Sisters Geass and Hyades. They were named after their father Atlantis, among the Romans they were called Virgil(lat. "Declining"). They are the companions of Artemis, the nymphs in her escort.

In the seven-star, six of them are visible, the seventh is not clear (in ancient times, the latter was given a different mythological explanation, below). Astronomically, it is a star cluster in the constellation Taurus, originally a separate constellation.

According to one of the myths, the Pleiades, overwhelmed by grief over the death of their brother Gias and sisters Hyades, committed suicide, were taken to heaven and turned into a constellation. The bright stars in the Pleiades cluster are named after the seven sisters: Alcyone, Celeno, Maya, Merope, Asterope, Taygeta and Electra .

According to another myth, they committed suicide, upset by the fate of their father, who was doomed to prop up the vault of heaven. Or they turned into doves, pitying their father, and ascended to heaven.

There is another myth, according to which, after Atlant, as a punishment for participating in the battle of the titans against the gods, was doomed to hold the vault of heaven, the hunter Orion began to pursue the Pleiades. The Pleiades, fleeing from his persecution, appealed to the gods for protection. Zeus, in order to calm Atlas and protect his daughters, turned them into doves, who were obliged to wear ambrosia to Zeus (Dodona legend). When the pigeons flew past the colliding floating cliffs of the Plankts, one of the pigeons died, and Zeus revived him (option - replaced with a new one). However, Orion did not stop his persecution. Then Zeus turned the Pleiades into stars, and placed them in the sky in the form of the asterism of the same name in the constellation Taurus, and Orion, as a punishment for his audacity, was turned into the constellation Orion, doomed to unsuccessfully pursue the Pleiades across the sky until the end of time.

There are several different versions of the origin of the name Pleiades. According to one of them, it comes from the name of their mother, Pleione. According to ESBE, it comes from πελειάδες - doves, sometimes reproduced from πλεϊ - sail, as related to nautical navigation: The Pleiades, as Lubker notes, are the stars of navigators. According to Lamprier's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, it comes from the Greek word πλέω - "to sail on the sea, to sail" . Origin from Greek πλεîν (navigation, travel) is explained by the fact that the stars of the Pleiades are observed at night in the Mediterranean Sea from mid-May to early November - a period of active trade travel in ancient times. They were considered the patronesses of sailors, and their ascent in the spring was considered the beginning of the most favorable period for sailing navigation.

“Joyfully, Odysseus strained the sail and, trusting in a fair wind, swam. Sitting in the stern, turning the rudder with a mighty hand, he was awake; sleep did not descend on his Eyes, and he did not bring them down from the Pleiades, from the descending late in the sea of ​​Voot "

Their place of origin is Arcadia, on Mount Killena, they lived on Miracle Mountain. (In connection with the birth on the mountain, their epithet is "mountainous").

