Pleiades (mythology). Starry sky: Pleiades Structure and composition

Intelligent beings from the system of planets of the Alcyone Star, which is located in the Pleiades - a star cluster in the constellation Taurus (Greek Pleides - the seven daughters of Pleione and Atlanta) - have a body very similar to ours, perhaps more perfect, or, if possible, so expressed, more refined, more elegant, more graceful and more harmonious than ours. Through light clothing, one could notice that their bodies were not only perfectly and proportionately folded, but also very muscular, as if poured from within with mighty strength.

This was even more impressive because the vast majority of my friends, the Pleiadians, or as they call themselves - the Herrians (from the name of the planet of their main habitat - Gerra), were much taller than me - although I myself do not belong to the small ten and my height is 1m 85cm. Almost all of them, with the exception of only a few of the inhabitants, whom they called "guests", had a European type of face with the same light, but more elastic, thin skin as ours.

The guests were somewhat shorter than me or the same height as me, but their skin color varied from yellow-gray and fiery red to dark brown, like the representatives of our Negroid human race. In one of the super-huge laboratories in which the processes preceding the birth, formation and disappearance of the Universes were tested (only, of course, on a much smaller scale), I was introduced to some of the guests, very high-level specialists who came from the Sirius system.

Their Star Sirius-A, which is many thousands of times brighter than our Sun, is the main of the main Stars of this system, performing the functions of a Portal or a Gate connecting one Space-Time dimension with another. It has a very powerful radiation and the processes taking place on it and in it greatly influence the course of events here on Earth.

Unfortunately, I did not remember their names, but they were all from that civilization of the Sirians, whose representatives who visited us on Earth at different periods of our history are usually called "gods from Sirius". Basically, these gods have a much darker skin color than the true Gerrians, but, in addition, there are also many purely external differences between them, which are explained by the fact that in their genotype there are genes belonging to non-human intelligent races, which, being mammals were more like our reptiles or insects.

It was these genetic roots that determined all the differences by which the "guests" could immediately be distinguished among any number of the Pleiadian Gerrians dear to my heart. The true Gerrians, purely outwardly, are indeed very similar to us, earthlings, in any case, to a much greater extent than any of the representatives of other space civilizations with whom I have had to communicate so far.

Of course, I do not mean our internal differences - both purely physical and spiritual - which are imposed by the peculiarities and differences in the surrounding us and their realities. But they also once, albeit a very long time ago, went through in their inner sensations approximately the same thing that we are just trying to go through now. Therefore, so many things bring us together and unite us not only externally, but also internally.

As Ora, who accompanied me on my journey around the planet, explained to me, these qualities of the current Pleiadian-Gerrians - high growth and muscularity - were formed due to the Life of many and many generations of this civilization on a planet with much greater forces of gravity and electromagnetic field than on Gerra. But on the other hand, their qualities such as good nature, cordiality, as well as their constant spiritual need and readiness to help someone at any moment, give their Love, care and warmth of their Soul, or at least be useful to someone in some way - then, - they are not at all inferior to their external beauty and their mighty, truly "inhuman" strength.

Their ultra-finely structured emotional bodies were able to harmoniously form only due to their constant focus on leaving, on avoiding the intrusion into their Life of negativity in any of its manifestations. By their own example, they proved to many of the other civilizations, also belonging to the Pleiades star cluster, that by constantly suppressing negative qualities in themselves, any civilization can achieve the predominance of a positive process in its evolutionary growth and spiritual development.

This direction of evolutionary development is significantly different from our earthly bias, which is based on the desire of most people on Earth to acquire inner neutrality in themselves (at best!), as one of the constituent parts of Harmony. But our problem is that in our search for this "middle" we often brush aside not only overt negativity, but also the development of emotional positivity in ourselves. Our pathological tendency to divide everything and everything is the true cause of many of our endless problems. But back to Gerra.

The color of the hair of those of the inhabitants of Gerra with whom I had to communicate during the astral journey varied from yellow-wheat or almost white to light brown, and of some inhabitants even chestnut. But from the very first moments of our acquaintance, I was literally struck by their very expressive eyes, which, upon closer and more careful examination, not only differed from human eyes in the shape, size and color of the iris, but, as I found out a little later , and by their unique abilities to reflect and refract the rays of Light.

None of the physical and even astral forms of man has anything like it, which could emphasize our divine origin to such a large extent. Even the most beautiful human eyes, compared with theirs, would seem just fishy and inexpressive. Yes, how far we are from them and how imperfect! And they also say that we are created in their image and likeness ... Yes, we are just pale ghosts compared to them!

Noticing the despondency that gripped me about this, the girl named Ora who accompanied me smiled quite charmingly and, waving her hand, immediately materialized in space the phantom of one of the Pleiadians, who smiled friendly at me and, putting his right hand to his heart, greeted me. This Pleiadian, who appeared literally out of nowhere, immediately seemed to me something close and very familiar. Perhaps I have already telepathically communicated with him on the Ray of Contact?

Before I even thought about it, Ora telepathized that this beautiful Being, which I admire so much, is THE SAME Oris, whom I had never seen before, but who constantly resides not only next to me, but also in me. because, materializing on the astro-physical level of the Earth, it was he, Oris, who spiritualized the Matter of these Plans with his Consciousness, gave me Life and created me as an earthly person.

