10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 30 Jan \ on: Pleiades and Jupiter Photography
Fun fact about the Pleiades:
In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there are seven of them?
Many cultures around the world refer to the Pleiades as “seven sisters”, and also tell quite similar stories about them. After studying the motion of the stars very closely, we believe these stories may date back 100,000 years to a time when the constellation looked quite different.
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100-000-years-151568
Fossil evidence from anatomically modern humans goes back 300,000 years while artifacts from behaviorally modern humans date back about 50,000 years. So I find it amazing that oral history could go back 100,000 years!
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/10/26/here-is-when-and-how-humans-attained-behavioral-modernity/
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