Cancer

Why is Cancer a crab...?

 

Cancer, the Crab, plays a minor role in the Twelve Labors of Hercules. While Hercules was busy fighting the multi-headed monster, Hydra, the goddess Hera, who did not like Hercules, sent the Crab to distract him. Cancer grabbed onto the hero's toe with its claws, but barely breaking the rhythm of his great battle with Hydra, Hercules crushed the crab with his foot. Hera, grateful for the little crustacean's heroic but pitiful effort, gave it a place in the sky. The crab did not win, so the gods didn't give the crab bright stars. Cancer's brightest star is Acubens. It is a whitish color.

Wikipedia it dude :3

 

And now you know...the rest of the story.

 

The disease was named after the crab, if that's what's got you confused.

 

Cancer is also the Latin word for crab.

 

DOOD did'nt Hera play as Hercules mom in the disney movie xD

 

The Disney movie lies. Hercules was actually half human.

 

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera," Alcides[1] or Alcaeus[2] (original name) "Ἥρα + κλέος, Ἡρακλῆς)" was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, nephew of Amphitryon[3] and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.

Nope

EDIT: Wait sorry, she was portrayed in the 1997 movie as his mother...

My bad