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

On 9/15/2024 11:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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.

I'll also add that the association of the Pleiades with a group of
people is very, very old. Its found in cultures all over the world,
from Australian Aborigines, to Native Americans, to Eurasians
Its similar to the way pretty much all Northern hemisphere cultures
share in calling Ursa Major some variant of 'bear'. Its been suggested
that the connection predates the migration across the Bering land
bridge.
pt