Um médico no céu / A doctor in the heaven

RESUMO

Júpiter é nome do maior e mais brilhante dos planetas do sistema solar e nome do mais poderoso deus da mitologia romana, Zeus na mitologia grega. Dotado de grande erotismo, amou muitas mulheres e veio a se casar com a própria irmã Juno (Hera). Teve muitos filhos, dentre os quais Apolo, Diana (Ártemis), Hermes (Mercúrio), Áries (Marte), Dionísio (Baco), Perseu, Helena de Troia, Pólux, Hércules. Zeus fez Hera amamentar Hércules, seu filho bastardo. Algumas gotas de leite escaparam e, sopradas ao vento, deram origem às estrelas da Via Láctea. Apolo amou Coronis, uma mortal que, mesmo grávida, foi infiel a Apolo e este mandou matá-la. Na pira funerária, com uma faca, Apollo retirou-lhe do ventre o filho ainda vivo, Esculápio. Este, com o centauro Quíron, aprendeu a arte de tratar doenças. Por seu dom de curar doentes e ressuscitar mortos, suscitou inveja e ódio de Júpiter, que o fulminou com raios. A pedido de Apolo, Zeus o tornou deus oficial da medicina e o enviou aos céus onde se encontra na constelação Serpentário.

ABSTRACT

Jupiter is both the name of the bigger and the most shining planet in the solar system and of the most powerful god in Roman mythology, Zeus for the Greek mythology. Endowed with intense erotism, he came to love several women and has finnaly married his own sister Juno (Hera). He had a number of children, namely Apollo, Diana (Artemis), Hermes (Mercury), Aries (Mars), Dionysius (Bacchus), Perseus, Helen of Troy, Pollux, Hercules. Zeus enforced Hera to breastfeed Hercules, his bastard son. Some milk drops have happened to scape and as they were blown away with the wind the Milky Way stars came to be. Apollo has loved Coronis, a mortal human being, but even pregnant from him, she was unfeithful to Apollo and he ordered her killing. In her funeral pyre, through a cut with a knife Apollo could rescue the still alive baby Aesculapius from her womb. As he became grown up, Aesculapius learned from the centaur Cheiron the art of curing diseases. Because of his ability of curing ill people and reviving the dead he raised against him Zeus? envy and wrath, who, then, killed him from a thunderbolt. Afterwards, before the Apollo?s pleas Zeus has turned Aesclepius the god of medicine and sent him away up to the heavens where he is until the present days in the Ophiucus constellation.