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Names of the Pleiades
- Plejaren
Names of the Pleiadeans
- Space Brother
- Nordic alien
- Taygetan
- Son of man (Ben-Adam)
Constellation/Planet
- The Pleiades
- The Seven Sisters
- Taurus constellation
- Athor-Aye (Hebrews and Chaldeans)
- Athor (Egyptian)
- Atauria (Arab)
The Only Planet of Choice
The Only Planet of Choice says the people of the Pleiades were seeded like us.
Those that have been seeded on this planet Earth have also been seeded in other systems in your galaxy. The Pleiades are in your Earth galaxy.
The Only Planet of Choice (Phyllis Schlemmer), ch. 5
Star cluster in the Taurus constellation
The Pleiades are an open star cluster of hot blue stars in Taurus, about 444 light years away, and easy to see with the naked eye. The cluster sits at the shoulder of the Bull. Together with the Hyades it forms the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic.
The cluster opened the year in several old calendars. In India it was the first lunar station, Kṛttikā. In Mesopotamia, a list of star gods began with the Pleiades. Among the ancient Arabs, an old calendar began with them.
The 1st of November
Halloween/The day of the dead/ saints day
In 1863, R. G. Haliburton argued in The Festival of the Dead that a festival of the dead held around 1 November, in many lands, was once timed by the Pleiades. He noted the oldest Indian calendar:
In the most ancient calendar in India, the year commenced in the month of November, which bears the name Cartiguey, i.e., the Pleiades
He also compared names. The Pleiades are Athor-Aye among the Hebrews and Chaldeans, the Egyptian month of November is Athor, and the Arab name for the cluster is Atauria. The same tradition places a great Mexican festival on 17 November, timed by the Pleiades, with rites to avert a calamity linked to a past destruction of the world.
The Taurid meteor stream
The Taurid meteors seem to come from near the Pleiades in Taurus. They are strongest from late October into November and are called the “Halloween fireballs”. Their parent body is Comet Encke. In the theory Randall Carlson draws on, the stream is the debris of a giant comet that broke up 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Randall Carlson’s After Skool episode on the ancient origins of Halloween links Halloween to this festival of the dead. He traces it through the Celtic Samhain and calendars from Peru, Egypt and Mexico that followed the rising of the Pleiades. He reads the festival as a shared memory of flood and fire.
Makali’i (the Pleiades)
In Hawaiʻi, the Pleiades stand high in the sky during Hoʻoilo, the winter season from November to April. Their rising signals the Makahiki season.
Ħaġar Qim
Ħaġar Qim is a megalithic temple on Malta from the Ġgantija phase (3600–3200 BC). The documentary Chasing the Equinox says the Pleiades rise due east there, and links this to stones it reads as the stars of the cluster.
Nebra sky disc
The Nebra sky disc is a bronze disc about (11.8 inches) across, with gold inlays. Among them is a group of seven stars, usually read as the Pleiades. It was found on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in Germany and is dated to about 1800–1600 BCE.
Nymphs Associated with the Star Cluster Pleiades
| Nymph | Description |
|---|---|
| Maia | Eldest of the Pleiades, mother of Hermes |
| Electra | Mother of Dardanus and Iasion |
| Taygete | Mother of Lacedaemon |
| Alcyone | Mother of Hyrieus by Poseidon |
| Celaeno | Mother of Lycus and Nycteus |
| Sterope (Asterope) | Wife of Oenomaus |
| Merope | Wife of Sisyphus |
| Pleione | Mother of the Pleiades and Hyas |
