Half-divine son of Poseidon by Euryale daughter of Minos (mortal — distinct from the Gorgon Euryale). Giant hunter of pre-Homeric tradition; companion of Artemis on Crete; killed by scorpion (Gaia-sent) or by Artemis-arrow (Apollo-tricked) across competing variant traditions; placed in the heavens as the great hunter-constellation visible across all seasons. Hesiod's Works and Days uses Orion's seasonal risings and settings as the agricultural-year markers — the constellation functioning as living calendar in the archaic Greek farming context. The variant Boeotian birth-tradition (born from a bull's hide buried after Zeus, Poseidon, and Hermes urinated on it for the childless Hyrieus) presents three divine "fathers" by ritual conception with no biological mother — a non-standard parentage pattern preserved in Hyginus Fab. 195 and Ovid Fasti 5.493-544 but treated as variant rather than primary.