by neufer » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:55 pm
The Winter Hexagon
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella_(star)][b]Wikipedia[/b][/url] wrote:
<<In Hindu mythology,
Capella was seen as the [
four star chambered?] heart of Brahma, Brahma Ridaya. To the Bedouin of the Negev and Sinai, Capella al-‘Ayyūq ath-Thurayyā "Capella of the Pleiades", from its role as pointing out the position of that asterism. Capella is thought to be mentioned in an Akkadian inscription dating to the 20th century BC. It is sometimes called the Shepherd's Star in English literature. Other names used by other cultures include: in Arabic, Al-Rākib "the driver", a translation of the Greek; in Quechua, Colca; and in Hawaiian, Hoku-lei (English: Star-wreath).
[Finnegans Wake p. 463.15] Got by the one goat, suckled by the same nanna, one twitch, one nature makes us oldworld kin.
The name Capella (English: small female goat) is from Latin, and is a diminutive of the Latin Capra (English: female goat). Capella traditionally marks the left shoulder of the constellation's eponymous charioteer, or the goat that the charioteer is carrying. In Roman mythology, the star represented the goat Amalthea that suckled Jupiter. It was this goat whose horn, after accidentally being broken off by Jupiter, was transformed into the Cornucopia, or "horn of plenty", which would be filled with whatever its owner desired. Astrologically, Capella portends civic and military honors and wealth. In the Middle Ages, it was considered a Behenian fixed star, with the stone sapphire and the plants horehound, mint, mugwort, and mandrake as attributes. Cornelius Agrippa listed its kabbalistic sign Agrippa1531 Hircus.png with the name Hircus (Latin for goat).
In traditional Chinese astronomy, Capella was part of the asterism 五車 (Simplified Chinese: 五车; Wŭ chē; English: Five Chariots), which consisted of Capella together with β, ι, and θ Aurigae, as well as β Tauri. Since it was the second star in this asterism, it has the name 五車二 (Simplified Chinese: 五车二; Wŭ chē èr; English: Second of the Five Chariots). In Australian Aboriginal mythology for the Booroung people of Victoria, Capella was Purra, the kangaroo, pursued and killed by the nearby Gemini twins, Yurree (Castor) and Wanjel (Pollux).>>
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[quote=" [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella_(star)][b]Wikipedia[/b][/url]"]
<<In Hindu mythology, [url=http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/capella.html][b]Capella[/b][/url] was seen as the [[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella_(star)][b]four star[/b][/url] chambered?] heart of Brahma, Brahma Ridaya. To the Bedouin of the Negev and Sinai, Capella al-‘Ayyūq ath-Thurayyā "Capella of the Pleiades", from its role as pointing out the position of that asterism. Capella is thought to be mentioned in an Akkadian inscription dating to the 20th century BC. It is sometimes called the Shepherd's Star in English literature. Other names used by other cultures include: in Arabic, Al-Rākib "the driver", a translation of the Greek; in Quechua, Colca; and in Hawaiian, Hoku-lei (English: Star-wreath).
[b][Finnegans Wake p. 463.15] Got by the one goat, suckled by the same nanna, one twitch, one nature makes us oldworld kin. [/b]
The name Capella (English: small female goat) is from Latin, and is a diminutive of the Latin Capra (English: female goat). Capella traditionally marks the left shoulder of the constellation's eponymous charioteer, or the goat that the charioteer is carrying. In Roman mythology, the star represented the goat Amalthea that suckled Jupiter. It was this goat whose horn, after accidentally being broken off by Jupiter, was transformed into the Cornucopia, or "horn of plenty", which would be filled with whatever its owner desired. Astrologically, Capella portends civic and military honors and wealth. In the Middle Ages, it was considered a Behenian fixed star, with the stone sapphire and the plants horehound, mint, mugwort, and mandrake as attributes. Cornelius Agrippa listed its kabbalistic sign Agrippa1531 Hircus.png with the name Hircus (Latin for goat).
In traditional Chinese astronomy, Capella was part of the asterism 五車 (Simplified Chinese: 五车; Wŭ chē; English: Five Chariots), which consisted of Capella together with β, ι, and θ Aurigae, as well as β Tauri. Since it was the second star in this asterism, it has the name 五車二 (Simplified Chinese: 五车二; Wŭ chē èr; English: Second of the Five Chariots). In Australian Aboriginal mythology for the Booroung people of Victoria, Capella was Purra, the kangaroo, pursued and killed by the nearby Gemini twins, Yurree (Castor) and Wanjel (Pollux).>>[/quote]