I stood dumbfounded by this unexpected meeting and did not even have time to yell when the Pleiadian Oris, coming close to me to greet me, hugged me by the shoulders and immediately merged with me again. My bewildered and stupid look from the side was probably a very funny sight, because Ora immediately began to laugh merrily and jump slightly on the spot, clapping her thin, graceful hands, well, exactly the same as they sometimes laugh - cheerfully and from souls are our earthly girls.

In my opinion, no one, even from representatives of the Higher Spiritual Beings, possesses such cheerful, provocative, life-loving and sincere qualities, which compare favorably with all my wonderful friends on the Contact Ray my "new" Gerrian friends. “Just as you and he are essentially one whole,” she telepathized to me, finally resting from laughter, “so Oris is an inseparable part with our civilization.

Wherever we incarnate, no matter what remote areas of our Universe we spiritualize with our presence, we are always connected by invisible threads with our Spiritual Motherland, with our Home, which always help us to survive, even in the most difficult conditions. Wherever we "die", disembodied from the Matter of the Plans created by us, we always return here, to our home, where everyone knows each other, everyone loves each other and always impatiently awaits the return of each of our Brothers or Sisters. From now on, this is your Motherland, your Home, where you will always strive, because you are one of us!"

Ora, continuing to smile charmingly, put her hand on my Heart and I immediately felt such an all-encompassing Love for everything that surrounded me, which I had never experienced for anyone before. Many, many of the hundreds and thousands of incarnations of Oris instantly flashed through my deep memory, and I literally physically, with my whole being, immediately felt my wholeness and indissolubility with that World, in which, as it seemed to me, I just visited for the first time now, but about which, as it turned out, already knew so much.

They, that is, this civilization, obey the same Universal Laws of the Cosmos as we do, and the material forms of the expression of the Spirit in the rough Matter of the Physical Plan are very similar with us and with them. But the very measurement of their densest Plan, the frequency of vibrations of their "physical" Matter, and hence its properties, turned out to be completely different than we have on Earth. By the way, their entire existence, according to the degree of intensity or creative activity, takes place, basically, not on the third, like ours, but on the fourth and fifth levels of the density of Matter, which also have a much larger number of time ordinates than the same levels of the earthly Space.

Our flora and fauna, but only in purely general terms, are also very similar, if you do not take into account that they not only have every animal, but also every plant has a much greater degree, if I may say so, of "reasonableness" and self-expression, than we have on earth. Several tens of thousands of years ago, this civilization even had its own colony on Earth. I even remember that the greeting in their telepathic language sounds like "ealaado". It occurred to me: does the Greek "Hellas" mean the same thing - "hello!" or "hello!"? The names of those with whom I had a chance to personally communicate telepathically during the trip sounded something like this: Ora, Aalan, Adoniesis, Goara, Vudok.

Their Evolution, which began billions of years earlier than ours and took place in completely different space-time conditions, in contrast to the Evolution of earthly humanity suffering from spiritual convulsions and numerous cataclysms, was carried out much more quickly, and the main root cause of their spiritual and intellectual ascent was the unrelenting Will to win. over degenerative and destructive forces, as well as the awareness of the need to rise above all weaknesses caused by the forced loss of inner balance.

Their concept of Freedom, in contrast to our perverted and selfish, earthly understanding, is completely devoid of negativity, and that state of balanced bliss and harmony in which they all reside is strengthened by their deep inner peace, harmony and that healthy certainty that is communicated to them by boundless confidence. in that AS THEY SERVE THE HIGHER, SO THE HIGHER SERVES THEM.

Here is what the radiant Goara, who accompanied me on this astral journey, telepathized about this: “We are merged into one with the Almighty Will of the Creator, which, being the distributor of Love and life-giving Light, is also the balancing dynamism of all instincts that various dimensions offer on the experimental Planes of Existence.

Our Science, like our Wisdom, are the fruits of our Will and aspiration to possess the Knowledge and Secrets of the Primary Elements, which form the basis of both Creations, as well as predominate over the corresponding anti-degenerative Forces of the Cosmos and over all the dynamisms that structure the numerous aggregative levels of atomic and subatomic vibration frequencies that are used what you call Archangels, Cherubim, Seraphim, and Thrones."

They help us not only because they are our forefathers and great-descendants at the same time, but also because they live and act according to the Law of Love for their neighbor. It is not necessary to think that they have already solved all their problems and now they are only enjoying the achieved perfection. Probably, they have not only no less problems, but even much more than we have, but now they solve them completely differently, strictly adhering to the Seven Universal Laws of the Cosmos and avoiding open conflicts with other, more cruel and aggressive civilizations in the same Pleiades.

From communication with them, I realized that in the Cosmos surrounding them there are still some red-haired races or civilizations that are distinguished by extreme aggressiveness and rebellious unrestraint of morals. The experience that they acquire is based on constant conflicts, eternal disagreement with everyone and the constant desire to prove to everyone and everything that they are right and exclusive knowledge of the Truth. From the voluminous "live" pictures that they showed me, I concluded that that type of red-haired Pleiadians is much lower and "thinner", so to speak - much thinner than any of my giant friends, but the ambition and self-importance of them, nevertheless less, do not borrow.

Telling me about herself, Goara also telepathized that, at one time, a part of the Consciousnesses of this indefatigable and passionate race, incarnated in earthly bodies, thereby giving rise to a red-haired human hybrid, which differs from other people of the Earth in its characteristic assertiveness, ardor and irresistibility, capable of driving these people literally to madness, if the obstacles in their path become insurmountable.

