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In the story, the Pleiades are orphans ("Lost Boys") that were not cared for by the people, so they became stars. Sun Man is angered by the mistreatment of the children and punishes the people with a drought, causing the buffalo to disappear, until the dogs, the only friends of the orphans, intercede on behalf of the people.
The poet Sappho mentions the Pleiades in one of her poems: The moon has gone The Pleiades gone In dead of night Time passes on I lie alone. The poet Lord Tennyson mentions the Pleiades in his poem "Locksley Hall": Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
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Aring Sinukûan (Kapampangan mythology): sun god of war and death, taught the early inhabitants the industry of metallurgy, wood cutting, rice culture and even waging war [22] Lakandánup (Kapampangan mythology): serpent goddess who comes during total eclipses; followed by famine; eats a person's shadow, which will result in withering and death ...
De astronomia is a Latin astronomical guide, attributed to Hyginus (died AD 17), containing the most complete surviving ancient compendium of astral mythology. [26] It gives the following account of why only six of the seven Pleiades can be seen: The Pleiades are said to be seven in number, but no one can see more than six of them.
When our sun dies about 5 billion years from now it might look something like this glowing celestial display which was captured from 4,600 light-years away. Hubble image of a star exploding may ...
Chal-chal: the Bontok god of the Sun whose son's head was cut off by Kabigat; [8] aided the god Lumawig in finding a spouse [9] Mapatar: the Ifugao sun deity of the sky in charge of daylight [ 10 ] Sun God: the Ibaloi deity who pushed up the skyworld and pushed down the underworld, creating earth, after he was hit by a man's arrow during the ...
The pillars shown in the image are 5 light-years tall, which means that the distance from one end to the other is roughly 300,000 times as far away as Earth is from the sun.