[tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 15-12-03 16:30, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >> The "disappearance" (or rather variable visibility) of one or

more

> >> of the Pleiades is not connected with any large-scale cataclysms

on

> >> earth,
> >
> > Lots of myths say otherwise. Check the net.
>
> "The net" is hardly a fountain of wisdom. Lots of kooks do their

thing

> out there.

You have to distinguish between kooks and the sources they use. Very
few of them are dishonest, and they quote their sources mostly
correctly.

>Can you direct me to any reliable source that supports the
> idea that a cosmic disaster connected with the Pleiades ever

affected

> our planet?
>

There is a myth that Merope, one of the Pleiades, was extinguished at
the time of the fall of Troy. If that astronomical event happened at
the same time as some disatrous Taurid meteor shower event, you'd
have a connection.

http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg19578.html

> >> and whatever happened among the Pleiades can't have caused any
> >> meteor showers.
> >

True, not to smart old us.

> > The Pleiades are within the constellation of Taurus.
>
> "The constellation of Taurus" is a collection of stars that happen

to be

> located in the same general direction, as seen from Earth.

That's what I said.

>There's no
> cause-and-effect relationship between the Pleiades and meteor

showers,

> no matter what direction the latter come from.
>

See above.

Torsten