Another beautiful Goara showed me several other types of civilizations that came from other constellations, in particular from the constellation Lyra, and now also inhabiting some planetary systems of the Pleiades, which are very similar in appearance to birds and cats, but which, nevertheless, differ much more development of intelligence in comparison with us, earthlings. We would look like small children in the presence of adults next to them.

If bird-like humanoids are distinguished by extreme restraint, coldness and impassivity, then cat-humanoids are more gentle and sensual by nature, although the characters of both of them are far from angelic. Goara noted that she showed all this to me only so that, thanks to my stories about them, the people of Earth would understand that, just as we humans cannot be judged in a generalized way, so the Pleiadians who are in contact with earthlings cannot be reduced all " one size fits all", so great is the range that distinguishes them on the basis of spirituality, rationality and peacefulness, both in relation to their own kind, and in relation to other space civilizations.

Of course, our spiritual Teachers could help us in solving all our problems on a much larger scale, but according to the Cosmic Laws, they do not have the right to forcibly interfere with the natural development and maturation of the Consciousnesses of earthly humanity within the limits of the Material Creation. We, earthlings, have to find the right solutions and ways out of impasses ourselves, into which we drive ourselves, not wanting to admit that the driving Force of Evolution is not so much Reason as Love, or rather, their balanced combination.

Therefore, their civilization is limited only by invisible help, the essence of which lies in the fact that the crews of their spaceships make great efforts to constantly bring into a state of balance and balance that balance of Forces, which we, people, with our barbaric attitude towards Nature, more and more we deduce globally from the norm.

Many of the people with whom they maintain constant telepathic contact were specially incarnated on Earth from the Pleiades in order to create here direct energy-information channels for connecting the Consciousnesses from their civilization with the humanity of the Earth. Many of these people, when the time comes for active involvement in common work, in one way or another learn about their extraterrestrial origin, while others only suspect about it and, nevertheless, feel positively motivated through the awareness of their belonging to a highly spiritual civilization and therefore with joyfully join those who are clearly aware of their extraterrestrial origin, forming contact groups with them and selflessly helping each other.

No other goal is able to unite people who did not know each other so closely as the realization of their common belonging to a distant cosmic Motherland, the memory of which is stored only deep in the subconscious. Personally, I cannot observe the selfless devotion of incarnated extraterrestrial beings who voluntarily sacrificed themselves for the sake of saving deeply fallen humanity without tears of heartfelt tenderness.

In August 1997, through the Ray of Contact, I received information from my Teachers that there are quite strong groups of people-contactees with the Pleiades in Zurich and Vienna, and there is also the main part of the Consciousnesses from the Pleiades and Sirius, specially embodied to assist in the unfolding me a mission. Therefore, I was not at all surprised when it was from Switzerland that readers instantly and enthusiastically responded to the appearance of my first book from the Life Between Lives series.

Now the main part of my entire "support group" is concentrated in this country, consisting of wonderful, altruistic and infinitely kind embodied Consciousnesses of the Pleiadians and Sirians. Who are they and how can they be recognized among the multi-million crowd of NON-HUMANS surrounding us? These are those who live in organic harmony with the Commandments of Christ.

They are never either ministers or politicians in power, or church ministers of high ranks, ostensibly in charge of divine manifestations, because all this is an expression of justice and love only in our purely earthly understanding, poisoned by false piety and selfishness. Civilization from the Pleiades has three so-called strongholds or space stations in the Space of our planet, where they arrive at certain intervals of Time.

One of these stations is located over the territory of Russia (Ural Mountains), the second - over Switzerland (Alps), and the third - over South America (periodically this station drifts to the territory of the USA and then back). They are located approximately at an altitude of about 6-7 thousand kilometers above the solid surface of the Earth, and each of these stations is about 35-50 kilometers long and is capable of a completely autonomous existence for very long time periods.

By their design, these stations are very different from each other: the one that "hangs" over Russia, slightly drifting from the Ural Mountains to the borders of Eastern Siberia, has a more elongated configuration in Space than the "Swiss" space station, consisting of four absolutely transparent spheres , each with a diameter of about 15 km. Three auxiliary production areas, with the help of long corridors of 5-6 km each, are connected at an obtuse angle with the central, larger area, in which, in addition to the command post, there are huge rooms for rest and rehabilitation of service personnel, as well as compartments garages for shuttle ships of 2-5 orders.

All this transparent construction occupies about 125,000 cubic kilometers in the fourth level of the Earth's Space! We can see or photograph their shuttles, controlled by the Intermediaries of the first and second orders or the biorobots created by them, only when the continuously moving hyperenergy shield that surrounds each of the spaceships like an invisible ball is removed.

Hyperenergy has a remarkable property to significantly accelerate the movement of particles of Matter, as a result of which its contours cannot be captured either by the human eye or by other means available to us. By the way, during one of the mental exits, I received information that at a distance of about 90 thousand kilometers from the Moon, in its orbit, there is another spaceship station of one of the civilizations located in the constellation Leo, in the planetary system Zeta.

On board this station there are constantly about 80 humanoids, short in stature (from 1 to 1.5 m) and very frail in appearance, who have at their disposal 28 aircraft of the third and fourth orders, shuttle type, with crews consisting mainly of biorobots. The purpose with which they visit the Earth and study people is one: here they try and hope to regain, lost a long time ago as a result of transformation, genetic aspects in order to try to re-embed them into their genotype, otherwise they are doomed to evolutionary failure.