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Princess Mary, sitting in the drawing room and listening to these talk and gossip of the old people, did not understand anything from what she heard; she only thought about whether all the guests noticed her father's hostile attitude towards her. She did not even notice the special attention and courtesies that Drubetskoy, who had been in their house for the third time, had shown her throughout this dinner.
Princess Mary with an absent-minded, questioning look turned to Pierre, who, the last of the guests, with a hat in his hand and with a smile on his face, approached her after the prince had left, and they were left alone in the living room.
- Can I sit still? - he said, with his thick body falling into an armchair near Princess Marya.
“Oh yes,” she said. "Didn't you notice anything?" said her look.
Pierre was in a pleasant state of mind after dinner. He looked ahead of him and smiled softly.
- You've known this for a long time. young man, princess? - he said.
- What?
- Drubetskoy?
No, recently...
- What do you like about him?
- Yes, he is a pleasant young man ... Why are you asking me this? - said Princess Mary, continuing to think about her morning conversation with her father.
- Because I made an observation - a young man usually comes from St. Petersburg to Moscow on vacation only with the aim of marrying a rich bride.
You have made this observation! - said Princess Mary.
“Yes,” Pierre continued with a smile, “and this young man now keeps himself in such a way that where there are rich brides, there he is.” I read it like a book. He is now undecided whom he should attack: you or Mademoiselle Julie Karagin. Il est tres assidu aupres d "elle. [He is very attentive to her.]
Does he visit them?
- Very often. And do you know a new way of courting? - Pierre said with a cheerful smile, apparently being in that cheerful spirit of good-natured mockery, for which he so often reproached himself in his diary.
“No,” said Princess Mary.
- Now, to please the Moscow girls - il faut etre melancolique. Et il est tres melancolique aupres de m lle Karagin, [one must be melancholy. And he is very melancholy with m elle Karagin,] - said Pierre.
– Vrayment? [Right?] - said Princess Mary, looking into Pierre's kind face and not ceasing to think about her grief. “It would be easier for me,” she thought, if I decided to believe to someone everything that I feel. And I would like to tell Pierre everything. He is so kind and noble. It would be easier for me. He would give me advice!”
- Would you marry him? Pierre asked.
“Ah, my God, Count, there are such moments when I would go for anyone,” Princess Mary suddenly said, unexpectedly for herself, with tears in her voice. “Ah, how hard it is to love a loved one and feel that ... nothing (she continued in a trembling voice) you can do for him except grief, when you know that you cannot change this. Then one thing - to leave, but where should I go? ...
- What are you, what is the matter with you, princess?
But the princess, without finishing, began to cry.
“I don't know what's wrong with me today. Don't listen to me, forget what I told you.
All Pierre's gaiety vanished. He anxiously questioned the princess, asked her to express everything, to confide her grief to him; but she only repeated that she asked him to forget what she had said, that she did not remember what she had said, and that she had no grief, except for what he knew - grief that the marriage of Prince Andrei threatened to quarrel her father with son.
Have you heard about the Rostovs? she asked to change the conversation. “I was told that they would be coming soon. I also wait for Andre every day. I would like them to meet here.
How does he look at the matter now? asked Pierre, by which he meant the old prince. Princess Mary shook her head.
– But what to do? The year is only a few months away. And it can't be. I would only wish to spare my brother the first few minutes. I wish they would come sooner. I hope to get along with her. You have known them for a long time, - said Princess Marya, - tell me, hand on heart, the whole true truth, what kind of girl is this and how do you find her? But the whole truth; because, you understand, Andrei risks so much by doing this against the will of his father that I would like to know ...
An obscure instinct told Pierre that in these reservations and repeated requests to tell the whole truth, Princess Mary's hostility towards her future daughter-in-law was expressed, that she wanted Pierre not to approve of Prince Andrei's choice; but Pierre said what he felt rather than thought.
"I don't know how to answer your question," he said, blushing, not knowing why. “I definitely don’t know what kind of girl this is; I can't analyze it at all. She is charming. And why, I do not know: that's all that can be said about her. - Princess Mary sighed and the expression on her face said: "Yes, I expected this and was afraid."
- Is she smart? asked Princess Mary. Pierre considered.
“I think not,” he said, “but yes. She does not deign to be smart ... No, she is charming, and nothing more. Princess Mary again shook her head disapprovingly.
“Oh, I so desire to love her!” Tell her that if you see her before me.
“I heard that they will be in the next few days,” said Pierre.
Princess Marya told Pierre her plan of how, as soon as the Rostovs arrived, she would get close to her future daughter-in-law and try to accustom the old prince to her.

Marrying a rich bride in St. Petersburg did not work out for Boris and he came to Moscow for the same purpose. In Moscow, Boris was in indecision between the two richest brides - Julie and Princess Mary. Although Princess Mary, despite her ugliness, seemed to him more attractive than Julie, for some reason he was embarrassed to look after Bolkonskaya. On her last meeting with her, on the old prince's name day, to all his attempts to talk to her about feelings, she answered him inappropriately and obviously did not listen to him.
Julie, on the contrary, although in a special way, peculiar to her alone, but willingly accepted his courtship.
Julie was 27 years old. After the death of her brothers, she became very rich. She was now completely ugly; but I thought that she was not only just as good, but much more attractive than she had been before. She was supported in this delusion by the fact that, firstly, she became a very rich bride, and, secondly, that the older she became, the safer she was for men, the freer it was for men to treat her and, without assuming any obligations, enjoy her dinners, evenings and lively society, gathering with her. A man who ten years ago would have been afraid to go every day to the house where there was a 17-year-old young lady, so as not to compromise her and not to tie himself up, now went to her boldly every day and treated her not as a young lady, but as a a friend who has no gender.

I reread the stories of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin at my leisure ...

"Antonov apples", Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, 1900
“Late at night, when the lights go out in the village, when the sky is already shining high diamond seven-star Stozhar, once again run into the garden. Rustling through dry leaves, like a blind man, you will reach the hut. It’s a little lighter there in the clearing, and the Milky Way is white overhead ... "

Interested ... about what kind of diamond seven-star Stozhar is talking. I did a little research on this issue and now ... I suggest that readers of the green pages get acquainted with some very informative interesting things ;-)

PLEIADES - STAR CLUSTER IN THE CONSTELLATION OF TAURUS

The diamond seven-star Stozhar is the Pleiades- the most famous and spectacularly scattered star cluster in the constellation Taurus(astronomical designation - M45). The brightest star Alcyone(Alcyone - η Taurus / This Taurus). In space, the Pleiades star cluster occupies a region about 15 light years in diameter and contains more than 500 very hot and blue stars, many of which are multiples. The total mass of the stars in the cluster is roughly estimated at 800 solar masses.

In the middle latitudes of Russia, the Pleiades become visible only at the end of summer - rising in the east before dawn. The best conditions for observing the Pleiades are in autumn and winter, when they rise high above the horizon. ancient Russian name the Pleiades star cluster Stozhary or Volosozhary (visazhary).

