Pleiades As the Goddess Selu/Selene

The Druid Pleiades seems to have been the center of its own person-like Druid constellation. This is unlike today where it has been downgraded to an appendage of the Greek (Indo-European) constellation of Taurus. The four stars making the square are shown on the Nebra Sky Disk and on the Temple Token from Palmyra. Today the top 2 stars are called Algol and Epsilon Persei. The bottom 2 are Aldebaran and Lamda Tauri. Thus, the Druid constellation manages to include two major stars of Algol and Aldebaran. 

The Nebra disk also shows a "head" star over the top stars suggesting the Druid constellation is a person or deity. This would be the star Mirfak at the center of the constellation Perseus. Of all the Druid deities the most astronomical is the motion source goddess Selene who represents both the spark of life and celestial light. Thus, thus the Druid Pleiades constellation is the goddess Selu/Selene.

from Wikimedia Commons at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg

(February 23, 2024, Updated December 22, 2024) The Nebra sky disc is a bronze disc of around 30 cm (12 in) diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg (4.9 lb), having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. It was buried on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in Germany. It is dated by archaeologists to c. 1800–1600 BCE and attributed to the Early Bronze Age Unetice culture.

For an excellent detailed analysis see: https://www.emuseum-himmelswege.de/en/archaeostories

(May 6, 2023, updated February 17, 2025 ) This stone amulet has two texts of differing letter styles, Text 2 is early Etruscan while text 1 is early Israelite (Gezer).  

The upper image shows various powers of the night sky starting with the crescent moon representing the goddess Ayu. Going around clockwise from that are: Pleiades, Southern Cross, an unknown constellation looking like an ax head, Cygus the swan, and another 1 or 2 unknown constellations.

The lower image consists of people bringing offerings (nourishments in the text) to a temple.

In ancient times the Southern Cross (Crux) was part of the Greek constellation Centaurus. It was visible to the ancient Greeks along the horizon only during the summer but the Earth’s axial precession gradually took the stars of Crux to the far southern sky making them invisible from most locations in the northern hemisphere. By the year 400 CE, the Southern Cross had fallen below the horizon for most of Europe. It was rediscovered by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Its cross shape was the letter "T" in Druid Akkadian. This represented the word meaning "astrology magic," that is, the magic associated with the dark new moon god and motion source god Su.

The Pleiades dips below the horizon at Mediterranean latitudes at the start of the stormy season in Late October/November so they became associated with the winds (motion powers) which brought the rains. In Greek mythology the Pleiades were associated with the motion source goddess Artemis (Druid Selene). 

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 36)

1. (Israelite) Bu  Ru  Lu  Pu.  Bu  Ḫu  EŠu (Lev 36.1)
2. (Etruscan) Bu  GaPu  ITu  IRu  Ya (Lev 36.2)

In English

1. Nourishments for eagle-vultures can cause a lack of openings. Nourishments for Hu can cause confusion.
2. Nourishments for the winged-ones (Hu and Ayu) do not astrologically-empower the omens (that requires astrology magic).

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