Among earthlings, they are looking for Consciousnesses belonging to one of the civilizations of the Vega constellation, which, having passed even through hundreds of earthly incarnations, managed to preserve their original DNA in the cells of the protein-nucleic complex, although already self-improved and adapted to a new, more perfect earthly form. We, the people of the Earth, who are an excellent mixture of several galactic races, carry inside ourselves, in our physical bodies, all the information about our cosmic past, which for some of the aliens who have lost the emotional and other aspects of their existence, is the key to their future.

This is a truly priceless heritage that we got, as they say, "gift" and therefore we do not realize all its true value as for ourselves. and for the entire universe. Therefore, we are so ruthless and cruel towards our own kind, and if it were not for the timely and effective invisible help to smooth out critical situations provided to humanity from the outside by other Higher space civilizations, we would not have been able to exist here for a long time due to strong radioactive radiation and environmental pollution.

Radiation exposure, which has increased hundreds of times in recent years due to unstoppable and uncontrolled pollution of the environment, has already caused much more severe damage and destructive mutation of the cells of our physical bodies than our doctors and scientists imagine. Some dangerous processes in cells begin to move into the stage of irreversibility.

The immune system is becoming more and more unstable, which led to the emergence of new dangerous diseases, of which AIDS is only the first sign of the approaching severe trials of mankind. New diseases of humanity will be associated with the destabilization of the energy of the astral body, which will have a very painful effect on the state of internal organs.

Environmental pollution and increased background radiation will primarily affect the skin of people. Many useful insects and birds will disappear, including bees, with the disappearance of which humanity will deprive itself of such valuable medicines as honey, propolis, bee milk and bee venom. In recent years, humanity that has gone out of its mind has the opportunity to enjoy garlic, onions, honey and many other valuable natural healing products that will very soon cease to exist on the mortally stricken Earth.

On the part of the Pleiadians and Sirians, aircraft are used with great care and only for the purpose of obtaining from the Earth the cellular material of plants, animals and humans in order to determine the scale and degree of danger of our thoughtless destruction of the surrounding world. Since all of their UFOs work on hyperenergy, they also put an additional burden on the energy balance of Space. Therefore, they interrupt the phases of their research on Earth for long periods.

I already wrote that the very Life of this civilization, its reality and the very vibrational state of the Pleiadians exist in a completely different, different from ours, Space-Time. Therefore, it is simply impossible to describe their life from the standpoint of our understanding - they have only something in Space that very vaguely resembles our Physical Plan. While traveling in the etheric body, I saw houses of an unusual architectural form: a general impression of the synthesis of several pyramids, but not with smooth surfaces, but with various ledges, compartments, etc.

Abundant, continuously changing dark emerald-light green vegetation (grass, shrubs and trees) fills the entire space between the structures. Both the outer and inner walls of the buildings, as well as the floor and even the staircase, connecting several floors of the house with gentle wide steps, are, as it were, made up of parallelepipeds and cubes of various sizes, resembling bulk glass in structure, very tightly fitted to each other and having no seams, no gaps at the joints.

There are also no metal building frames, which further strengthened the impression that all these houses were simply glued together from some very light snow-white, bluish and lilac blocks. Although the houses give the impression of being transparent, it is impossible to see from the outside what is happening or what is inside the building. From the inside, the walls are also impenetrable, although they completely let diffused sunlight (or the energy of another source of radiation) through themselves, therefore there were no windows in these walls either.

In order to see something outside the building, one had only to approach any of the cells, focus on the desire to see the "street" and it immediately dissolved, providing an opportunity not only for an excellent view, but also for hearing all sounds. As soon as the need for this disappeared, the cell immediately appeared again - dense and voluminous. The luminary itself was dazzlingly white, without the golden hue characteristic of our sunlight, and created a slightly chilly feeling. Although it was quite low above the surface, neither heat nor any discomfort was felt.

Roofs, in our understanding, - gable or dome-shaped, - were also nowhere to be seen: instead of a roof, the entire structure ended at the top with the same transparent-looking block-cells. Each house has several main (public) entrances and exits, about 10 m high and 5-6 m wide, located in different parts of it.

But only such an opening can be found only by approaching it at a distance of at least 5 m: one of the blocks suddenly disappears, as if dissolving into Space, and when you enter the room, it silently acquires density again. Each "apartment" also has an individual opening-cell. There are no doors, bolts and locks familiar to our homes.

There is very little furniture: almost everything that does not belong to the number of items of permanent use is hidden in blocks and appears at the first request in the same way as the entrance to the building: the block loses its density and opens access to its contents. Inside the building, almost all objects had the shape of either an oval, or a ball, or a parallelepiped, and the purpose of each of them was completely incomprehensible to me, only armchairs enveloping the whole body with high, comfortable backs and soft armrests, and tables made up of already familiar, smooth to the touch, parallelepipeds, remotely resembled at least something earthly.

Unlike wall cells, furniture cells were not transparent, but were practically weightless. The colors of the walls and objects smoothly transition from white to pleasant pastel colors. The white parallelepipeds of the table tops were supported not by legs, as we have on Earth, but by volume arcs made of the same material. Each of the chairs can respond to at least 5-10 types of brain radiation and activate the mechanisms associated with the implementation of these radiations.

