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In ancient times, the Pleiades Star Cluster rose in the eastern sky at sunset, reminding the Celts of their Pleiadian Star Teachers heritage. The Pleiades were associated with the beginning of the ancient Celtic New Year which was celebrated on the cross-quarter day festival of Samhain on November 8th. For some information on recent occurrences involving the interconnectivity and interrelationships between the Earth, the Solar System, and the Pleiades please see the Pleiades Pleiadians Orion Orions Article, Pleiadian Knowledge Keys Located within four degrees of the ecliptic, the distinctive Pleiades star cluster was showcased seasonally in both the northern and southern hemispheres. They were the first stars referenced in astronomical writings. The Pleiades were noted in Chinese annals around 2350 BCE. In the Bible, they were referred to in Job 9:7-9, Job 38:31-33, and Amos 5:8. The Greek writer Hesiod mentioned them in The Farmer's Almanac Work and Days. Homer referenced the star cluster in his epic poems The Illiad and The Odyssey. The ancient Greek astronomers Aratos and Eudoxus called them The Clusterers, listing them as a constellation.
It was a Greek poet named Pindar who first named the stellar cluster The Pleiades
after a flock of doves. Other possible Greek derivative words are plein to sail; pleios for fullness or many; and, the name of the mother of the seven sisters,
Pleione. When a French group of seven renaissance poets called themselves, La Pléiade after a group of seven Hellenistic tragic poets from Alexandria, the term became synonymous with brilliant group.
After Charles Messier made his nebulae and star clusters list in 1771, identifying them as No. 45, they also became known as Messier 45 and M45. Observable with the naked eye since remote antiquity, anywhere from 6 to 12 or more of the Pleiades are visible without the aid of a telescope, depending on the clarity and darkness of the night skies. Galileo was the first to telescopically study the star cluster, noting more than 40 stars in the cluster. In 1885, they were photographed for the first time by Paul and Prosper Henry. The nine brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster (see image below) were named after Greek mythology parents the Oceanid, Protectress of sailing, Pleione and the Titan who supported the sky, Atlas and their seven daughters. The seven sisters were called Maia, Electra, Alcyone, Taygete, Asterope, Celaeno and Merope. The seven sisters were companions of Artemis, the virgin goddess of the Moon and hunting. Zeus lusted after the radiant beauty of the Divine Feminine soul essence of the seven sisters and relentlessly pursued them. Just as most of history is written from the viewpoint of the vanquishers, a lot of the prevailing Greek mythos was written to give a positive spin on past events, glorifying the very people who had usurped ruling authority from those more worthy of the responsibility.
So the deliberately
distorted, false propaganda Greek myth of his-story according to Zeus,
reported something like the following sequence of events: "During
an accidental encounter with the seven sisters while he was out hunting, Orion
became smitten with them and pursued them relentlessly all over the earth.
Artemis beseeched Zeus to intervene. He did so by transforming them into a flock
of doves and placing them in the heavens as stars"... Continue on Go back
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