On the island of Chios, there was a young man called Orion, who was blinded by a king whose daughter he had seduced.  In search for the Healing Light of Dawn, he walked east towards the rising sun, with a mortal man riding his shoulders as a guide.  The rays of the sun did indeed restore his vision;  they also revealed him - the most beautiful of beings - to a nymph of the dawn an to the moonhuntress Artemis, and so became the lover of both.
Artemis killed Orion in a fit of jealousy, then, in her grief about what she had
done, she translated his corpse into stars.

She made him the most beautiful constellation in the heavens, glittering with stars of white, violet and yellow, girdled with a belt of brilliants, and also armed with a sword whose blade was veiled in the mist of the Great Nebula, and accompanied by shining Siruis, the Dog Star.

So splendid was Orion, that stargazers of every nation recognized him