"The Ascension of Ganymede"
©2005

It is said that the god Zeus lusted after the beautiful youth Ganymede so much that he descended from Mt. Olympus in the form of an eagle to take the boy as his lover. Ganymede was then made the cupbearer of the Gods and granted immortality as the constellation Aquarius, contrasted by the constellation attributed to Zeus, Aquila, the eagle. (You can read my version of the myth here.)