Muhammad made mention of the Pleiades.Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades are the "star" mentioned in Sura An-Najm ("The Star") of the Quran. The name of the Pleiades comes from Ancient Greek: . The children, however, die in their sleep and are elevated to the sky as the Pleiades. Salman (may Allah be pleased with him), a Persian was sitting among us. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties", "The Distance to the Pleiades According to Gaia DR2", "Planets Forming In Pleiades Star Cluster, Astronomers Report". Years later, their mother gives birth to another son, named Busan. In Greek mythology the Pleiades were seven mountain-nymph daughters of the Titan Atlas. Another way of estimating the age of the cluster is by looking at the lowest-mass objects. In Korea, the Pleiades are known as , "myo seong", or , with the suffix, or meaning 'star'. 34-35. [7] Mention follows (or precedes) of nearby Orion, a bright, anthropomorphic constellation: Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; and Job 38:31. He is described as God's special servant, a protector, trickster, saint, and mystic, who has been identified with various ancient deities. In this paper I will analyse the different features of the Pleiades in the astronomical, astrological, and calendrical interpretation as well as their mythical and cultural background in ancient Mesopotamia. In tellings of the story in which there were only six chicks, the mother is included but often includes only the seven chicks. It's seen from as far north as the North Pole and farther. [46][47], The Hopi determined the passage of time for nighttime rituals in the winter by observing the Pleiades (Tstsqam)[48][49] and Orion's belt (Hotmqam) through a kiva entrance hatch as they passed overhead. [31] Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades (ath-thurayya) are the "star" mentioned in Surah An-Najm ("The Star") in the Quran.[32]. Orion was a humongous supernaturally strong hunter. The Pleiades The Seven Stars that Guide Our Spirit as Described in the Bible & Other Religions 31,148 views Nov 15, 2015 618 Dislike Share redskywalker1111 1K subscribers In this video, we. Only six of the boys made it to the sky; the seventh was caught by his mother and fell to the ground with such force that he sank into the ground. Calculations suggest that the cluster will take about 250 million years to disperse, with gravitational interactions with giant molecular clouds and the spiral arms of our galaxy also hastening its demise.[55]. [39], According to Anthony Aveni ancient Aztecs of Mexico and Central America based their calendar upon the Pleiades. In the West, the cluster is called Pleiades, and in China, Mao, and Japan it is called Subaru meaning "to govern" or "gather together." Subaru was the first automobile brand to use a Japanese word as its name. Ultimately astronomers' understanding of the age and future evolution of the universe is influenced by their knowledge of the distance to the Pleiades. Pleiadian starseeds often have a strong drive and devotion to their 'raison d'etre' or 'reason for being'. Hamilton, MT 59840-9512. The arrangement of the brightest stars is somewhat similar to Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.} (Bukhari).[14]. [51][52], The Kiowa of North America legend of the Seven Star Girls links the origin of the Pleiades to Devils Tower. [112], In Theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth (Sanat Kumara) and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to us.[113]. [71] For agricultural tribes in the northern hemisphere, the course of the Pleiades indicated the beginning and ending of the growing seasons. In Arabicthe Pleiades are known as al-Thurayya, and mentioned in Islamic literature. The Pleiades have long been known to be a physically related group of stars rather than any chance alignment. [74] Subaru Telescope, located in Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, is also named after the Pleiades.[75]. Author Kate Clark retold a Maori tale titled Matariki, or the Little Eyes. (2021). (Sahih al Muslim) Does the above hadeeth refers to Imam Bukhari (the author of Sahih al-Bukhari), who is also of Persian descent? At present, it has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, Early Islamic, and Early Medieval geography. Those authors note that the difference between these results can be attributed to random error. A group of deities known as Zappu also represent the Pleiades star cluster. 