星座英語:巨蟹座的傳説

巨蟹座（6月22日━ 7月22日）
英文名：Cancer

Cancer is emotional, sensitive and a symbol of motherhood with arms circling around the chest. Tt reflects the mother nature of protecting children. But the baby under the security of mother indicates a fragile characteristic. The arms illustrates Cancer owns the strong sense of self-protection.

敏感多情的巨蟹座是母性的象徵，雙臂環繞着胸前，表現母親護衞子女的天性 　　不過，就另一種象徵意義而言，懷中嬰兒代表了無助脆弱的自我，而環繞的雙臂，則説明了巨蟹座濃厚的自我保護意義。

Hercules is hero in the Greek legend. one day, he was ordered to get rid of the dangerous nine-headed snake Hydra. In the fierce battle, Cancer, Hydra's assistant, was killed by Heracles who crushed shells with a stick. But Hera hated this hero, and later she put cancer into the sky, as one os the constellations.

傳説一 　赫拉克勒斯是希臘傳説中的英雄，他受命除掉傷害人畜的九頭水蛇許德拉。在激烈的戰鬥中，許德拉有一隻巨蟹助戰，被赫拉克勒斯用大棒將蟹殼擊碎而亡。神後赫拉非常憎恨這位英雄，把巨蟹放在天上成為星座。在二三月的夜晚，在南方天空可以看見巨蟹星座。

Cancer first appeared in legend of Babylonian culture. In Egypt, the symbol of this constellation is two turtles, sometimes referred to as "the constellation of water", sometimes referred to as allul(allul, an unknown of aquatic life).

傳説二　　巨蟹座最早脱胎於巴比倫的傳説。在埃及，這星座的象徵為兩隻烏龜，有時被稱為“水的星座”，有時又被稱為阿璐兒(allul,一種不明的水中生物)。