Hyrieus of Boeotia, a childless old man, entertained three gods in disguise and asked for a son. From a bull-hide buried in the earth, Orion was miraculously born — named Urion for his strange origin before the name shifted.
⚠ This Boeotian tradition (Ovid, Fasti 5.493-544; Hyginus, Fabulae 195) conflicts with Hesiod's genealogy making Orion son of Poseidon and Euryale.
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