 The Hungarian mythographer Karl Kerényi , one of the founders of the modern study of Greek mythology , wrote about Orion in Gods of the Greeks ( 1951 ) . Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant of Titanic vigor and criminality , born outside his mother as were <unk> or Dionysus . Kerényi places great stress on the variant in which Merope is the wife of Oenopion . He sees this as the remnant of a lost form of the myth in which Merope was Orion 's mother ( converted by later generations to his stepmother and then to the present forms ) . Orion 's blinding is therefore parallel to that of Aegypius and Oedipus . 
