Ancient myth has it, that in the Iron Age when people learned to make tools as well as weapons of iron. The God Jupiter, angered by all the fighting and destruction from these iron weapons decided to destroy the entire race with a flood. The Gods fled the earth and the last to go, The Goddess Astraea, was so saddened she asked to be turned into a star.
Meantime, two mortals who had been faithful to the Gods fled to the top of Mount Parnassus and were spared by Jupiter. When the floodwaters receded, all that was left around the two mortals was mud and slime. Astraea felt so sorry for them that she wept, her tears falling as stardust which, when upon hitting the earth, turned to lovely starfl...