Once I attended a seminar of Takayuki Ohira the inventor of mega star (more stories on this latter), while gazing at the stars projected by the Megastar, he told us a story, probably pretty well-known story, maybe its where the terms star cross lovers came from..
Once upon a time the Sun God, thrilled by the splendid weaving of his daughter, decided to marry her to an Oxherder. This doesn't sound like much in the way of a brilliant nuptial alliance, but evidently the match suited her fine. The Oxherder, who let his cattle drink at the River Han (the Milky Way) was so competent a lover that the Weaving Maiden no longer cared to touch a thread. She spun not and neither did she toil. Even the cows were neglected as the two honeymooners enjoyed their connubial blisses. The nasty old stars of heaven looked on and decided that this would not do. The once-industrious pair had become loveslugs. Soon all heaven was distressed at what was misperceived as inexcusable laziness. The Oxherder and his cattle got unceremoniously driven to the far side of the Milky Way. The Weaving Maiden was confined to her loom.
But mercy being the politeness of gods, it was decreed that the lovers could have one conjugal visit per annum... specifically on the seventh day of the seventh month. A day that in the Gregorian Calendar happens to be the day that in Pamplona the bulls are run. And on that day, a bridge of magpies, those black and white birds that figure so prominently in European Alchemy, forms across the Milky Way; and the lovers, one or the other rushing across the bridge of birds, are finally able to embrace. The stars near Vega in the constellation Lyra are the offspring of this celestial tryst.
taken from : http://zbohy.zatma.org/Dharma/zbohy/Literature/ZenCows/zencows-8a.html
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