For example, sitting in a chair, you can instantly recreate around yourself a hologram of your thoughts related to landscapes, sensations, sounds, emotions. The images that appear at the same time have features so close to reality that it becomes simply uncomfortable out of habit. But the landscapes and pictures of nature that arise in the imagination simply delight the heart: white birch trees, slightly swaying with green braids, quietly rustle over the cliff of a wide emerald-blue river; the birds are chirping merrily, the sun is shining brightly, the white lambs of the clouds are floating smoothly ...

They live according to the Laws of the Cosmos: everyone creates for himself and at the same time - for everyone. The rules of social and interpersonal relations are built on the same Laws. The misdeeds (in their understanding) of one of the members of society are punished only in moral or spiritual terms, leaving the stumbler to determine the measure of perniciousness and danger to his spiritual Essence and to society as a whole, the consequences of his mistake, but the death penalty (in our understanding and execution ) They dont have. There is only a voluntary measure to intensively increase the level of spiritual vibrations. They believe that only God the Creator, who gave Life to every cosmic being, can take it back.

Religion, in our understanding of it as a public organization or movement, does not exist among them - power structures always arise in organizations, on the basis of which fanaticism grows very quickly - the most dangerous and biggest enemy of free Will and Love. We, people, have the opportunity to be convinced of this by the example of the transformation, on the basis of the blind fanaticism of believers, the most powerful religious Egregors from those initially created as spiritual energy structures into spiritually corrupting Consciousness, demonic Egregors.

I was warned (for the umpteenth time already!) that there are Forces in the Cosmos belonging to the "Dark Ring", which are interested in the spiritual capture of the humanity of the Earth. Moreover, we are talking about Forces of such an intergalactic scale and power that we cannot even imagine. Since the Earth is the weakest link in the entire chain of Worlds in our Solar System and the place of the greatest aggression of Cosmo-Evil, it is considered by the Hierarchy of the Dark Forces as a springboard for their subsequent mastery of our entire Solar System, and beyond it - the entire Galaxy.

The Commonwealth of Civilizations of the "Light Ring" constantly stands guard over our interests, since we ourselves, except for Love and Harmony, which we practically do not have left, cannot oppose anything against this Evil. Here the battle is not with nuclear or hydrogen bombs, but with the help of substances invisible to the physical senses that destroy the brains of people and the cells of internal organs. But a particularly dangerous weapon is considered to be the generation of waves that suppress the Will and Spirit of a person and allow hosts of spiritually and evolutionarily underdeveloped cosmic Consciousnesses, most often belonging to other, extraterrestrial Worlds or Antiworlds, to freely penetrate into human forms. If human madness is not curbed in time, then terrible, in terms of their cosmic scale, consequences can occur.

During parting with the representatives of this wonderful HUMAN civilization, I was informed that we ourselves are both the authors and at the same time the executors of the space program for the physical and gross astral destruction of all human Consciousnesses lagging behind in their evolutionary development, which will certainly be put into action, unless we can get on the right, spiritual path of development.

Will it be in 2013 or even earlier - in 2002?.. The Apostle Peter himself warned of the approaching times: "The day of the Lord will come, like a thief in the night; things will also burn out on it ... "It should, perhaps, each of us think deeply about HOW HE LIVED and HOW HE LIVES, and not wait for the end, trying in an insane thirst to satisfy all our crazy desires to snatch everything from Life that only you can, but try for the time remaining before the Transfiguration, at least try to make up for what was so thoughtlessly missed in spiritual development, in order to create conditions in your field shell for the sound of the highest possible energy vibrations.

I can’t say exactly how long, according to their Pleiadian concepts, I stayed at a party (or at home?), because their Time is not measured by external, that is, objective influences that dictate, as on Earth, the flow of Time, but only in accordance with their subjective, inner feelings. I was almost blinded by the magnificence, beauty and that feeling of universal Rage that literally permeated the entire atmosphere of the Space of this amazing planet and its no less amazing inhabitants. Therefore, having returned to the physical body, I could not come to my senses for a long time and continued to mentally stay there until the very morning, going over in my Mind all the nuances of communication with these wonderful people who managed to achieve god-likeness.

At one time, I picked up a lot of photos from the Google sky program

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. The names of the Pleiades such as "chicken", "hens" or "chickens" are widespread in Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, for example, 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 of the 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. The Eastern Slavs have a name 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.

« Constellation Pleiades- the most famous star cluster. Because Constellation Pleiades can be clearly seen in the night sky, it has been known to earthlings since ancient times. The first mention of Constellation Pleiades found in Chinese chronicles dating from about 2300 BC. The earliest European sources that mention Constellation Pleiades, is a poem by Hesiod (ca. 1000 BC) and the Odyssey by Homer.”

In Japanese, "Subaru" means "to unite", although the same word refers to a cluster of six stars in the constellation of Taurus, named by the ancient Greeks. Pleiades.

In ancient times, it was believed that these stars represent the seven daughters of the characters of Greek mythology - Atlas and Plion.

But how can there be seven daughters and only six stars in the constellation Pleiades?

There are actually seven stars, but only six of them can be seen with the naked eye.

seven daughters

The names of these seven daughters are as follows: Alcyone The queen who repels evil. Alcyone is the central and largest star in the Pleiades constellation. It is often seen as representing an entire cluster of stars. Asteropa A double star in the constellation Pleiades, literally translated as "lightning". Meropu The only one married to a mortal, her star does not shine as brightly as the others. Maya The eldest of seven sisters. They say that she is the most beautiful. According to Greek myths, Maya was the favorite of Zeus and gave birth to Hermes. Taygeta After Zeus defiled her in an unconscious state, she went on a wandering. Keleno She was the wife of Poseidon. In translation, her name means "darkness" or "blackness". Keleno is sometimes referred to as the lost galaxy, as this star is sometimes difficult to see with the naked eye. Elektra The third brightest star in the constellation. Electra means "amber", "shining" and "bright". This sister was the wife of Coritus. She seduced Zeus and gave birth to Dardanus, who became the founder of Troy.

