From: mrcaws
Message: 34166
Date: 2004-09-15
> >True, although this isn't a problem assuming the terminology spread
> > I also wonder if the Pleiades are connected(a conspicuous cluster
> of
> > stars that make up part of the constellation Taurus) The Pleiades
> > or "the weepers", are in Greek myth the seven daughters of Atlas
> and
> > Pleione. Also known as the seven virgins or the seven stars.
> > According to the entry on the Pleiades in "Funk and Wagnall's
> > Standard Mythology of Folklore and Legend":
> >
> > "Amlost everywhere in the world the rising of these stars is
> > significant as marking the beginning of the new year and is
> > celebrated with feasts, rejoicings and special rites."
> >
> > "The Arabs regarded it as a rain-bringing constellation, and as
> such
> > deified it it was so vital to their life concept as to be
> referered
> > to as an Najm, The Constellation"
> >
> > "The Pleiades has been an important constellation to the peoples
> of
> > both hemispheres since ancient times. It was well known to the
> early
> > Hebrews; both Egyptian and Greek temples were oriented to its
> rising."
> >
> > (Cort)
>
> Problem with this theory is that different people see different
> numbers of stars.
>
> Andrew