Her research took her to North and South America.
She anticipated similarities with her own Wirangu people’s creation
story. In this, the ‘Orion the hunter’ constellation (the hunter ‘Tgilby’ in their language) falls in love with and chases the Seven Sisters (‘Yugarilya’).
And so it proved. “Her research found Indigenous people from across the globe shared creation links to the Seven Sisters constellation.”
Q: But why should cultures as geographically diverse as these and others (e.g., ancient Greece, Ukraine) similarly regard the stars in the Pleiades as seven women?
She anticipated similarities with her own Wirangu people’s creation
And so it proved. “Her research found Indigenous people from across the globe shared creation links to the Seven Sisters constellation.”
Q: But why should cultures as geographically diverse as these and others (e.g., ancient Greece, Ukraine) similarly regard the stars in the Pleiades as seven women?
Q: And most often sisters?
Q: And chased by a hunter?
The oldest known Greek mythologist Hesiod (8th century BC) had a line “Pleiades flee mighty Orion”. The book of Job, probably the oldest completed book of the Bible, records God asking Job, “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?” (Job 38:31).
It would be very difficult to explain from an evolutionary/long-age perspective! Nothing about the stars’ appearance suggests sisters—or even women. Also, why would the same star pattern suggest a hunter to both the ancient Greeks and to the Wirangu people? So, it would be a remarkable coincidence if the stars-to-sisters connection had occurred more than once by chance—let alone in cultures across the globe!
Rather, this points to the truth of the Bible’s account of the dispersal from Babel, just a few thousand years ago."
It would be very difficult to explain from an evolutionary/long-age perspective! Nothing about the stars’ appearance suggests sisters—or even women. Also, why would the same star pattern suggest a hunter to both the ancient Greeks and to the Wirangu people? So, it would be a remarkable coincidence if the stars-to-sisters connection had occurred more than once by chance—let alone in cultures across the globe!
Rather, this points to the truth of the Bible’s account of the dispersal from Babel, just a few thousand years ago."
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