Pleiades

star cluster Pleiades, also known as seven sisters and Messier 45, quite visible in the night sky.

In general, there are hundreds of stars in the cluster, but only a few of them can be seen with the naked eye.

The stars in the Pleiades are believed to have formed about 100 million years ago, which means they are 50 times younger than our Sun.

These objects are located at a distance of approximately 130 parsecs (425 light years) from Earth.

They are visible in the constellation Taurus, with approximate celestial coordinates of 3 hours 47 minutes in right ascension and +24° declination.

For residents of northern regions cluster is above and to the right of Orion the Hunter when facing south, and passes to its highest point in the sky halfway between sunrise and sunset—about 4 am in September, midnight in November, and 8 pm in January.

Under very good weather conditions, some people see up to 10 stars in a cluster at night.

Thanks to binoculars and a small telescope, you can see a much larger number of stars included in the constellation Pleiades, covering approximately one degree of the sky.

At least 300 stars are members of the group, which is 400 light-years from Earth.

Alien Race Pleiadians

Alien Race Pleiadians, have existed for a very long time, and their ancestors came in general in unimaginably old times from another universe that has reached completeness - unity.

earth Pleiadians are visiting to help humanity achieve such perfection while on one planet.

The current time period is very important in this regard, and what happens on Earth will affect the entire universe.

Completion is about people understanding who they are and continuing the experiment.

Ancestors Pleiadians came from the universe, realizing itself as a unity, realizing that it is inseparable from the Creator, or the First Cause, and is the Creator's journey through time.

These ancestors came from a universe whose essence was creativity. So they realized that they themselves are creators.

These ancestors Pleiadians were one of those who founded various worlds, created civilizations, and did it admirably. The earth also was not bypassed by their attention.

So, it turns out that the ancestors Pleiadians are also the ancestors of earthlings - our very old ancestors.

Allegedly, they shared their DNA with those who worked on the "Initial Plan", and it entered the human genome.

There are countless worlds in the vast expanses of space, and their inhabitants have been visiting the Earth since time immemorial.

Not only Pleiadians help people, this is just one group of many who want to show a person the right path of development.

aliens come to our planet for a variety of reasons.

In most cases, highly developed aliens want to help people move to the next level of development, although there are also unfriendly aliens whose tasks are completely different.

Appearance Pleiadians has a humanoid form, reminiscent of elves and emits light.

Their average height is higher than a human, their appearance is feminine.

By nature, they are friendly and peaceful, inquisitive and calm.

Some of them are able to appear before people only as a radiant form that has a white-blue color.

People began to deify "aliens from heaven", like children who look at their parents doing things that little ones can not do, and idealize them.

The three-dimensional world contains a great challenge, because in such conditions very severe restrictions are possible that form certain structures.

Participation in this process of people is creativity for them. A person recognizes himself as a part of the Creator, who, in turn, receives life experience through people.

There is information that Pleiadians advise people to ask questions, to find out more alternative opinions on this or that serious issue.

They warn that only people, and not they, are responsible for their lives, decide which path to take.

Pleiadians they just give hints, but the final decision is still made by the person.

aliens tell us that the answers to questions must be sought in the depths of our souls.

Questions arise in the human mind, and the answer comes from the very depths of our being.

And to get answers, the first step is to believe that all the necessary information is actually contained within us!

The Pleiades is an open star cluster that has over 1000 stars, of which we see only fourteen.

The Pleiades is an open star cluster known to the inhabitants of our planet since ancient times. As soon as the ancient Slavs did not call this constellation: “Stozhary”, “Seven Sisters”, etc. Today, both domestic and foreign astronomers know for certain that there are not seven pleiades at all. This asterism has over a thousand stars that originated from a single molecular cloud. This means that these celestial bodies are united by a common structure, composition, and are also close to each other in age. According to the Hertzsprung-Russell theory, which allows you to determine the approximate age of stars, focusing on the stage of their evolutionary period in which they are currently located, the age of the pleiades is approximately 75-150 million years. Such a wide scatter in the age of the stars in this cluster is due to the imperfection of the method of its calculation mentioned above.

A more accurate age of the Pleiades can be determined by analyzing one of the smallest objects of this asterism - brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stars that can retain lithium in their mass for a sufficiently long period of time. In simple stars, this chemical element burns out almost immediately after their formation. Thus, by discovering the oldest brown dwarfs in the Pleiades, it is possible to determine the age of the entire star cluster that originated from a common molecular cloud. According to the results obtained using this method, the age of the Pleiades open star cluster is approximately 115 million years.

Location and surveillance

The Pleiades is an open star cluster known to many cultures. It is not difficult to guess that since many peoples of the world have heard about these stars, then, most likely, the Pleiades are very easy to observe. Indeed, the Pleiades can be observed in the Northern Hemisphere of the sky at the end of winter and at the beginning of spring. They are especially well seen in the latitudes of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The ancient tribes of the Slavs inhabiting these territories called this asterism - "Stozhary", and associated it with the god of fertility Veles. This is presumably due to the fact that the Pleiades appear in the above latitudes at the beginning of spring, during the period of sowing crops.

