Re: Meet the new neighbors: The solar system expands.

On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:03:59 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:53:03 +0000, D wrote:
>

Ahh... so Subaru expanded from cars to telescopes! And planet X might
exist after all. ;)

>
Of course you're just kidding, but for information, what happened was:
"Subaru" is a
word in Japanese - and what it is, is the Japanese word for the
Pleiades. Since
they're bright and beautiful, it seemed to be a nice thing to use as a
brand name
for an automobile company.

Research suggests that

'In Japanese, the word “Subaru” (???) translates to “unite” or “gather
together.”' <https://carvibehub.com/what-does-subaru-mean/>

So, it is the Japanese word for "unite" or "gather together", which is
used as the name of what the Greeks (and others) call the Pleiades.

If you think otherwise, what are the Japanese names of the Seven
Sisters making up the Pleiades? And those names had better be very
old, certainly predating any likely contact with the Western
tradition, not just tranlations/transliterations of names derived from
the Greek names or the Greek names themselves.

None of which changes what the word is used for, or what the car logo
has on it, of course.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"