*Yemo and *Manu; creation myth

Jean Kelly:

> I'm not too sure about the latest Orion/carving identification

proposed by

> Rappenglueck, but he has produced interesting theories in the past,

e.g.,

> "The Pleiades in the 'Salle des Taureaux' Grotte de Lascaux. Does

a rock

> picture in the cave of Lascaux show the open star cluster of the

Pleiades at

> the Magdalenien era (ca 15,300 BC)?", in C. Jaschek and F. Atrio

Barandela,

> Proceedings of the IVth SEAC Meeting Astronomy and Culture,

Salamanca,

> Universidad de Salamanca, 1997. Whilst they are highly

controversial, these

> theories imply the burgeoning of the sort of concern with astronomy

that I

> mentioned earlier.
>

Torsten:

>Analyze this.

http://www.kahl.net/astro/astro10-02.html#nebra

This is the Nebra disc, a 3,600-year old artefact discovered in Germany last
year, believed to depict the Milky Way, sun, moon, and perhaps the Pleiades.
More information can be found at:

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/243.html -

Clearly, those responsible for fashioning the disk could certainly be
described as concerned with astronomy, although their reasons for choosing
to depict the Milky Way, sun, moon and Pleiades rather than any other
celestial bodies so far remains unexplained, as does the use to which the
disc was put.

Best regards,

Jean Kelly