The open star cluster Pleiades is located in the constellation. If you observe the Pleiades with the naked eye, you can see seven bright stars. As a rule, these are Alcyone, Atlas, Electra, Maya, Merope, Taygeta and Pleion. We have specially arranged the stars here according to the decrease in their brightness - from the brightest to the dimmer stars. The magnitude of the brightest star in this Alcyone asterism is 2.865 magnitudes. The magnitude of the last of the Playon stars presented here is 5.09. By the way, Playona is also a variable star.

Each of the above stars got its name in honor of one of the seven daughters of Atlas, whose story came to us from Greek mythology. According to legend, in order to protect the daughters of Atlanta - the Pleiades, from the revenge of Orion, who wanted to destroy them because they fought on the side of the Titans, during the war of the latter with the gods, Zeus turned them into doves and sent them to heaven, where they are now , in the form of a constellation, which we are talking about in this article. Mythological pleiades are repeatedly found in the works of Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Structure and composition

However, this is only at first glance the Pleiades open star cluster consists of seven stars. In fact, if you use field binoculars to observe this asterism, you can already find 20-40 stars there. But if you use a good amateur or semi-professional telescope to observe them, this figure will instantly increase several times.

The Pleiades star cluster occupies a fairly large area in the sky. It is 12 light years in diameter. Moreover, over 1000 stars are simultaneously located in this territory, the total mass of which is equal to 800 masses of our Sun.

According to some estimates, the system of the Pleiades has over three thousand gravitationally bound stars. Moreover, a significant part of these objects are small celestial bodies. They are usually white or brown dwarfs, whose mass and composition are insufficient to emit a large amount of light that could be observed from Earth with the naked eye. Such objects can be observed only with the help of special optical and radar equipment. There is data confirming that in the Pleiades binary systems of browns are quite common and are extremely rare astronomical objects.

Discovery history

The Pleiades is an open star cluster known to mankind since time immemorial. Rock paintings of this amazingly beautiful asterism are found by archaeologists in almost all corners of the world. As you understand, these drawings were made long before the beginning of our era.

Since the Pleiades can be observed in the Northern Hemisphere in winter and in the Southern Hemisphere in summer, it is not surprising that they are visible on all continents of the world except Antarctica. Since no technique is needed to see the brightest objects of the Pleiades, but only good eyesight and attentiveness are enough, references to these stars are found in ancient Greek myths, Chinese treatises, and even the Bible. From this we can conclude that this constellation has been known to mankind since time immemorial.

However, the first serious observations of the star cluster were made only in the 18th century. With the help of the then optical technology, attempts were made to calculate the total number of stars included in a given asterism. But, for example, a scientist and part-time priest in 1767 tried to calculate the probability of the accidental formation of such a huge number of stars in such a relatively small area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe sky. According to his data, it was equal to 1:500000, from which the pastor concluded that the Pleiades are gravitationally bound stars. In general, he was right.

1. The Pleiades are about 135 parsecs from Earth.
2. Under certain circumstances, a reflection nebula can be seen around the Pleiades - this is a cloud of cosmic dust illuminated by stars.
3. In shape, the Pleiades resemble Ursa Minor.
4. The first rock carving of the Pleiades dates back to 16500 BC.
5. About a quarter of the total number of stars that inhabit the Pleiades astronomical cluster are brown dwarfs.

Pleiades star cluster

Pleiades (Greek Pleiades"Daughters of Pleione") - a star cluster in the constellation Taurus, in which seven stars are visible to the naked eye, the position is about 0 ° Gemini.

The Pleiades are a small cluster of stars occupying less than one degree in the sky, about the width of one finger. However, it claims more poetic and scientific works, records and myths than any other constellation. The themes expressed by the Pleiades range from the "Narrow Misty Procession of Women Stars" as described by Manilius, to the children of Atlas, the seven pigeons bringing ambrosia to the infant Zeus, the seven daughters of Pleione, or even the hen and chickens. The Pleiades were also a pivotal calendar point, their heliacal rising and setting being the official start and late end of the season. In Babylon, their heliacal rising heralded the beginning of a new year. This group of stars seems to have also been associated by the Celts with the Parkas, as an old oral custom forbade women to sew when the Pleiades were heliacal or acronic (the first star to rise in the east after sunset) rising stars - in which case they could break their thread and accidentally cut the thread of human life.

The Celts also used the acronic rising of the Pleiades to mark the month of mourning for dead friends. Prayers for the dead were made on the first day of the month we now know as November. We still see an echo of this custom in the celebration of Halloween (October 31) and All Saints' Day (November 1), it also finds its reflection in Memorial Day (November 11), the day of war veterans in the United States.

In pre-Vedic India, the Pleiades were the seven mothers who judged people and sometimes wounded them with crescent-shaped blades. Among the Egyptians, they were seven goddesses who met and judged the dead. Among the Greeks, the Pleiades were part of the ancient cult of Aphrodite, who gave birth to seven daughters and turned them into a flock of doves, which became the seven stars of the Pleiades. This flock was led by the dove goddess Alcyone, who was believed to bring good weather for the planting season. The seven visible stars of the Pleiades were also seen as a smaller version of the great bear goddess, Ursa Major, with her seven stars. (Brady.B)

Legend: The Pleiades or Atlantis are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, of which six were visible and one was invisible or "lost". They accompanied the young Artemis, and one fine day the gods transferred them to heaven in order to hide them from the persistent Orion. According to other versions, the reason was their sadness because of their father, who had to support heaven with his head and hands. The names of the sisters and the numbers of the corresponding stars in the catalog are as follows: Alcyone (eta), Maya (20), Electra (17), Merope (23), Taygeta (19), Celeno (16) and Steropa (21, 22). The group also includes their parents: Atlas (27) and Playona (28).