Mirror of Urania(Urania's mirror) a set of 32 star charts with illustrations of 79 constellations, created on the basis of Alexander Jameson's sky atlas.

In the Pleiades, with the naked eye, you can distinguish from 6 to 9 of the brightest stars. Interestingly, in ancient Greek mythology the Pleiades are the seven sisters ascended to heaven along with their parents, that is the Greeks counted 9 in the Pleiades visible stars , who were given proper names. I invite readers to get to know them better :-)

Alpyone, Alcyone(Alcyone) - η Tau / This Taurus / 25 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 2.85 m Alcyone - multiple star. The brightest of the stars in the Pleiades open cluster.
Elektra(Electra) - 17 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 3.70 m The third brightest star and the hottest of the 10 main stars in the Pleiades open star cluster.
Mayan(Maia) - 20 Taurus. Apparent stellar magnitude: 3.85 m
Merope(Merope) - 23 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 4.10 m
Taygeta(Taigceta) - 19 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 4.30 m Triple star system.
Keleno, Celeno(Celino) - 16 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 5.45 m
Asteropa(Asterope) - 2 stars: 21 Tauri with an apparent magnitude of 5.75 m and 22 Taurus with an apparent magnitude of 6.40 m
Atlant, Atlas(Atlas) - 27 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 3.60 m Triple star system.
playona(Pleione) - 28 Taurus. Apparent magnitude: 5.05 m Double variable star.

Please note that on the map Mirror of Urania, star Merope“stands” away from her sisters and her parents Atlanta and Pleione, it is interesting that she was the only one who connected her fate with a mortal by marrying the Corinthian king Sisyphus. All other Pleiades became beloved of the immortal gods.

Ancient Greek astronomers considered the Pleiades as a separate constellation.. The Pleiades are mentioned by Homer in his inimitable Odyssey and Iliad.

John William Waterhouse(John William Waterhouse; 04/06/1849–02/10/1917) was an English artist whose work is attributed to the later stage of pre-Raphaelitism.

"Odyssey", Homer, VIII-VII centuries. BC e. (translated by Vasily Zhukovsky, 1849)
The description of the voyage of Odysseus from the nymph Calypso to the island of Scheria says:
“... Joyfully, Odysseus strained the sail and, with a fair wind
Trusting, he swam. Sitting at the stern and with a mighty hand
Turning the rudder, he was awake; sleep did not descend on him
Eyes and their he did not take from the Pleiades, from downward late
In the sea of ​​Vooth, from the Bear, in people there are still Chariots
The name of the bearer and near Orion doing forever
Your circle, never bathing yourself in the waters of the ocean ... "

ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY: PLEIADES - SEVEN SISTERS

In ancient Greek mythology Pleiades- Hyades sisters - seven daughters Titan Atlanta and Pleione Oceanids: Alpion, Electra, Maya, Merope, Taygeta, Keleno, Asterope. It is not known for what such faults the Pleiades began to pursue the giant hunter Orion... The sisters begged the gods to save them from persecution, and they turned them first into doves, and then into stars.

In another version of the myth Zeus instructed the Pleiades to carry ambrosia to Olympus. The road to Olympus was difficult, and in each such campaign one of the sisters died. But Zeus did not allow the number of sisters to decrease. Upon his return, he replaced the deceased sister with a new one. Therefore, the number of stars in the Pleiades remained unchanged.

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BIBLE: THE PLEIADES

Pleiades(in the synodal translation - Hima) are mentioned in the Bible ( Job 9:8-9, 38:31).

Church Slavonic
... simple one sky and walk on the sea, as if on the earth:
create plaids and espera, and Arcturus and the treasures of the south:
Did you understand the souz plaad, and did you open the fence of Orion?

synodal
... He alone spreads the heavens and walks on the heights of the sea;
Created As, Kesil and Hima and the hiding places of the south;
Can you tie the knot of Hima and loosen the knots of Kesil?

Modern names of the constellations mentioned in the bible:
ace- constellation Ursa Major.
Kesil the constellation of Orion.
Hima The Pleiades is an open cluster of stars.

I bring to your attention an illustration "Constellation Taurus" from The Witness of the Stars by Doctor of Divinity and biblical scholar William Bullinger.

“... In the first mention of celestial bodies the Bible reveals to us the purpose that the Creator has ordained for them. Genesis 1:14-19(synodal translation): And God said: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to illuminate the earth and to separate the day from the night, and for signs, and times, and days, and years; ... " "Evidence from the Stars"(The witness of the stars) William Bullinger, 1893

Ethelbert William Bullinger(Ethelbert William Bullinger; 12/15/1837 - 06/06/1913) - Anglican clergyman, doctor of divinity, biblical scholar.

LEGENDS OF THE KURSK PROVINCE: VISAZHARS - PLEIADS

And finally, I suggest readers go on a short journey through the star mythology of the peoples of Russia with an amazing book "Under the crystal sky", Daniil Svyatsky, published back in 1913.