1a) was popularized in the islamic world by the egyptian magician [53][54], The cluster is slowly moving in the direction of the feet of what is currently the constellation of Orion. [29], 'Volosozhary' (the ones whose hair is glowing), or 'Baby-Zvizdy' (female-stars) refer to the female tribal deities. The "five pillars of Islam" are religious duties that provide a framework for a Muslim's life. ], impressed by and in remembrance of their love, immortalized the seven chickens as the stars of the Pleiades. Blodgett View Christian School. These duties are performed regularly and encompass duties to God, to personal spiritual growth, to care for the poor, self-discipline, and sacrifice. The system contains the following types of Intel Xeon processors: E5-2680v4 . ", Then he mentioned the narrations which the questioner stated in the question and other narrations, and then he gave examples of scholars from Persia during the era of the Taabiis (followers of the Companions) and those who came after them, as he said: The truthfulness of this is what was noticed from the Taabiis and those who came after them, from the people of Persia, the free men and the freed slaves alike, such as Al-Hasan, Ibn Seereen and Ikrimah,the freed slaveof Ibn Abbaas, and others who came after them who were eminent in faith, religion and Islamic knowledge, to the point that these prominent people became better than most Arabs. Stayt, Hugh Arthur, and International African Institute. The Pleiades cluster has around 800 solar masses or about 80.000% of the Sun's mass. [60] They traveled in a space ship that lead the way to Earth on a Spiders web beam of light through the portal known as the 7 sisters star system. [2], As noted by scholar Stith Thompson, the constellation was "nearly always imagined" as a group of seven sisters, and their myths explain why there are only six. Pleiades definition, seven daughters of Atlas and half sisters of the Hyades, placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion. Originally deployed in 2008, Pleiades has been expanded many times and is one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. It is also observed to house the reflection nebula NGC 1432, an HII Ionized region. The Ojibwe people of North America believe they came from Bagone-giizhig "Hole in the Sky". 'Stozhary' can be etymologically traced to "" (stozharnya) meaning a 'granary', 'storehouse for hay and crops', or can also be reduced to the root "-" ('sto-zhar'), meaning 'hundredfold glowing' or "a hundred embers". These women were the first to know fire-making and each carried live coals on the end of their digging sticks. Pleiades, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. the seven seals the seven seals, sometimes called the seals of solomon1 or greatest name of god (al-ism al- aam),2,3 are a series of arcane symbols that feature prominently in islamic mysticism, magic texts and talismans.4,5,6 the now canonical form of the seven glyphs (fig. These layers may have been formed by deceleration due to radiation pressure as the dust has moved towards the stars. [9], The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. In: Vathanaprida, Supaporn; Gill, William Wyatt; and Mller, Friedrich Max. The nebula is bluish-white, caused by a light scattering effect not unlike the one that colors Earth's sky blue. [24][25], The earliest-known depiction of the Pleiades is likely a Northern German Bronze Age artifact known as the Nebra sky disk, dated to approximately 1600 BC. In Job the Sept. has , the order of the Hebrew words having been altered, SEE ORION, while in Amos there is . They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. [31] Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades (ath-thurayya) are the "star" mentioned in Surah An-Najm ("The Star") in the Quran. A narration by Al-Bukhari and Muslim from Abu Hurayrah reads: I swear by the One in Whose hand my soul is, if faith were hanging at Pleiades, a man from Persia would attain it., Persia does not refer to the known country, but it refers to a non-Arab race, who are the Persians, as per the narration by Ad-Daylami: The best of the non-Arabs are the Persians., According to many scholars, the grandfather of Abu Haneefah was from Persia. [81][82][83], The Motif Index of Polynesian Narratives locates stories about the genesis of the Pleiades in New Zealand, Cooks and in Rotuma. Perun Publishers, 2005. [77] Another name for Pleiades in Java is Wuluh. Muhammad made mention of the Pleiades. Pleiades is a distributed-memory SGI/HPE ICE cluster connected with InfiniBand in a dual-plane hypercube technology. [33] The members of this asterism, considered to be "seven starry brothers", each receive an individual name: in one version, duos Mika and Mioka, Raka and Raoka, Orisav and Borisav, and the last Milisav; in another, Vole and Voleta, Rale and Raleta, Mile and Mileta and Proak; in a third, Mile and Mileta, Rade and Radeta, Bore and Boreta and Prigimaz. In Swahili, the cluster is called "kilimia" (from Proto-Bantu "*ki-dimida" in Bantu areas E, F, G, J, L and S), meaning 'The Ploughing Stars'. One night, their mother sent them to