"Lost" is Merope. Having married the mortal Sisyphus, she hid her face, for she became the only Pleiades who did not unite her fate with God. There is another opinion: Electra is “lost” - she was so saddened by the death of Troy, founded by her son Dardanus, that she went out. Theon the Younger claims that we are talking about Keleno, who was struck by lightning. It is also said about the Pleiades in the Old Testament: “Can you tie the knot of the Pleiades and resolve the knot of Orion?” (Job 38/31).

Reference: The Pleiades are a star cluster with a main star. It is located on the shoulders of Gemini; in practice, you can take the longitude of Alcyone for the longitude of the entire group, since the cluster fits in one degree of the arc.

Influence: According to Ptolemy, the Pleiades have the nature of the Moon and Mars; Al-Vidas characterizes them by the opposition of Mars and the Moon with the Sun. It is believed that under the influence of the Pleiades, unbridled, ambitious people are born; rebels; peaceful optimists. They are waiting for wanderings, more often by sea, success in agriculture and intellectual work. Blindness, shame and violent death are possible. The influence of the Pleiades as a whole is emphatically harmful.

If ascending: blindness, inflammation of the eyes, other damage to the eyes or face, wounds from bladed weapons, exile, arrest, illness, dangerous fevers, quarrels, exorbitant greed, success on the battlefield. If the Sun is in opposition to Mars or the ascendant - violent death.

At the climax: shame, ruin, violent death. If they culminate at the same time as the Sun or Moon: the person becomes a military commander, commander of a cavalry or a king.

Compound:

With Sun: sore throats, chronic colds, blindness, or at least poor eyesight - illnesses in general, loss of good name, bad temper, murderer or victim of murderer, arrest; death from a blow - it is possible that with a cold weapon - or from an infection, a bullet, in a shipwreck, and perhaps they will cut off their heads.

With Moon: facial injuries, other injuries, illnesses, blindness or some kind of visual impairment, especially if in the corner of the horoscope; color blindness, strabismus, growths in the eye area; misfortune, shame, arrest. Complete blindness occurs if the conjunction is in the seventh house, and even more so if the Sun and Mars are in conjunction with, and the Moon is in the last quarter.

With Mercury: many disappointments, loss of property, many losses in one way or another connected with legal affairs; unsuccessful business; trouble with children.

With Venus: depravity, violent passions, loss of a good name because of women, illness; unhappy life.

With Mars: the head suffers greatly, sorrows and losses due to the fire. If Saturn is in conjunction with Regulus - a violent death during the ongoing rebellion.

With Jupiter: deceit, duplicity; disagreement with the church and the law; losses due to a relative; exile or arrest.

With Saturn: foresight, many ailments: tumors, and possibly a hereditary chronic disease; a lot of losses.

With Uranus: productive mind, congenital or acquired deformity in childhood; many sorrows, troubles, unexpected losses - often due to fire or intrigues of enemies; the marriage partner turns out to be unsuitable in one way or another - especially if a female horoscope is considered; troubles associated with women; occupations in the occult; unfavorable for children: troubles - if they are born at all; heavy loss towards the end of life, violent death.

With Neptune: fearlessness, military successes, honor, wealth, help from friends, many troubles, frequent travels; sometimes an unpopular occupation shrouded in mystery; marriage partner is in poor health; strange facts about relationships with parents; bad for children; at the end of life a person can lose everything; violent death, often away from home.

The magical influence of the talisman:

Image: young girl or lamp. Strengthens eyesight, brings peace of mind, raises the winds, brings secrets to light, helps to find hidden things. (A.Aich)

Character type Moon-Mars; in astrology were considered harbingers of all sorts of troubles. This very remarkable celestial object (along with Sirius, Ursa Major and Orion) is one of the first people to highlight in the sky. In ancient Babylon, this cluster was called "Stars" and was revered as the seven great heavenly gods. It got its modern name in Ancient Greece. In Greek mythology (the Pleiades are the seven daughters of Pleione (Plione) and Atlanta (Atlas) - Alcyone, Celeno, Electra, Taygeta, Maya, Sterope and Merope. A slightly different pronunciation of some names has been fixed in astronomy: Alcyone instead of Alcyone, Celene (or Celeno ) instead of Celeno, Asterope instead of Steropes, and sometimes Miropes instead of Merop. According to one version of the myth, Orion pursued the Pleiades until they turned into doves (Greek Peleia "dove"), and Zeus took them to heaven and turned them into a constellation. However and there they are pursued by Orion, because in the daily rotation of the sky, Orion follows the Pleiades.According to another version of this myth, the Pleiades died of grief after the death of their brother Hyas and sisters Hyades.In pre-Islamic Arabic astronomy, this cluster was called as-suraiya(the meaning of this name by the 10th century was not clear to the Arabs themselves) and served as the basis of a large constellation, which was the torso of a man with an outstretched arm, which was formed by the stars of the Perseus Segment and the constellation Cassiopeia (associated with the hand). In astrological use is the star Alcyone, which belongs to this cluster. (A.Yu.Saplin)