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Many of his paintings, like 'Christ among the Doctors' and the 'Virgin and Child with Saint John' derive from Leonardo compositions. Luini also adopted Leonardo's use of chiaroscuro, and his facial types. (nationalgallery.org.uk)

Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? (Job 38:31-32)

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on. (Shakespeare)

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky. (Job 9:9)

The Lord looks down in love, bending over heaven's balcony. (Psalms 53:2)

This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,
Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed
Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
Figured quite o’er with burning meteors. (Shakespeare, King John)

The Pleiades whose stars are these :--‘Lovely Teygeta, and dark-faced Elektra (Electra), and Alkyone (Alcyone), and bright Asterope, and Kelaino (Celaeno), and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot . . . In the mountains of Kyllene (Cyllene) she [Maia] bare Hermes, the herald of the gods. (Hesiod)

It was the hour when the Pleiades appeared in the firmament like the folds of a silken sash variously decked with gems. (Muallakat)

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)

May marked the opening of navigation to the Greeks because sailing was safe after they had risen; the setting in the late autumn marked the close of navigation. (constellationsofwords.com)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name. (Amos 5:8)

Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka. (wisdomlib.org)

The pictograms of 'six' (six short strokes divided to two lines) and (on its left side) 'fish' together form a syntactic unit. It corresponds to the compound aru-meen 'six-star' occurring in Old Tamil texts and denoting the asterism of the Pleiades. (harappa.com)

I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. (Psalm 121:1-2)

Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. (Wikipedia)

Until the season of the Pleiades, and at the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in. (Hippocrates, Epidemics)

A common figure for these stars, everywhere popular for many centuries, is that of a Hen with her Chickens, — another instance of the constant association of the Pleiades with flocking birds, and here especially appropriate from their compact grouping. (constellationsofwords.com)

Of these, Maia surpassed (they say) the beauty of her sisters and lay with supreme Jove [Zeus]. (Ovid)

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. (Shakespeare)

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Shakespeare)

The rapidly maturing infant Hermes crawled away to Thessaly, where, by nightfall of his first day, he stole some of his half-brother Apollo's cattle and invented the lyre from a tortoise shell. (Wikipedia)

During the Halcyon days – when the world was filled with joy, prosperity and tranquillity – she watched over the Mediterranean Sea, making it calm and safe for sailors. (lucindariley.co.uk)

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (John 9:5)

We have some salt of our youth in us. (Shakespeare)

The son of a morning star, Ceyx, the King of Thessaly, and Alcyone were married and devoted to each other, until the day they deceived Zeus and Hera by pretending to be them. (lucindariley.co.uk)

Summer's lease hath all too short a date. (Shakespeare)

In psychology, the Electra complex is named after the Greek Goddess Electra. The Electra Complex says that a young girl decides to compete with her mother for the love of her father. The term “Electra Complex” dates back to stories with the Greek mythological character Electra, who teamed up with her brother Orestes to kill her mother and stepfather as an act of revenge for the death of her real father. (greekgodsandgoddesses.net)

Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky. (Shakespeare, Henry IV)

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. (Shakespeare, Henry IV)

Some such strange bull leapt your father’s cow,
And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat. (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing)

Pindar, who was a very knowledgeable mythographer, hints that the mythic doe, even when slain and offered to Artemis, also continues to exist, to be hunted once again (although not killed) by Heracles at a later time. (Wikipedia)

Himeras is a river of Sicily. Two ancient rivers named Himeras cause some confusion, as one (modern Fiume Grande) flowed south to north emptying into the Tyrrhenian Sea while the other flowed north to south, emptying into the Gulf of Gela. (pleiades.stoa.org)

In black ink my love may still shine bright. (Shakespeare)

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season’s quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Or say with princes if it shall go well. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 14)

She wears her hair long in grief, and is called a comet, or longodes because she trails out for a long distance, or xiphias because she shows the shape of a sword-point. (Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae)

A mighty man of Pisa: by report I know him well: you are very welcome, sir. (Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew)

To be exalted with the threatening clouds: But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)

Six only are visible, but the seventh is beneath the dark clouds. (Ovid)

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

He who has ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew 11:15)