Star mythology of the peoples of Russia. Chapter II: The Pleiades
"It's time to get up and thresh - Visazhars are already high in the sky" say the peasants of central Russia in the autumn, getting up in the morning and looking at the starry sky. "Visazhary" is the Pleiades, the second constellation after Ursa, from popular among the people. Its Great Russian name is, apparently, a corrupted Little Russian name of the same constellation "Volosozhary" or "Stozhary". Stozhar it's a haystack; to fry means to heap up, pile up. Volosozhary- this is a bunch, a mop of hair. The Pleiades, indeed, are a group of closely crowded stars in a small area of ​​the sky.

The name Pleiades Volosozharami is of very ancient origin. Russian scribes of pre-Petrine times, in those cases when it was necessary to translate the Greek name of the constellation πλειαδες, used the name wetting, wetting…

Regarding Visazhar, Russian peasants had different beliefs and legends. So in the Kursk province they say that the Lord created from the beginning all the stars are as frequent as Visazhary and the view of the stars was amazing. But then one night people were driving along the road and started talking to each other: “so these Visazhars were imprisoned by my grandfather and I” and then during this conversation they fell into a deep ravine and were crippled, and the Lord began to beat them from the sky with a whip, saying: “do not look in the heavens, look at the wheels. Since then, cripples have appeared in the world, and the stars have become rare, only Visazhars left the Lord frequent for memory…

Regarding the Pleiades, there is also a belief that they are inhabited by spirits and on the last day of the new moon they have a holiday. This belief arose probably because during the period of the new moon, in the absence of the light of the moon, which weakens the brilliance of the stars, the Pleiades group is especially distinguished by its strong brilliance ... "

Afonin Alexander Pavlovich is a contemporary Russian artist. Born in Kursk, in 1966. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Professor of the Department of Painting Russian Academy painting, sculpture and architecture by Ilya Glazunov, head of the landscape workshop.

I urge you to take into account that on a nightingale night you will not be able to admire the Pleiades :-( At night in the summer, the Pleiades (Visazhary) are not visible! On the starry sky Kursk, they will appear only at the end of summer - rising in the east on the eve of dawn. The best conditions for observing the Pleiades in Kursk fall in autumn and winter, when the Pleiades rise high above the horizon and shine in all their brilliant splendor!

Since we have walked in this article from Greece to the Kursk province :-) and indulged in the delights of the nightingale of Kursk, I suggest that readers look at the green pages:
§ Picturesque walk around Kursk (paintings by artists of the gallery "AYA")
§ Kursk antonovka - a symbol Kursk region. Antonovka ordinary aroma unusual ;-)
§ Festival of children's creativity "Our Kursk: Children draw a temple" - the architecture and facades of Orthodox churches in Kursk and the Kursk region.

Creative homework in astronomy

And in conclusion, three tasks dedicated to Stozharam - Pleiades from a wonderful book "300 Astronomy Questions" Vasily Fedorovich Orlov.

Task #1
A participant in the campaign of Alexander the Great in India (326 BC) wrote: “Rice is bred in India in beds flooded with water ... it ripens by the time when the Pleiades come". When did rice ripen in India?

Answer: The Pleiades enter the modern era in April. At 2290 years ago it was about a month later, that is, in May.

Task #2
“Yellow specks of stars danced across the black canopy of the sky, Stozhary smoldered over the very head. "Midnight," Yefim thought, touching the latch ... "- says the story" Mortal Enemy "by Mikhail Sholokhov. The story takes place in Rostov region, whose mean latitude is 47°. Are there Stozhary (Pleiades) at the zenith in the Rostov region?

Answer: The declination of the middle part of the Pleiades is approximately +24°. highest height they are above the horizon in the middle part of the Rostov region approximately 67 °. They cannot be at their zenith.

Task #3
“... On the bank of the stream, she will break the garden and plow it in the spring, but not then, when the Pleiades call the plowman, as the old people say, but on the proper day indicated in the calendar. Here we are talking about the province of Natal in South Africa(about 28° S). Are the Pleiades visible in these places in spring?

Answer: Spring in southern hemisphere happens in September-November. The Pleiades, which are in the constellation Taurus, are visible up to 66 ° S in these months.

I wish you success in self-study astronomy!

§ Excerpts from the works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, which reflect certain physical phenomena and which are peculiar conditions for the questions formulated for them in physics on

Continuation of the previous text. Published in Capital Education. I planned to add it, but, I'm afraid, the hands will not reach soon, so let it hang in this form.

Continuing the conversation about the popular names of the objects of the starry sky, we turn to the Pleiades star cluster, located in the constellation Taurus. These stars are clearly visible to the naked eye, so they very often attracted the attention of different peoples. In "folk astronomy" they usually distinguish six or seven of the brightest stars in this cluster, astronomers count about 1000 stars in it, nine of which have their own names.