bed without supper and, in the next morning, without breakfast. It was from this acronychal rising that the Pleiades became associated with tears and mourning. Muhammad is noted to have counted 12 stars in the constellation as reported in Ibn Ishaq. The hen overheard the conversation and rushed back to the coop to say farewell to her children. The "Netted Stars" known as Remmirath in The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien are likely a reference to the Pleiades, given their appearance and proximity to a red star called Borgil (identified with Aldebaran) and the constellation Menelvagor of the Shining Belt (Orion). They decide to transform into stars by climbing a spiderweb. The first and only two constellations to be named in Old Iranian sources are Ursa Major and the Pleiades, in the Younger Avesta. I enquired from Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The old name of the starcluster in Hungarian is "Fiastyk", meaning 'a hen with chicks'. In Japan, the Pleiades are known as Subaru which means "coming together" or "cluster" in Japanese and have given their name to the car manufacturer whose logo incorporates six stars to represent the five companies that merged into one. Each year, Pleiades in partnership with Copper Nickel and Gulf Coast distributes the featured book in the Unsung Masters Series. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commissioning in 1998 until 2005. It is so large and bright that it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. A common legend with a modern twist is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named, leaving only six of the sister stars visible to the unaided eye. Other methods can then extend the distance scale from open clusters to galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and a cosmic distance ladder can be constructed. The high visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky has guaranteed it a special place in many cultures, both ancient and modern. [63], A second tale tells the Pleiades are six brothers who rescue their sister, who becomes the seventh star of the constellation. In: Boutsikas, E., McCluskey, S.C., Steele, J. [10] This dust cloud is estimated to be moving at a speed of approximately 18 km/s relative to the stars in the cluster. So Allah's Apostle put his hand on Salman, saying, "Even if Faith were at (the place of) Ath-Thuraiya (pleiades, the highest star), then some men or man from these people (i.e. The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 2017, pp.100-122. To many other Berbers it is Tagemmunt ("the group").[5]. pl.) Move onward to find the Pleiades. It is also known as the Seven Sisters and designated as Messier 45. But this famous assembly could point the way to the world's oldest story, one told by our ancestors in Africa nearly 100,000 years ago, a speculative new study has proposed. Muslim domination of northern India in turn influenced the practice of Hinduism, and purdah became usual among the Hindu upper classes of northern India. Instead, it seems that the cluster is simply passing through a particularly dusty region of the interstellar medium. Their mother solves the quarrel by taking the princess as their sister. Photos and information on the Pleiades from the University of Calgary, Information and images from the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Dark Atmospheres Photography (deep nebulosity exposure), WEBDA open cluster database webpage on Pleiades cluster, The Pleiades (M45) at Constellation Guide, Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (medieval and early modern images of the Pleiades), Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pleiades&oldid=1131601715, Astronomical objects known since antiquity, Articles with dead external links from February 2022, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 4 January 2023, at 22:33. With larger amateur telescopes, the nebulosity around some of the stars can be easily seen; especially when long-exposure photographs are taken. Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades (Ats-tsuraiya) are the Star in Najm, which is mentioned in the Quran . [27] Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, and they are mentioned by Hesiod's Works and Days,[28] Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,[29] and the Geoponica. He rescues his sister and resurrects his brothers. In Ukrainian traditional folklore the Pleiades are known as (Stozhary), (Volosozhary), or - (Baby-Zvizdy). [30] The Pleiades was the most well-known star among pre-Islamic Arabs and so often simply referred to as "the Star" (al Najm). The wide spread in estimated ages is a result of uncertainties in stellar evolution models, which include factors such as convective overshoot, in which a convective zone within a star penetrates an otherwise non-convective zone, resulting in higher apparent ages. 2. The following table gives details of the brightest stars in the cluster: Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the HertzsprungRussell diagram for the cluster with theoretical models of stellar evolution. Interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures, The verse quoted here is verse 3 from the aforementioned chapter. [84] The myth of the Pleiades in South Pacific Islands is related to Matariki, and the stars were originally one.