5. Allen: "Merope often is considered the Lost Pleiad, because, having married a mortal, the crafty Sisyphus, she hid her face in shame when she thought of her sisters' alliances with the gods, and realized that she had thrown herself away. She seems, however, to have recovered her equanimity, being now much brighter than some of the others. The name itself signifies 'Mortal' ..." The 'Mortal' star is below the line which can be drawn between Electra and Alcyone, both at 23º 57' N. At a solstice this line is horizontal. From Merope to Alcyone the slope goes 'uphill', which fact may explain why Sisyphos was condemned eternally to try to push his 'stone' (wife) up into the light, up to the 'surface'. As to Electra she is next in line to rise after Celaeno which means she is doomed to also disappear in the west before the following sisters. Ovid said that 'she merely covered her eyes with her hand', but presumably this statement alludes to the 'hand' in the west, cfr at Hiro: ... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.
Allen has more to say: "Electra, although for at least two or three centuries the title of a clearly visible star, has been regarded as the Lost Pleiad, from the legend that she withdrew her light in sorrow of witnessing the destruction of Ilium, which was founded by her son Dardanos ... or, as Hyginus wrote, left her place to be present at its fall, thence wandering to Mizar as Άλώπηξ, the Fox, the Arabs' Al Suhā, and our Alcor [80 Ursae Majoris]. Ovid called her Atlantis, personifying the family. The Pirt-Kopan-noot tribe of Australia have a legend of a Lost Pleiad, making this the queen of the other six, beloved by their heavenly Crow, our Canopus, and who, carried away by him, never returned to her home." The Fox star is certainly of mythic importance: "... Now Agastya, the great Rishi, had a 'sordid' origin similar to that of Erichtonios (Auriga), who was born of Gaia, 'the Earth', from the seed of Hephaistos, who had dropped it while he was looking at Athena ¹. ¹ Besides Greece and India, the motif of the dropped seed occurs in Caucasian myths, particularly those which deal with the hero Soszryko. The 'Earth' is replaced by a stone, Hephaistos by a shepherd, and Athena by the 'beautiful Satana', who watches carefully the pregnant stone and who, when the time comes, calls in the blacksmith who serves as midwife to the 'stone-born' hero whose body is blue shining steel from head to foot, except the knees (or the hips) which are damaged by the pliers of the smith. The same Soszryko seduces a hostile giant to measure the depth of the sea in the same manner as Michael or Elias causes the devil to dive, making the sea freeze in the meantime. In the case of the Rishi: He originated from the seed of Mitra and Varuna, which they dropped into a water-jar on seeing the heavenly Urvashi. From this double parentage he is called Maitrāvaruni, and from his being born from a jar he got the name Khumbasambhaya¹ (Khumba is the name of Aquarius in India and Indonesia, allegedly late Greek influence.) ¹ ... let us mention that the Egyptian Canopus is himself a jar-god; actually, he is represented by a Greek hydria ... On the very same time and occasion there also was 'born' as son of Mitra and Varuna - only the seed fell on the ground not in the jar - the Rishi Vasishta. This is unmistakably zeta Ursae Majoris, and the lining up of Canopus with zeta, more often with Alcor, the tiny star near zeta (Tom Thumb, in Babylonia the 'fox'-star) has remained a rather constant feature, in Arabic Suhayl and as-Sura. This is the 'birth' of the valid representatives of both the poles, the sons of Mitra and Varuna and also of their successors ..." (Hamlet's Mill) There are people who connect the submerged rich land Atlantis with the deluge caused by salt water rushing in from the Mediterranean down into the sweet water lake now named the Black Sea: "... German researchers Siegfried and Christian Schoppe locate Atlantis in the Black Sea. Before 5500 BC, a great plain lay in the northwest at a former freshwater-lake. In 5510 BC, rising sea level topped the barrier at today's Bosporus. They identify the Pillars of Hercules with the Strait of Bosporus ... The geocatastrophic event led to the neolithic diaspora in Europe, also beginning 5500 BC. In 2000, the Guardian reported that Robert Ballard, in a small submarine, found remains of human habitation around 300 feet underwater in the Black Sea off the north coast of Turkey. The area flooded around 5000 BC ..." (Wikipedia) |