Name Pleiades, which is used in astronomy, dates back to antiquity. Greek myths say that the Pleiades ( Πλειάδες ) are the daughters of the titan Atlanta and the oceanid Pleione ( Πληιόνη or Πλειόνη ). Seven stars in ancient times received the names of these daughters: Alcyone (Ἁλκυών), Keleno (Κελαινό), Maya (Μαϊα), Merope (Μερόπη), Asterope or Sterope (Αστερόπή, Στερόπή), Taygeta (Ταϋγέτη), Electra (Ηλα). Two more stars of this cluster were named by astronomers of the new time in honor of the parents of the Pleiades: Atlanta and Pleione.

The myth of the origin of these stars is connected with the myth of Orion. Hyginus, in his Astronomy, describes this myth as follows: “When Pleione and her daughters were passing through Boeotia, Orion, inflamed with desire, wanted to meet with her against her will. She fled, and Orion pursued them unsuccessfully for seven years. But Jupiter took pity on the virgins and placed them among the constellations, and subsequently some astronomers called them the tail of Taurus. Therefore, it seems to the eye that Orion is still pursuing them, fleeing to the west. Ancient authors offered other versions of how the Pleiades arose. After their brother Gias died, he was killed by a lion on a hunt, five of his sisters died of grief and became the Hyades star cluster, seven more committed suicide and turned into the Pleiades. According to another version, the seven daughters of Atlanta committed suicide out of compassion for their father, who was condemned to support the vault of heaven.

Of the seven Pleiades stars, one is inferior to its neighbors in brightness. Ancient authors offered their explanations for this as well. According to one version, the dim star is Merope, who is ashamed of having married a mortal. According to another, this is Electra, who mourns after the destruction of Troy, because her son Dardanus was the founder of the Trojan kingdom. Here is how Ovid sets out both versions in Fasti:

Seven of them are considered, but usually they see six of them.
Or because only six ascended to the gods on the bed -
For Steropa was the wife of Mars, they say,
Maya, Electra, Taygeta were carried away by the almighty Jupiter,
Neptune came as a husband to Celene and came to Alcyone;
Well, the seventh Merope met with the mortal Sisyphus,
She is ashamed, and therefore she hides forever;
Or because it is so. that Trojan devastation Elektra
He is unable to see and covers his face with his hand.

Let us now turn to the stories about the Pleiades of other peoples. Often the Pleiades are perceived as a group, a bunch of any objects. This is evidenced, for example, by their Slavic folk names: heaps, breasts, club(Russian), viper, kipka, bulky(white), gromadki, kupka, kupki(floor.), shards of a star(Bulg.). The common Turkic name Pleiades (Karakhanid ulkar, tour. ulker, head. ulkar, Tatars. olkar, Tuvin. üger) comes from the Proto-Turkic verb *ürk- / *ülk- ‘to huddle in fear, to flee in fear’. This verb is usually used in relation to the herd, so this name is also associated with the idea of ​​the Pleiades as a group of animals.

Many peoples sometimes considered the Pleiades a nest or a hen with chicks. This is evidenced by such names: Ukr. kvochka, quoksha, triggers, white trigger, chicken, hen, floor. kura, kurki, kwozcka, kokoszki, kurchęta, bulg. quack from captive, kokoshka. The Bulgarians said that God warned a widow with many children about the flood, so that she would be saved with her children and the only wealth - a hen with chickens. But leaving the city, the widow, like Lot's wife, violated the ban, looked around and turned to stone with her children. Only the hen and chickens survived and became stars. There is a similar idea outside the Slavic peoples. Pleiadian names such as "chicken", "hens" or "chickens" are widespread in Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, e.g. Italian. Gallinelle'hen', Le sette galline‘seven hens’, Chioccia‘hen’, French Poussiniere‘chicken cage’, La poulerie Saint Jacque‘chicken brood of St. James’. The Pleiades can also be considered a group of other animals. Russian dialects have names hive And duck nest. Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples considered this star cluster to be ducks or their nest.

The Pleiades as animals often appear in myths about hunting. The Khakass told how a hunter chased seven gray ducks for seven years. Ducks turned into stars, that's why the Pleiades are called Hus uzi‘Duck nest’. And the hunter himself became the star of Aldebaran. The Koryaks believed that the Pleiades were a group of deer in which the shooter (Orion) was aiming. The North American Kwakiutl Indians said that the Pleiades is a sea otter pursued by hunters (Orion). Sometimes the Pleiades themselves are the hunters (for example, in the myths of the South American Indians). The Hottentots said that the Pleiades were the wives of Orion, who put him out because he missed and did not get the game.

