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Last Topic: 9:28:10pm, 01/28/2024
Last Post: 12:45:42pm, 05/10/2024
FurryPhilosifer posted...
I quoted that info from my friend verbatim. I'll pass on your corrections.
Sorry everyone. I'm sorry for letting you all down.
Ah, no worries. Didn't mean it to sound combative or anything. It just didn't sound right to me so I looked it up. Found the "study" from about 4 years ago that your friend probably got it from. They were very preliminary findings, based more on speculation than actual evidence, which isn't his (or yours) fault. The 100k years thing comes from the fact that humanity is believed to have started in Africa about that long ago before migrating out to the rest of the world. And since many aboriginal cultures have oral tradition legends/myths that are strikingly similar (including the whole "there's 7, but you can only see 6, because one of them fled or hid) they presumed those myths must have all come from a common origin when we were all together in the same place. Africa, 100k years ago.
Turns out it's much more likely that the Pleiades are referenced across the world in myths because they're a prominent formation of very bright stars in the sky AND they happen to be in a very important location in the sky (it's right at the ecliptic, and marks the vernal point for the spring equinox). So it makes sense many cultures would take notice. And as far as the stories about one of the 'sisters' hiding, that's most likely because two of the 7 brightest stars are very close to each other. So on a hazy day or with bad eyesight, they can be difficult to distinguish as 2 separate stars. Hence, there are 7 of them that people could see and name, but occasionally one of them would seem to disappear when conditions weren't quite right.
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