, Aru — all meaning a lion In Euphratean astronomy it was additionally known as Gisbar-namru-sa-pan, variously translated, but by Bertin, as the Shining Disc which precedes Bel, "Bel" being our Ursa Major, or in some way intimately connected therewith

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Symbol

Hevelius' drawing of Leo, 1690

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Hevelius' drawing of Leo, 1690

The adoption of this animal's form for the zodiac sign has been attributed to the fact that when the Sun was among its stars in midsummer the lions of the desert left their accustomed haunts for the banks of the Nile, where they could find relief from the heat in the waters of the inundation Pliny wrote that the Egyptians worshipped the stars of Leo because the rise of their great river was coincident with the Sun's entrance among them For the same reason the Sphinx is said to have been sculpted with Leo's body and the head of the adjacent Virgo, although Egyptologists maintain that this head represented one of the early kings, or the god Harmachis

Distinct reference is made to Leo in an inscription of the walls of the Ramesseum at Thebes, which, like the Nile temples generally, was adorned with the animal's bristles, while on the planisphere of Dendera its figure is shown standing on an outstretched serpent The Egyptian stellar Lion, however, comprised only a part of ours, and in the earliest records some of its stars were shown as a knife, as they now are as a sickle Kircher gave its title there as ∏ιμεντεκεων, Cubitus Nili

The astrological symbol has been supposed to portray the animal's mane, but it also might be the animal's tail Gaius Julius Hyginus's writing published in 1488 and Albumasar's in 1489 showing this latter member of extraordinary length, twisting between the hind legs and over the back, Hyginus's manuscript properly locating the star Denebola in the end But the International Dictionary says that this symbol is a corruption of the initial letter of ∧εων (Leon) Félix Lajard's Cultes de Mithra mentions the hieroglyph of Leo as among the symbols of Mithraic worship, but how their Lion agreed, if at all, with ours is not known

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Mythology

In Greek mythology, it was identified as the Nemean Lion (and may have been a source of the tale) which was killed by Heracles during one of his twelve labours, and subsequently put into the sky

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Astrology

Main article: Leo (astrology)

The Western astrological sign Leo of the tropical zodiac (July 23 – August 22) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu astrological sign of the sidereal zodiac (August 10 – September 15)

In some cosmologies, Leo is associated with the classical element Fire, and thus called a Fire Sign (with Aries and Sagittarius) Leo is also one of the Fixed signs (along with Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius)

It is the domicile of the Sun The Egyptian pharaoh Nechepso, and his priest Petosiris, taught that at the creation of the world the Sun rose here near Denebola, and hence Leo was Domicilium Solis, the emblem of fire and heat, and the "House of the Sun"

Each astrological sign is assigned a part of the body, viewed as the seat of its power Leo rules the heart and spine

狮子座 Leo

7/23～8/22

在希腊神话中，传说当时希腊的第一英雄，也就是大力士海格立斯，虽然一出生就被宙斯的老婆赫拉所诅咒：在他生下来后，注定要背负沉重的罪孽及承受十二项挑战。不过海格立斯毫不畏惧，并且一一通过考验。

长大后，海格立斯的第一项挑战，就是去杀死涅墨亚狮子，并剥下它的皮毛。可是这只狮子非常凶猛，力气巨大无比，而且刀枪不入。海格立斯用他的神力射出箭，却被它的厚皮给弹走了；拿剑砍它，剑也弯了，后来他拿起大棒子朝狮子鼻子打去，这一打才把狮子的耳朵给震得嗡嗡作响。趁着这个机会，海格立斯便将狮子的头挟在腋下，使劲地挤压猛打，最后终于把狮子杀死。

当宙斯知道儿子的英勇事迹后，高兴地将这头死去的狮子升上天空中成为狮子座。

狮子座在十二星座中排行第五，守护星是太阳，守护神是神话故事中太阳神阿波罗的前身，在象征太阳光和热的阿波罗守护下，这个星座出生的人，性格活泼洒脱，勇气绝佳，自尊心强。

宙斯和阿克梅妮所生之子海格拉斯，被任命为耶里斯特斯王，要去执行十二项困难的任务，第一个任务是制服在涅梅谷的不死食人狮，这只狮子专吃家畜和村人，人人畏惧，以前曾有人来制服，但未见生还者。来到涅梅谷的海格拉斯也是迷了路好多天，才发现狮子的踪迹。海格拉斯欲射箭攻击，但因狮皮太硬而无效。用剑砍剑也弯掉了，于是用橄榄树制成粗棍，用力往狮头打去，此时不怕弓剑的狮子也畏惧发怒的海格拉斯，被海格拉斯绑住脖子，终于被他击退。女神赫拉为了感念这只狮子，乃在天上设立了狮子星座。