[85]. Studies show that the dust responsible for the nebulosity is not uniformly distributed, but is concentrated mainly in two layers along the line of sight to the cluster. The six stars in the Pleiades correspond to six wives, while the faithful wife Arundhati stuck with Sage Vasistha in Ursa Major. It also goes by many other names, directly transliterated from English ( pronounced "pleiades") and translated literally ( or 7 referring to "seven sisters"). At that time, Salman al-Farsi was with us. Could U plz explain the meaning of the following hadeeth: Narrated Abu Huraira: While we were sitting with the Prophet Surat al-Jumu'a was revealed to him, and when the Verse, "And He (Allah) has sent him (Muhammad) also to other (Muslims)..' (62:3) was recited by the Prophet, I said, "Who are they, O Allah's Apostle? Pleiades has gained, in a few tongues, several creative derivations of its French quite well-known, non-stellar meaning: "multitude". Pleiades is a star cluster that is visible in the night sky. According to the Seris (of northwestern Mexico), these stars are seven women who are giving birth. [64], The Shasta people tell a story of the children of raccoon killed by coyote avenging their father's death and then rising into the sky to form the Pleiades. He published his observations, including a sketch of the Pleiades showing 36 stars, in his treatise Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610. [56][65], In a tale from the Tachi people, the Pleiades are five sisters who lived in sky and marry a man named Flea. 1:45pm M3RT0M: Ah ok thx Tarheel. Due to lithium's very low ignition temperature of 2.5 106 K, the highest-mass brown dwarfs will burn it eventually, and so determining the highest mass of brown dwarfs still containing lithium in the cluster can give an idea of its age. [43] However, the author of the 20072009 catalog of revised Hipparcos parallaxes reasserted that the distance to the Pleiades is ~120 pc and challenged the dissenting evidence. Pleiades, (catalog number M45), open cluster of young stars in the zodiacal constellation Taurus, about 440 light-years from the solar system. They begged the rock to save them, and it grew higher and higher until they were pushed up into the sky. When the Pleiades fall, I wake looking for my goatskin bag to drink. The Pleiades are also surrounded by a nebulosity of interstellar dust and gas. Some component stars will be ejected after close encounters with other stars; others will be stripped by tidal gravitational fields. Islam is the second largest religion in the world after Christianity, with about 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. The Holy Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) put his hand on Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) and said. Coffin, Tristram Potter. It too is a common given name of Iranians, Afghanis and some Pakistanis (for example Parvin E'tesami). The star cluster is part of the neck of Taurus the Bull, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. The Holy Prophet sa turned to him, placed his hand on him and said, 'Even if faith ascended to the Pleiades [completely disappearing from the earth], there would be some from his people [in another version, "one man" is mentioned instead of "some people"] who would restore faith [back] to earth.'" ( Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-Tafsir, Hadith 4897) [33] The cluster is now known in Japan as Subaru. T. "The Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine". At a distance of about 444 light years, it is among the nearest star clusters to Earth. In Turkish the Pleiades are known as lker. [66], In a tale attributed to the Wyandot people, seven Singing Maidens, daughters of the Sun and the Moon, who live in Sky Land, descend to Earth and dance with human children. In Hinduism, the Pleiades are known as Kttik and are scripturally associated with the war-god Kartikeya but the Hindus celebrate the first day (new moon) of the month of Kartik as Diwali, a festival of abundance and lamps. Using this technique, ages for the Pleiades of between 75 and 150 million years have been estimated. Later work consistently argued that the Hipparcos distance measurement for the Pleiades was erroneous. [citation needed] They hold or held that when