LeoLegend has it that

　　A legend

Facing the challenger, majestic demeanor straight to straight to fight alone, is the symbol of Leo, Leo origin related to hercules.

Hercules is the illegitimate child of Zeus and a mortal, he has enormous power, natural days later sheila and therefore jealousy in.In the hercules orbaby, released two serpent in the cradle, want to bite dead hercules, didn't expect hercules smile happily with dead them, since the childhood hercules was regarded as "man's greatest hero".

Sheila, of course, not for one repulse give up kill hercules, she deliberately let hercules mad after his wife, hercules wakes up very regret sad, later decided to penance to clear their iniquity, he came to mike's request the king sent to his task, who knew that the king is directed by sheila, so he gave him twelve difficult tasks, such that day must be finished within 12 days, one of which is to kill a man-eating lion.

The lion usually live in the forest, hercules into the forest to find him, just a silence in the forest, all the animals, birds, deer, squirrels are lions eat clean, hercules get tired playing into hard to fall asleep.At this moment, giant lion from a double head out in the mouth of the cave of the cave, hercules open a look, oh, my gosh!Man-eating lion has generally five times the size of the lion, covered in the blood of animals, added a bit more terror.Hercules with god first shot him, and beat him with sticks, all useless, giant lion invulnerability, finally hercules and the lions melee, process is bitter, but in the end, or use a brute force strangled lion.

Man-eating lion, though dead, sheila to commemorate his courage with hercules struggled to fight, cast a man-eating lion into the air, turned to Leo.

　　Legend has it that the second

Legend hagrid column, is the illegitimate child of Zeus, was born, it was a good jealous Hera's curse, so life will face the danger of 12 hard test.The first is fought and invulnerability, herculean lions.Killing several times, intrepid hagrid, finally killed the lion.And Zeus put the lion in the sky to show hagrid, record.People can see it in the southern sky in late April.

　　The legend of three

Relevant legends and the constellation in Greece is the symbol of nimmi Ann (nimean) valley of a lion, killed by Hera Chris in a bucket.