11/25/11 – Ephemeris – The mythology of Taurus the bull
Friday, November 25th. The sun will rise at 7:51. It’ll be up for 9 hours and 15 minutes, setting at 5:06. The moon is new today, and won’t be visible.
Low in the east at 9 p.m. is the constellation of Orion the giant hunter. Above him is Taurus the bull. His face is a letter V shape of stars lying on its side with the bright orange-red star Aldebaran at the bottom tip of the V as its angry blood-shot eye. Orion is depicted in the sky facing with club in one hand and a shield in the other the approaching and in some depictions charging Taurus. The V of stars is a star cluster called the Hyades. The Pleiades are in his shoulder above. Taurus in Greek mythology was the guise the god Zeus when he carried off the maiden Europa. Europa’s still with him, sort of, as the intriguing satellite orbiting Zeus’ Roman equivalent Jupiter. In fact the moons around the planet Jupiter are generally named for Jupiter’s lovers and friends.
* Times, as always are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.
Addendum
The constellations Taurus and Orion and the Pleiades. Created using Cartes du Ciel.
Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog 
Though there are other sources available from other classical writers. Homer mentioned the earliest constellations in Odyssey V, all in the same passage: Great Bear, Bootes, Orion and the clusters of stars, known as the Pleiades, but he doesn’t provide any myths to them.