The Pleiades are often compared to a sieve. The Slavs speak of this by such names: Rus. lattice, white sieve, sitka, chintz, reshata, reshatni, floor. sito, sitko. A similar name is reflected in the poem "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz:

Na północ świeci okrąg gwiaździstego Sita, Circle in the north - luminous Sieve
Przez które Bóg (jak mówią) przesiał ziarnka żyta, It used to be that the creator sowed wheat through it,
Kiedy je z nieba zrucał dla Adama ojca, Which he threw to Adam with compassion
Wygnanego za grzechy z rozkoszy ogrojca. In those days when he punished him with exile.

In northern Italy the Pleiades were called Crivello‘sieve, sieve’. The peoples of the North Caucasus, Iran, the Finns also called them Sith ( seula'sieve', Seulaset‘Pleiades’), Lithuanians ( sitas'sieve', sietynas‘Pleiades’), Latvians, Turkic peoples, Chukchi and Koryaks.

Among the most diverse peoples of the world, the Pleiades are perceived as a group of people, and among some peoples they are women (like the ancient Greeks), while others are men. Known such Slavic names as baby, grandma, women. In legends, they are explained by the fact that Jesus Christ placed women in heaven who refused to show him the way. Or vice versa, as a reward for a treat with bread, he placed a woman and her six daughters in the starry sky (the Germans also told a similar story). And the Bulgarians had the name Haiduti and a legend that the Pleiades were robbers who attacked the traveler, pursued by his fellow tribesmen (the constellation Taurus). The Poles met the name siedem braci‘seven brothers’, the Pleiades and the Serbs considered the seven brothers. But the Ossetians told the following story: the young men asked the seven Pleiades sisters to do the work in order to find out which of them was better; they finished sewing at the same time; they said that only God knows which of them is better and worse, let him place them in heaven. The Pleiades were also considered women by many peoples of Africa, Indians, Chinese, Turks, peoples Far East, North American Indians.

The French had a legend about kings who wanted to bow to the baby Christ. The three kings walked quickly and reached Bethlehem (they became the three stars of Orion's Belt), while the other seven fell behind on the road and turned into the Pleiades.

One of the most popular names among the Slavic peoples comes from the word stozhar‘stick, post in the middle of a haystack’. Most likely, this name reflects the idea of ​​the Pleiades as the center of the sky. Among the examples of Russian stozhary, Belarusian trainees, Ukrainian stozhary, bulg. stozhari, swallowers, lastijari, Slovenian stožercici, Croatian strazenjcici. At Eastern Slavs title Stozhary refers not only to the Pleiades, but also to the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

The names Pleiades are also common among the Slavs, derived from the root vlas-, vlashk- or hair-: st.-slav. wetlands, rus. hair, vysozhary, hair-burners, white valasazar, hairy dawn, Ukrainian volosozar, valasajar, visajars, Slovenian vlastovice. The origin of these names is unclear. They are associated either with the word hair, or with the name of the people Vlachs, or with the name of the pagan god Veles.

Seasonal changes are often associated with the appearance of the Pleiades in the sky. About their Latin name Gigin writes: “These stars were called by our compatriots Vergiliae, because they rise with the onset of spring. They actually enjoy great respect compared to other stars, because their rising marks the onset of summer, while the setting is winter, which is not given to other constellations. The Greeks associated their name with the verb πλεîν ‘to sail on the sea’, since the Pleiades are visible from May to early November - during the sailing season. But in the legends of some Turkic peoples, the Pleiades bring cold to the earth. Usually the hero of such legends breaks or steals several stars, leaving only six in the sky so that the cold is not so strong.

IN Japanese The Pleiades are called subaru(昴). This word is known as the brand name of vehicles manufactured by Fuji Heavy Industries. It was chosen due to the fact that this company arose after the merger of six smaller firms.

In meditation, you need to tune in to the symbol with the pronunciation of its name / title.

“Surprisingly, I saw everything with completely different eyes! It seems that at that time they only showed me something interesting (although even then I was “in touch” with Playone and Alcyone).

And now it’s as if some kind of veil has been removed and I was able to go much deeper, beyond the surface layer of information, as if some kind of memory of something dear and beautiful began to wake up ... An amazing and exciting feeling, difficult to describe in words ... And it doesn’t matter , this is just my experience.

The main thing - thank you very much for your - your (group) work! I know how difficult it is for you to write in Russian, so for this colossal work - a special thank you, dear!”

Santorel

1 - Alcyone (Alcyone) - the central planet

Alcyone central planet / Pleiades star / 7 Sisters.

This seal/symbol shows the foundation of the Holy Temple. In the center of which is the Flower of Life, and above it burns, of inexpressible purity, white Fire.

There are 4 islands around the Flower of Life.

First island: MAAT/Maat in scarlet light. They are priestesses, guardians of the Sword of Justice. They are representatives of spiritual warriors, mentors, teachers.

Second island: Ptah/Ptah in light blue, Ptah group. They are the keepers of the keys or codes of evolution. The key is a tool for discovering secrets. They know the Beginning, Birth, Retention/maintenance, Release/farewell, and Destruction/end of the Grand Cycle. Alpha Omega.

