Re: [tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

Is there some clue of PIE name of Pleiades? How they were named among main IE languages? I know Greek Pleiades and Indian Krttika: What was their German and Balto-Slavic names?

Joao SL

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

----- Original Message ----- From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:03 AM Subject: [tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven > One star of the Pleiades is imperfect, since it blew up some thousand > years back, reducing the perfect seven stars of that constellation to > an imperfect six. I don't think that's correct. Some people see the six brightest stars, others, sharper-sighted can see seven (there are actually many more of them: http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/pleiades-t.html ) The whole cluster is very young in astronomical terms, and as far as I know none of the Pleiades has exploded since its birth. The so-called Merope Nebula is a wisp of interstellar gas through which the cluster happens to be passing, genetically unrelated to the stars. On the other hand, the brightness of some of the Pleiades (e.g. Pleione) varies considerably over the years. Piotr

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