Zodiac Signs

Question 1

Taurus/Tauro

Answer 1

Sign: bull
Represents the bull that Zeus transformed into in order to kidnap the girl Europe

Question 2

Gemini

Answer 2

Sign: twins
Represents the twins Castor and Pollux who were Argonauts on Jason’s boat

Question 3

Cancer

Answer 3

Sign: crab
Represents the giant crab that Hera sent to attack Hercules during his second of the 12 labors

Question 4

Leo

Answer 4

Sign: lion
Represents the Nemean lion that Hercules killed and skinned as the first of his 12 labors

Question 5

Virgo

Answer 5

Sign: maiden
Represents Astraea, the virgin-goddess of justice, the last to abandon the lawlessness and poorly behaved men of the earth

Question 6

Scorpio/Escropio

Answer 6

Sign: scorpion
Comes from the story of Orion, the son of Poseidon and Euryale. Apollo was jealous that Orion and Artemis were hunting partners, so he sent a giant scorpion which stung and killed Orion.

Question 7

Sagittarius/Sagitario

Answer 7

Sign: archer/centaur
Represents two centaurs: Chiron/Quiron, who trained heroes such as Heracles, Achilles and Jason. It also represents Deyanira, who gave Hercules’s wife the poison that killed the hero.

Question 8

Capricorn/Capricornio

Answer 8

Sign: half-goat half-fish
Represents the god Pan was transformed into a half-goat, half-fish when he dived into the Nile River to escape the giant Typho.

Question 9

Aquarius/Acuario

Answer 9

Sign: water-bearer
Represents: Ganymede, the young boy kidnapped by Zeus to be the water bearer for the Olympian gods

Question 10

Pisces/Piscis

Answer 10

Sign: fish
Represents: the fish represent the goddess Aphrodite and her son, Eros

Question 11

Libra

Answer 11

Sign: scales
Related to the Greek Goddess of Justice named Themis, the mother of Astrea, who represents Virgo

Question 12

Aries

Answer 12

Sign: ram
Related to the golden ram that rescued Phrixus and took him to Colchis where he sacrificed the ram to appease the Gods, where it became the golden fleece