The constellation itself depicts Christ wrestling and getting control of the serpent. Ophiuchus has his foot on Scorpio, this represents Christ walking on water (Scorpio being a water sign). Scorpio being the sign of death and rebirth and is the only sign with three symbols. (thesevenworlds.wordpress.com)

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5)

By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. (Job 26:13)

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world. (Shakespeare)

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

This is what the LORD says: "Stand where the roads cross and look. Ask where the old way is, where the good way is, and walk on it. If you do, you will find rest for yourselves." (Jeremiah 6:16-20)

Ophiuchus and Orion represent part of our ‘cycle of life’ that we all incarnate into as going from “earthly beings” through the ‘gate of man’ – “eternal beings” through the ‘gate of Gods’. (thesevenworlds.wordpress.com)

When the Serpent Feeds the Eagle, then Quatzlcoatl-The Many plumed One-returns. (Mayan)

The heavens themselves,
the planets, and this center
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office, and custom, in all line of order. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)

Two portions of her course had kindly night well-nigh passed, and the seven stars had turned their shining car. (Seneca, Troade)

The gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced, Shedding sweet influence. (Milton)

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. (Shakespeare)

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. (Shakespeare)

The group of sister stars, which mothers love
To show their wondering babes,
the gentle Seven. (Bryant’s The Constellations)

The sign recurs, sometimes alone, on Indus stone bangles; Indus tree-gods wear bangles; in later folk religion, bangles are offered to sacred trees with prayers for off spring (cf. muruku ' boy'). (harappa.com)

In many Australian Aboriginal cultures, the Pleiades are a group of young girls, and are often associated with sacred women’s ceremonies and stories. The Pleiades are also important as an element of Aboriginal calendars and astronomy, and for several groups their first rising at dawn marks the start of winter. (theconversation.com)

Tales of the Seven Sisters have been passed on by word of mouth, and through poetry, art, music and architecture, by Greeks, Aborigines, Chinese, Native Americans, Egyptians, Persians, Indians and Polynesians, to name but a few. (lucindariley.co.uk)

The ground was as if strewn with pieces of enamel, and rows of Pleiades seemed to hang on the branches of the trees. (Sadi’s Gulistan)

The Great Spirit heard the girls’ cries and made the rock grow upwards, with almost vertical sides, taking the girls with it, and leaving the bears unable to reach them. The bears however continued to claw away at the rock, leaving deep scratch marks and making it grow even taller, pushing the seven little girls into the stars. (lucindariley.co.uk)

In many different cultures, the Pleiades are associated with young girls being pursued by a young man or men, represented by Orion. (space.com)

The fault...is not in our stars, but in ourselves. (Shakespeare)

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone. (Shakespeare)

Pleiades 1 is the 25th largest tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and the 9th largest tree in Atlas Grove. (famousredwoods.com )

The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun. (Shakespeare)

When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun. (Shakespeare, Richard II)

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. (Shakespeare)

”You will become the 13th and you will be cursed by the other generations-and you will come to rule over them. In the last days, they will curse your ascent to the holy generation.” I say to you, my name has been written on this […] of the generations of the stars through the human generations. (Gospel of Judas)

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. (Shakespeare)

In the 5th century before Christ Euripides mentioned them with Aetos, our Altair, as nocturnal timekeepers; and Sappho, a century previously, marked the middle of the night by their setting. (constellationsofwords.com)

Either of the two points in the sky where the ecliptic (the Sun’s annual pathway) and the celestial equator intersect. (brittanica.com)

Jesus said: If they say to you: Whence have you come?, say to them: We have come from the light, the place where the light came into being of itself. It [established itself], and it revealed itself in their image. If they say to you: Who are you?, say: We are his sons, and we are the elect of the living Father. If they ask you: What is the sign of your Father in you?, say to them: It is movement and rest. (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 50)

These stars were known since old times, by several cultures all around the world, including the Maori and Australian Aborigines, Chinese, Maya and Aztec and the Native people of North America. (arxiv.org)

In the Magdalenian time (16,000-12,000 BP) man also recognized single and very complex star patterns, including the Milky Way: the Northern Crown in the cave of El Castillo (Spain), the Pleiades in the cave of Lascaux (France) and the main constellations of the sky at the same location. (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)

The cluster is slowly moving in the direction of the feet of what is currently the constellation of Orion. Like most open clusters, the Pleiades will not stay gravitationally bound forever. (Wikipedia)

