The Virgo is the second constellation of the sky for dimensions exceed only from the Idra.
It comes imagined like a winged woman who tightens in the left hand a spike of grain
(represented from the star Spica [ = Spica], the most luminous). The reason of such
representation resides in the fact that the myth of the Virgo probably is been born
between the 6540 and the 4380, when the solstice of summer and therefore the period
of pick up of the wheat coincided with the eliacal rise of the constellation. It has
seen like the Great Mother, the Queen of the Earth. In Greece the Virgo was seen like
Dike, the goddess of the Justice. Esiodo considered her daughter of Zeus and of Temi.
In an other version of the myth,as tells to us Arato,she was seen like Astrea,daughter
of Astreo (the father of the constellations) and Eos (the Dawn In Egypt instead has
venerated a goddess that held in arm a child. This is Iside,sister-wife of Osiride that,
after to have recomposed the tortured body from Seth, has given to him Horo. Just to
this figure, based on the testimonies of Eratostene and Avieno, it would bring again
the celestial Virgo. The Virgo was identified also with Demetra (the Great Mother who
presided to the eternal cycle life-dead woman-life of animated beings and vegetables)
and with the daughter Persefone, kidnapped from Ade and conduct in the kingdom of the
hell. That made to anger the Mother that prevented the maturation of the fruits on the
Earth until had not been given back the daughter to her. The worried Zeus then sended
Ermes (Mercury) near Ade for convinced him to free Persefone, than in fact she came
released. The divine law, but, forced anyone had been nourished in the hell and had
been gone out to pass a season in the year in the kingdom of Ade: since Persefone had
eaten pomegranate seeds,she had therefore to obey to such law. It was so that Persefone
that came down periodically in the hell was symbolized from the grain that came buried
in the earth for then to renascence to spring like wheat’s spike. The spike, but, was
also attribute of Demetra which wanted to recompense Trittolemo,that is who had revealed
to her the identity of the abductor, with grain seeds, a plough of wood and a cart pulled
from snakes, sending it for the world to teach agriculture.