Pleiades

Shinto

• Pleiades contains Star.

  The Pleiades are a cluster of stars. Subaru is a Japanese name for that cluster, not a separate sky-object.

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Mesopotamian tradition

• Pleiades appears in MUL.APIN.

  MUL.APIN lists the cluster among Mesopotamian star-names (MUL.MUL and related entries). A cuneiform list, not a Greek catasterism.

  from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier

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• Pleiades is associated with Calendar.

  Several cultures have used the cluster’s heliacal rising or visibility as a year-mark. Each calendar is local.

  from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier; Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017

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• Pleiades is associated with Star.

  The cluster is stars. Names and jobs remain local.

  from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier; Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017

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Hellenic religion

• Pleiades is associated with Seven.

  Greek and later European speech calls them seven sisters. The cluster’s bright members are not always seven to every eye, and Matariki is not that myth.

  from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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Māori tradition · Aotearoa

• Matariki represents Pleiades.

  Matariki is the Māori name and year-mark of the Pleiades cluster. Same lights, a different calendar and gathering.

  from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017

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