Pleiades As the Goddess Selu/Selene

The Druid Pleiades seems to have been the center of its own person-like Druid constellation. This is unlike today where it has been downgraded to an appendage of the Greek (Indo-European) constellation of Taurus. The four stars making the square are shown on the Nebra Sky Disk and on the Temple Token from Palmyra. Today the top 2 stars are called Algol and Epsilon Persei. The bottom 2 are Aldebaran and Lamda Tauri. Thus, the Druid constellation manages to include two major stars of Algol and Aldebaran. 

The Nebra disk also shows a "head" star over the top stars suggesting the Druid constellation is a person or deity. This would be the star Mirfak at the center of the constellation Perseus. Of all the Druid deities the most astronomical is the motion source goddess Selene who represents both the spark of life and celestial light. Thus, thus the Druid Pleiades constellation is the goddess Selu/Selene.

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(February 23, 2024) The Nebra sky disc is a bronze disc of around 30 cm (12 in) diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg (4.9 lb), having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. buried on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in Germany. It is dated by archaeologists to c. 1800–1600 BCE and attributed to the Early Bronze Age Unetice culture.

This shows Pleiades as the center of a human-shaped constellation with a head, shoulders, feed, and two arms off to the side.

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(May 6, 2023) This stone amulet has two texts of differing letter styles, Text 2 is early Etruscan while text 1 is early Israelite (Gezer). The Israelite text is derogatory complaining that the diviners (seers) are getting rich over some drought. The Etruscan text justifies this expense by stating that any offerings for the connective life powers, god Hu and goddess Ayu, are a waste because they do not affect fate. In general Israelites favored life powers while Phoenicians favored magical motion powers. The Etruscans favored both as long as both powers kept to their proper domains.

The lower image consists of people bringing offerings to some motion power temple, probably to the temple of the full moon god Su who is the motion power source. The upper image shows the constellations most involved in defining fate involving the editing of the life network done by  crescent moon goddess Ayu. Going around clockwise these are: Pleiades, Southern Cross, an unknown constellation looking like an ax head, Cygus the swan, and another 1 or 2 unknown constellations.

In ancient times the Southern Cross (Crux) was part of the Greek constellation Centaurus. It was visible to the ancient Greeks, but the Earth’s axial precession gradually took the stars of Crux to the far southern sky, making them invisible from most locations in the northern hemisphere. By the year 400 CE, the Southern Cross had fallen below the horizon for most of Europe. It was rediscovered by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries.

 The Pleiades dips below the horizon at Mediterranean latitudes at the start of the stormy season in Late October/November so they became associated with rain and wind. In Greek mythology they were associated with the goddess Artemis (Ayu). 

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 36)

1. (Israelite) BaRu  LiPu  Bu  Ḫu  EŠu (Lev 36.1)
2. (Etruscan) Bu  GaPpu  ITu  IRu  Ya (Lev 36.2)

In English

1. The seer's fat is being nourished by Hu's confusion.
2. Nourishments for the winged-ones (Hu and Ayu) do not astrologically-empower the omens

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