 Joseph Fontenrose wrote Orion : the Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress ( 1981 ) to show Orion as the type specimen of a variety of grotesque hero . Fontenrose views him as similar to Cúchulainn , that is , stronger , larger , and more potent than ordinary men and the violent lover of the Divine Huntress ; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon , Leucippus ( son of Oenomaus ) , Cephalus , <unk> , and Zeus as the lover of Callisto . Fontenrose also sees Eastern parallels in the figures of <unk> , Attis , Dumuzi , Gilgamesh , Dushyanta , and Prajapati ( as pursuer of <unk> ) . 