In addition to the changes in the calendars based on the lunar stations among the Indians and the Arabs, consider the case of an ancient Yemeni calendar in which the months are designated according to an astronomical criterion that caused it to be named Calendar of the Pleiades: the month of ḫams. (Wikipedia)

And sow fields and plant vineyards, And gather a fruitful harvest. (Psalm 107:37)

When the Pleiades Atlagenes (Born of Atlas) are rising [early May], begin your harvest, and your ploughing when they are going to set [November]. Forty nights and days they are hidden and appear again as the year moves round, when first you sharpen your sickle. (Hesiod, Works and Days 383)

These ancient people may have observed the midnight culmination of Pleiades, or when Pleiades reached its highest point in the sky, at midnight on the day of this festival, which would have been celebrated around the time of Halloween. They believed that this signified the time of the thinnest separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead. (space.com)

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. (Isaiah 34:14)

18 yrs of Christs life is missing in the Bible. From the age of 12 to the age of 30 is missing. The Sun actually “leaves the zodiac” for 18 days while it is transiting (crossing) the astrological sign of Scorpio (the third water sign). During this 18 day period the Sun is outside of the boundaries of the traditional zodiac and enters the constellation of Ophiuchus. (thesevenworlds.wordpress.com)

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. (Genesis 2:19)

Cluster like golden bees upon thy mane. (Bayard Taylor, Hymn to Taurus)

Egyptian Hathor was worshipped in the form of "Seven Hathors”: these seven goddesses are the Pleiades shining in the sky, usually represented by seven cows, often associated with a bull, as a heaven herd providing the nourishment, bread and beer, in the Underworld. (arxiv.org)

Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. (Shakespeare)

If the woman had not separated from the man, she would not have died along with the man. His separation became the beginning from death. For this reason Christ came so he might rectify the division that came about from the beginning and again join the two, and so that those who have died in the division he might give life and join them. (Gospel of Philip, translated by Geoffrey S. Smith)

In Taoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole. (Wikipedia)

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night. (Shakespeare, The Tempest)

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night. (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)

Thirty-three cosmic ruler, fix thy house, crescent horn moon, follow seven lamps, seven stars, Pleiades stars. Hear O King, Light lamps in a row, thou wilt firmly fix thy house. “I am the worst demon of all, and our STARS are in heaven. Seven stars humble in sheen, and all together. And we are called as it were goddesses. (The Testament of Solomon)

Christ held seven stars in his hand. (Revelations 1:16)

When the car company Subaru chose the name for their business, they decided to depict only six stars in the company logo, supposedly because only six of the stars are visible to the naked eye. (lucindariley.co.uk)

I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)

I see thy glory like a shooting star
Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest. (Shakespeare, Richard II)

Recent telescope observations have revealed that this most famous of open clusters is comprised of some four hundred stars wreathed in complex nebulæ of dust and gas. (pleiade.org)

Let your eyes and imagination drift a bit to see the entire winding shape of Draco the Dragon in the northern sky. If you do spot it, be sure to pick out Thuban, a former pole star. (earthsky.org)

As the supreme initiate of Jesus, she holds the key to unlocking the greatest occult mystery of resurrection. Her powers of ascension can be traced through a sacred lineage that includes Enoch’s transfiguration and the Aton of Akhenaton. (gaia.com)

I would not wish any companion in the world but you. (Shakespeare)

Venus is the second planet from the sun and the brightest object in the sky besides the Sun and the Moon. It’s size, mass and density are like earth’s, as if they are twin planets. Venus is the heart chakra planet for the solar system. (Nancy Robbins)

Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. (Luke 7:44-46)

The serpent/kundalini feeds the Eagle (pineal), when the serpent spine “Juice” kundalini fire crosses the spark gap of the hypothalamus and meets the “winged bird” i.e pineal gland,one is reborn,which Ophiuchus represents (rebirth). (thesevenworlds.wordpress.com)

So many of these most important monuments, cities, artefacts, and sacred vortex sites of Mesopotamia regions such as in Syria, Iran, Iraq have been destroyed by wars with our western empire in recent years, leaving many questions open as to the motivations and truths behind these wars. (Ishtara Ammuna Rose)