Third island: RA/Ra in burning golden light. They are representatives of the energy of Divine Wisdom. This is the library/Akasha location, where the Akashic Records are kept. They are the keepers of history and memory.

Fourth island: AH-PA/An-Ra in green light. This group represents the energies of sympathy/compassion and mercy/pardon. They are priestesses, initiators of healing knowledge, spiritual teachers. They are also the keepers of the knowledge of the Holy Grail and the well of the Holy Water of Life.

These islands are, in fact, the gates through which we will return back to our centers, where our inner voice, our healing is. Because everything opens up, starts from us. We ourselves are the source / key of everything that we see and live!

A beautiful symbol in which there is an infinity loop, or rather 4 infinity loops.

2 - Merope

MEROPE: She is one of the 7 Sisters, she has the archetype of eternal rebellion, the struggle for freedom.

The light of this star reveals in us the hidden, repressed, packaged dreams/desires and enthusiasms of our “inner child”, the desire for freedom and the power of the creation of Life.

The crisis of adolescence and menopause, in visible and invisible rebellious tendencies, we receive much help from the priestesses of Merop.

3 - Maya

MAYA: This star is the keepers of time.

They deeply know the codes of cosmic history encoded in 12 strands of DNA.

And since ancient times they are healers of bodies and past generations.

In the process of ascension, they help in the transformation of the Light Body, at the cellular level, in the transformation of DNA.

4 - Taigueta

TAIGETA: The archetype of healing ministry defines this star.

With extremely important experience, wisdom, he can teach all healers, mediums and all those who help other souls how to live our destiny in humility, love and light.

5 - Elektra

ELECTRA: The beautiful daughters of this star are priestesses of initiation into tantra. They know the way of completing and returning Home through the body, through the joy of sexual union/orgasm.

On their way there was a lot of pain, shame, humiliation through which they passed back to the Light in which they already live, and we are still looking for ...

They help us to balance our bodies, feelings, dreams, femininity and understand what the holiness of our body means.

In meditation, we can experience deep cleansings, healings that can dissolve the spells of any ancient sexual attachments that are causing physical, emotional problems in our relationships to this day!

6 - Kelaino

KELAINO: This is the star of the "People of Justice" and the indigenous peoples of Australia. This is their Heavenly Home.

In meditation we can find the inner holy well, the source of healing and bring to the surface and transform loneliness, exclusion, feelings of homelessness, hostility, lack of faith in our affected parts.

7 - Sterope

STEROPE: She is the archetype of the purest Woman and Mother, who knows that the mission, the completion of destiny is the creation of a happy loving home, a good woman and a caring mother of children.

A quiet service that seems simple in everyday life, but in fact it is the essence of life - this is the basis from which the path of Life begins, the maturation of a person.

Through the Sterone mirror, we can see our relationship to the home, the ideas of relationships and our memories of the past and the present feelings of motherhood we have experienced.

Pleione/Atlas - Mother/Father

ATLAS/PLIONE: And as mythological history also expresses, they are the Star Couple, the archetype of absolute maternal and paternal perfection.

They are a constantly radiating, luminous, creating, nourishing center in the constellation Pleiades. They are the parent couple from which the sustaining power of Unconditional Love and acceptance always radiates.

In meditation, we can receive healing of our traumas, resentments, conflicts in relationships with our parents. And in the arms of this Star couple, we can heal our “inner child”, which will restore confidence, Strength and Faith in ourselves!

Sun Portal.

GATE OF THE SUN: This place holds the entire cosmic history... past and future.

Here you can see the WAY OF THE SOUL through the eons of incarnations.

Here you can see the ascension spiral of the Pleiades stars/planets revolving around their central sun, Alcyone.

I'm glad you were drawn to these characters! If someone was touched by a symbol... it means there is a relation to the Pleiades, to that planet/star...

This is a very voluminous material ... but I will try to briefly tell.

The layout of the SEVEN SISTERS - PLEIADS

The Pleiades is an open cluster in the constellation Taurus, the astronomical designation is M45. It is perfectly visible to the naked eye, since this cluster of stars is one of the closest to the Earth. And that celestial object has been known since antiquity to many cultures, including Australian Aborigines, Japanese and Indians. North America. Some ancient Greek astronomers even considered it as a separate constellation. The Pleiades are mentioned by Hesiod, and in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and are also mentioned three times in the Bible (Book of Job 9:9, 38:31; Book of the prophet Amos 5:8). Interestingly, one of the names of the Pleiades is the Seven Sisters, although there are much more stars in them. The fact is that the nine brightest stars of the cluster got their names in honor of the seven sisters of the Pleiades from ancient Greek mythology: Alcyone, Keleno, Maya, Merope, Sterope, Taygeta and Electra, as well as their parents - Atlanta and Pleione. And in Russia, the Pleiades were called no less poetically - Stozhary or Volosozhary (although I like the second option much less).

