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Orion - Pleiades - Ursa Major (African-Australian myths)

The most prominent stellar inhabitants of the Milky Way Galaxy are 4 constellations known to everyone since childhood. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor - having the shape of a bucket,
They are very similar, as if one is a mirror image of the second, as well as Orion and the Pleiades, entangled in the eternal Istria "Karpman drama triangle" is a triangle of relationships and roles - the victim, the rescuer and the persecutor. Orion and the Pleiades (an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus) are located on it not far from each other and are visible both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, although not all year round. In May-June, the sun is in the constellation of Taurus and its light does not allow look at nearby stars. The heliactic sunset (or sunrise) of the Pleiades, (the time when the Pleiades cease to be visible in the night sky or, on the contrary, appear after an absence of almost two months), served as a marker for the beginning of the new year in various traditions of the world. There is no other equally convenient starting point. In the same constellation of Taurus is the bright Aldebaran, and next to it is another star cluster - the Hyades. All these objects (Orion, Aldebaran with the Hyades and the Pleiades) are revealed in the mythologies of different countries and civilizations, and carry the same story, about the pursuer and the victim, only the options in different mythological traditions are different. Since both in the triangle described above and in the myth, heroes sometimes change roles, and the Pleiades become the pursuer, and they are no longer 7 sisters, but 7 brothers, 7 wise men or 7 warriors ...
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