they can first make them out annually over the mountains straddling the upper Kali they feel happy to see their ancient kin. [3] Some scientists suggest that these may come from observations back when Pleione was further from Atlas and more visible as a separate star as far back as 100,000 BC. The name of the constellation inspired a group of Alexandrian poets, the Alexandrian Pleiad, then the French literary movement La Pliade. The Talmud (Berakhot 58b) suggests understanding as ke' me-ah (kimah), "about one hundred" stars in the Pleiades star cluster. Located 440 lightyears away, the Pleiades is an open star cluster contained in Charles Messier 's catalogue of clusters and nebulae, the Messier Catalogue, drawn up in 1781, as M45. The Pleiades open star cluster is located at around 444 light-years / 136 parsecs away from the Sun. Parvn), derivative of paoirya- meaning "first," are clearly indigenous and not, as was the case with . These are the Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters or M45. [73] The six wives fell in love with Agni, hence the name Pleiades (star of fire). The first two are references about their creation. A sure sign is if they teach polarity and fear, pick a side and fight, or someone is gonna come save ya. Pleiadas. Olcott, Frances Jenkins, and Milo Winter. Nurturing or Motherly by Nature. Springer, Cham. One of these stars, Merope, is located just outside the frame of this image to the upper right. In this paper I will analyse the different features of the Pleiades in the astronomical, astrological, and calendrical interpretation as well as their mythical and cultural background in ancient Mesopotamia. The Onondaga people's version of the story has lazy children who prefer to dance over their daily chores ignoring the warnings of the Bright Shining Old Man. The fact that they are like this is also further evidence of theveracity of the Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam., ShaykhAl-IslamIbn Taymiyyah said: The Quran and the Sunnah praised some non-Arabs; Allaah says (what means): {It is He who has sent among the unlettered a Messenger from themselves reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom - although they were before in clear error And [to] others of them who have not yet joined them. Paul Goble, a British-American author who often depicted Native American stories, tells a Blackfoot legend that he says is told by other tribes as well. [2] In 2012, Francis and Anderson[44] proposed that a systematic effect on Hipparcos parallax errors for stars in clusters biases calculation using the weighted mean and gave a Hipparcos parallax distance of 126 pc and photometric distance 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium, and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are all similar in age and composition to the Pleiades. To the Vikings, the Pleiades were Freyja's hens,[17] and their name in many old European languages such as Hungarian compares them to a hen with chicks. Cat ah as unt, ttukaye ttegmye, anwar da ttsasse. When he is ailed by an itch, they no longer like him and plan to leave him. This Dragon's mouth is the V-like constellation The Hyades Cluster, which is also known as the head of Taurus the Bull. You can get the definition (s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. ", The wording of At-Tabaraani from Qays reads: and the Arabs do not attain it, men from Persia would attain it. The narration by Muslim from Abu Hurayrah reads: If faith were at Pleiades, then a man from Persia would reach for it until he attains it." The approximate location of the Pleiades just above the Local Bubble in the middle of this map of the Orion Arm (yellow: major stellar associations; red: nebulae; grey: dark nebulae. The Pleiades cluster is very bright, with an apparent magnitude of 1.6 . In ancient Islamic legend, there exists the wonderful, contrary figure of Al-Khir, an immortal prophet who kills a youth out of mercy and who scuttles a boat of some travelers to deny the greed of a king. This material would ordinarily be invisible to us, but it's illuminated by the stars in what's known as a reflection nebula. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): "If you ask them (about this), they declare: 'We were only talking idly and joking.' 