The Pleiades played a huge role in the life and development of ancient civilizations. In Russia, they believed that the Stozhary were an exclusively female amulet, because they were girls who, during their lifetime, glorified the gods so that they took the girls to heaven after their death and turned them into stars in gratitude. Since then, the Stozhars have been guarding the female lot from adversity and every night the star-virgins start their beautiful round dance, so that earthly time does not stop.
And among the Celts, the Pleiades were associated with burial rituals and grief, since during that period of history between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice (Samain), when the ancestral commemoration festivities were held, the Pleiades appeared above the eastern horizon immediately after sunset. But in Beltane you can see them before sunrise!

We offer you a alignment, the creator of which was inspired by the beauty and symbolism of the Pleiades, and perhaps it's time to get acquainted with it Beltane, because right now the sad stars are rising above the horizon!
So, the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, what is special about them? In fact, there are several myths that describe family tragedies from the life of sisters, but I would like to focus only on the two most common. The first story is this - Atlanta, who held the sky on his shoulders, had seven beautiful daughters. Not only did the gods deceitfully force the good-natured giant to hold the sky, they also took his daughters to their beds. All but one - Merope, although the girl and her husband were also unlucky, she chose a hero named .... Sisyphus. At the very least, everyone endured until the appearance of Perseus, who showed the head of the Gorgon Medusa to Atlanta and the giant, of course, turned to stone and turned into a mountain. The Pleiades sisters committed suicide in group from grief, and Zeus, taking pity on them, placed them in the sky - everything will come in handy in the household.

But according to Musaeus, Atlas had 15 daughters, five of them died of anguish and are called Hyades, of the remaining 10, seven committed suicide and are called Pleiades.
After Atlant was doomed to hold the vault of heaven as punishment for participating in the battle of the titans against the gods, the hunter Orion began to pursue the Pleiades. The Pleiades, fleeing from his persecution, appealed to the gods for protection. Zeus, in order to calm Atlas and protect his daughters, turned them into doves, who were obliged to carry ambrosia to Zeus. However, Orion did not stop his persecution. Then Zeus turned the Pleiades into stars and placed them in the sky, and Orion, as a punishment for his insolence, was turned into the constellation Orion, doomed to unsuccessfully pursue the Pleiades across the sky until the end of time.
Now that we know the background, we can move on to the alignment, the positions in which are named after the Seven Sisters.

Layout scheme

1. Alcyone(Ancient Greek Ἁλκυών - kingfisher - beloved of Poseidon, according to legend, she threw herself into the sea) - What does your soul want to cleanse itself of? What needs to be washed away?

2.Asteropa(Steropa) - beloved Ares, her name means Lightning - What needs to be overcome?

3. Keleno, Kelaino (ancient Greek Κελαινό - darkness, blackness, gloom) - she was often called the "Lost Pleiades" because she was struck by lightning according to mythology, beloved of Poseidon - What do you consider "lost", but in reality, it is all still present in your life or destiny? *

4. Elektra(ancient Greek Ηλέκτρα, sometimes Electrion "amber", "bright") - the beloved of Zeus, although according to one of the myths, the latter simply raped her. - What needs to be illuminated?

5. Maya(ancient Greek Μαϊα - mother, nurse) - the eldest and most beautiful of the seven Pleiades sisters, the nymph of the mountains. In the grotto of the Arcadian mountain Kyllene, Maya met Zeus, from him she gave birth to Hermes, who is often called the Killenian. - Wisdom, knowledge to be taken into account.

6. Merope(ancient Greek Μερόπη) - The only one of the Pleiades who married a mortal - King Sisyphus and herself became mortal. After the Pleiades were placed in the sky, Merope became the dimmest and most inconspicuous star, for she is ashamed that she had a mortal husband, according to another version, Merope descended with Sisyphus to Hades. - What lies behind one of the thinnest veils of the year?**

7. Taygeta(ancient Greek Ταϋγέτη) - also the beloved of Zeus, the mother of Lacedaemon, the founder of Sparta, therefore she was considered the patroness of the warrior state. - What is in the process of awareness and understanding? Understanding what will come to you?

Summing Map- The path to be taken.
It is calculated by adding the numerical values ​​​​of all cards (Court cards are not counted). We transform the resulting number until it falls into the numerical range from 1 to 22 - i.e. will not become the number of the key Major Arcana.
For example: the sum of all cards is 95, 9 + 5 \u003d 14, the desired Key Arcana is Moderation!
* Of course, I’m here, I don’t dare to argue with the author of the alignment, but not only Keleno was called the “Lost Pleiades”. Merope and Electra have the same title. Each, however, has its own reason for being so called.
** here, IMHO, it refers to the fact that it is in Beltane and Samhain that the line between the worlds becomes thin and almost invisible. Maybe magic will happen and you will discover the unknown?

WhiteRaven Spread
Translation of the layout and article Bassarida