Pleiades As the Goddess Selu/Selene
Pleiades As It Appears In the Night Sky
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.
from Wikimedia Commons at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg
Nebra Sky Disk With Pleiades Upper Right 1700 BCE
(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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Back Side of Corner Temple Token From Palmyra, Syria Has Pleiades - 50 BCE
(February 23, 2024) These early texts are mostly Etruscan in style with a bit of Punic which are both anti-Roman trading civilizations. The image within the disk seem to be the constellation Pleides with its 7 stars. Surrounding it are 4 other stars making up the core of the Druid constellation representing Selu/Selene. The disk itself may thus represent the full moon as Selene is the source of motion via the spark of life and celestial light.
The text is supporting the life power class against the motion power class by claiming the life network editing power represented by the goddess Ayu is being controlled by emotion/motion powers either from both human emotions and the astrological night sky.
Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 68.2)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold) - AMu Gu UZu (Lev 68.2.1)
- UGu Bu Ṣu (Lev 68.2.2)
(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
In English
- The Reed-Boat (Ayu) is being energized by frustration
- The powers-of-death are being nourished by activity (motion powers)
Zincirli Stone Amulet Found In Modern Day Syria Has Pleiades - 700 BCE
Zincirli Stone Amulet Found In Phoenicia: Front Side
Main image is of a trapped howling Basenji dog. It could represent the feelings of people who are trapped by drought or represent the dog star Sirius which guided the drought causing sun. Below this howling dog is a smaller dog of a different breed laying down. This amulet is now at the Vorderasiatisches (Pergamon) Museum in Berlin. Identification number: S 03604. It is 9.2 x 5 cm in size and 1.4 cm thick.
The amulet was excavated during the fourth season of the German expedition to Zincirli Höyük under the direction of Felix von Luschan (March 20–June 28, 1894). It was first published by Walter Andrae (1943: 146–47, pl. 9c) in the fifth volume of final excavation report.
Photo in DeGrado, and Madadh. (2017). Letter assignments by Olmsted. Image online at: https://id.smb.museum/object/2075086/amulett-gegen-die-d%C3%A4monin-lamaschtu
Back Side: Nourishments for Life-Powers Are Being Blocked by Astrological Powers
(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)
(Read right to left. Capital letters on seal. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verb is italic bold)- (Israelite) BaRu LiPu Bu Ḫu EŠu (Lev 36.1)
- (Etruscan) Bu GaPpu ITu IRu Ya (Lev 36.2)
(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
In English
- The seer's fat is being nourished by Hu's confusion.
- Nourishments for the winged-ones (Hu and Ayu) do not astrologically-empower the omens
References
DeGrado, Jessie and Richey, Madadh. (2017) An Aramaic-Inscribed Lamashtu Amulet from Zincirli. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 377: 107-33. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/31676727/DeGrado_Jessie_and_Richey_Madadh._2017._An_Aramaic-Inscribed_Lamashtu_Amulet_from_Zincirli._Bulletin_of_the_American_Schools_of_Oriental_Research_377_107-33?email_work_card=view-paperAn archaeological website for a more recent excavation is hosted by the university of Chicago but all their translations of other texts are wrong because they they were done without following any standards. https://zincirli.uchicago.edu/site-and-setting/
Cygnus: https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/cygnus-constellation/
Pleiades: https://www.constellation-guide.com/pleiades-the-seven-sisters-messier-45/
Southern Cross: https://www.constellation-guide.com/the-southern-cross/