7:18am western_yogi: HebrianDaniel, most of those new ages are frauds and cons just trying to make money off the guillible. Thus lker erig literally means 'an army made up of a group of detachments', which forms an apt simile for a star cluster. [37], Dutch cartographer Claudius de Goeje reported that the Pleiades constellation among the Arawak is named wwa y-koro and marks the beginning of the year. Old Testament, the Pleiades appear (untranslated as , "Khima") thrice. Pleiadas is the rendering in the A.V. In New Age lore, some believe that Sun and the Earth will pass through a Photon belt from the Pleiades, causing a cataclysm and/or initiating a spiritual transition (referred to variously as a "shift in consciousness," the "Great Shift," the "Shift of the Ages"). Brown dwarfs can retain their lithium, however. As-Suyooti said: This Hadeeth narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim is an authentic source, reliablein its reference to Abu Haneefah; its soundness is agreeable, andit eliminates the need for the reports of thebiographerswho have no knowledge about the sciences of Hadeeth, asin the chain of narrators of those reports there are liars and fabricators. [End of quote] [Abridged], Moreover, the Commentary of Ash-Shabraamallisi, citingthe prominent scholar Ash-Shaami, the student of As-Suyooti, reads: What our Shaykh authoritatively determined - that it is Abu Haneefah who is meant by this Hadeeth - is apparent and there is no doubt about it; because no man from the people of Persia reached his status in knowledge., You can search for fatwa through many choices. In Ukraine this asterism was considered a female talisman until recent times. Five of the other Pleiades were also loved by gods becoming ancestresses of various royal families including those of Sparta and Troy. [citation needed] According to scholarship, some of the themes in their Pleiades stories involve dancing, a punishment inflicted on the characters, or the characters escaping to the sky.[36]. The Pleiades in Arab Folklore The most famous star in Islamic folklore is undoubtedly the Pleiades. As we approach Samhain ( October 31 - November 1) our awareness naturally moves in the same circles as our ancient ancestors as we all prepare for a shift in the seasons. (Sahih al-Bukhari) Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If the din were at the Pleiades, even then a person from Persia would have taken hold of it, or one amongst the Persian descent would have surely found it. Salman's folk) would attain it." [56], The early Monte Alto Culture, and others in Guatemala such as Ujuxte and Takalik Abaj, made their early observatories using the Pleiades and Eta Draconis as reference; they were called the seven sisters, and thought to be their original land. They used to dance the traditional round dances and sing the glorious songs to honor the gods. In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were seven sisters who were the daughters of the Titan Atlas and the nymph Pleione. In Western astrology they represent coping with sorrow[18] and were considered a single one of the medieval fixed stars. Open cluster in the constellation of Taurus, This article is about the star cluster. Saiph which is Orion's sixth brightest star, is named saif . by Allen, Richard Hinckley, 1838-1908. Pleiadians seem to have males and females. [32] Subaru [ edit] In Japan, the cluster is mentioned under the name Mutsuraboshi ("six stars") in the 8th-century Kojiki. They have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world,[18] including the Celts (Welsh: Tr Tewdws, Irish: Streoilln), Hawaiians (who call them Makalii[19]), Mori (who call them Matariki), Indigenous Australians (from several traditions), the Achaemenid Empire, whence in Farsi (who called them Parvn or Parv),[20] the Arabs (who call them al-Thurayya[21]), the Chinese (who called them mo), the Quechua (who call them Qullqa or the storehouse), the Japanese (who call them / Subaru), the Maya, the Aztec, the Sioux, the Kiowa,[22][23] and the Cherokee. According to the legend, seven maids lived long ago. " A narration by Al-Bukhari and Muslim from Abu Hurayrah reads: " I swear by the One in Whose hand my soul is, if faith were hanging at Pleiades, a man from Persia would attain it. It is a reflection nebula, caused by dust reflecting the blue light of the hot, young stars. Its disappearance in April (the 10th month) and the appearance of the star Achernar signals the beginning of the cold season. [citation needed]. Pleiades. Another etiological tale, from a Slavic source, is The Seven Stars: a princess is kidnapped by a dragon, so the high chamberlain seeks a "Dragon-mother" and her sons, who each possess extraordinary abilities, to rescue her. Accurate knowledge of the distance allows astronomers to plot a HertzsprungRussell diagram for the cluster, which, when compared to those plotted for clusters whose distance is not known, allows their distances to be estimated. One of them (the Lost Pleiad ) hides, either from grief or shame. John Michell calculated in 1767 that the probability of a chance alignment of so many bright stars was only 1 in 500,000, and so surmised that the Pleiades and many other clusters of stars must be physically related. As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. 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