Pleyads and M45, historical conjuntions

We can classify the encounter as the goddess of the love visits the seven sisters, and thus it was, he was the 3 of April of 2004 when the goddess perfumed of love to the seven solitary sisters and always looked for by Orion hunter. The astronomical phenomenon was precious and the mitológico of free thought of each one of the readers of this Web.

Mitología de las Pleyades

In Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pléyone, the daughter of the Ocean. Their names were Electra, Mayan, Taigete, Alcíone, Celeno, Astérope and Mérope. According to some versions of the myth, they committed suicide by the pain that produced the destiny to them of its father, Atlas, or by the death of its sisters, híades. Other versions make servants of Ártemis, goddess of the fauna and the hunting. It persecuted the hunting giant Orión, but the Gods were able to rescue them and they transformed them into doves. After his death or metamorphosis they were transformed into stars, but still it continues them persecuting by the sky Orion constellation

The dance of Pleyads by Elihu Vedder

Pleyads or M45 are a stellar accumulation of 400 or 500 stars, to about 415 years light of the Solar System, in the direction of the constellation Taurus. The stars are separated of others by a medium range of a year a light, and the photographies show that they are surrounded by a cloudiness that shines by the light that reflects of these stars. Greek the classic ones put this name to him by the ' Seven Hermanas' of mythology. There are observers who maintain that at first 12 stars of the cluster can be detected, although personally I see the seven sisters and not more.

Such beauty we observed in the constellation of Taurus during the cold winter in the North hemisphere and something next in the North horizon during the warm summery nights of January from the South dreamed one.

Taurus, the constellation.

The constellation of Taurus is in the North hemisphere. He is observable in the North hemisphere during the nights of winter and the month of January in the south. One is a constellation quite easy to locate. For more than thirty days the Sun crosses the constellation initiating therefore the month of taurus to pave. When cutting the ecliptic the constellation in two halves we as much observed in her as planets as the Sun crosses it in different months during the year. The accumulation of pleyades or M45 is to 4º to the north of the ecliptic, therefore, can be observed concealments on the part of our satellite, the Moon to this accumulation, really spectacular phenomenon; but in addition to be so next we can see as it is the case that keeps the step to us of the Venus planet by Pleyads.

We went back to the Mayans, and we observed that studies on the stars who made the Mayans and who today continue surprising the scientists is their obsession by the movement of the celestial bodies was based on the cyclical conception of history, and astronomy was the tool that used to know the influence the stars on the world.

THE CALENDAR OF 260 DAYS - TZOLKIN

The Mayan solar calendar was more precise that the one than today we used. All the cities of the classic period are oriented with respect to the movement of the celestial vault. Many buildings were constructed in order to stage celestial Earth phenomena, like the Castle of Chichén Itzá, where the reduction of Kukulkán is observed, serpent formed by the shades that are created in the vertices of the building during the solstices. The four stairs of the building add 365 steps, the days of the year. In the Dresde Codex and numerous wakes are the calculations of the cycles lunar, to pave, venusiano and the tables of regularity of the eclipses.

Between the Mayans, the chronology was determined by means of a complex calendárico and mathematical system. The calendar of the Mayans, that probably goes back to century I a.C., was based on one double accounting: the ritual or tzolkin (of 260 days) and the lot or haab (of 365 days). In the solar calendar, the year began when the Sun crossed the July zenith the 16; 364 days were grouped in 28 weeks of 13 days each one, and the New Year began day 365. In addition, 360 days of the year distributed in 18 months of 20 days each one. The weeks and the months passed to each other of sequential and independent form. Nevertheless, they always began the same day, that is to say, once every 260 days, number multiple as much of 13 (for the week) like of 20 (for the month). A cycle of 52 years solar or 73 rituals added 18,980 days and wheel was denominated ' calendaric.

The Mayan calendar, although very complex, was most exact of the known ones until the appearance the gregoriano calendar in century XVI. The simplest unit was the day or kin; a total of 20 kines composed a uinal; 18 uinales, tun (360 days); 20 tunes, katún (7,200 days) and so on. The end of katún specially was commemorated.

THE CALENDAR OF 365 DAYS - HAAB

According to some hypotheses they had controlled the passage of Venus by the accumulation of pleyades every eight years and for them it represented the beginning of a cycle or New Year and therefore, they became jumbled in making rituals bloody to request the Gods that did not get upset with the town and could continue living during another cycle on years. The numbers are clear, the annual cycle of the Mayans lasted 52 years, that 73 or calendárica wheel are from the rituals combination of. Sure

The cycle of Venus is combined with other cycles in periodic intervals. After five years of Venus, its cycle agrees with the solar cycle, since 5 xs 584 are equal to 8 365 xs = 2,290 days. That is, that 5 years sinódicos of Venus is equivalent to 8 years solar. The same one day-I sign and the same number only happens again each 65 cycles of Venus, that is, 65 584 xs = 37,960 days, the amount of days of 104 years solar, which is equivalent to two "tied" (or beams) of 52 years. The solar cycle of 365 days, the sacred cycle of 260 days and the cycle of Venus agree after to have passed two "centuries" of 52 years.

The disappearances and reappearances of Venus are the stellar analogies of the myth of Quetzalcóatl-Kukulcan. The Venus planet is Quetzalcóatl, "the Serpentquetzal" or "the Emplumada Serpent", denomination whose meaning can also be interpreted like "the precious binoculars", in reference to the two appearances of the planet that resemble twin stars. The Matutinal Star is Quetzal, "the Precious one".

A version of the myth of Quetzalcóatl counts how it threw itself to broken a funeral pyre compungido by having with his state of abstention being ebrio. Its heart rose from ashes, going back towards the sky to becoming the Matutinal Star.

Another version tells that, after dying and before reviving and promoting to its throne in the sky, in which it reigns like the Venus planet, Quetzalcóatl he remained invisible during several days while vagó by averno Venus, the Matutinal Star that is born later in the East and disappears before reappearing in the west as the Vespertine Star, crosses the universe as it makes a ship by the water. The passage through the cosmos means the passage of the death towards the Renaissance. The helíaca exit of the Matutinal Star in the East is of bad augury. For that reason, when Quetzalcóatl reappears after being in averno, it throws to the sky his luminous lances and their rays. If it crosses with his lances to a God, the gifts that this one confers will lose by that year; if it crosses with them to the Goddess of Waters, will be drought; and if it cleaves the God of the Labyrinths, then the harvests will fail. Each victim means some aspect of the daily life.

This is informed in the Table of Venus of the Codex of Dresden, in whose pages there are images in which Venus disappears before its helíaca exit and in which Quetzalcóatl crosses victims with the lances of its luminous rays in the sky of the dawn, and that as appears it they are of bad augury.

They called to the Pleyades Tzab, the Mayan word is used to indicate the bells of a snake bell, perhaps by its imaginary similarity. To Géminis they called ac, turtle.

One has suggested Mayan old them had its own Zodiac, compound of thirteen houses and that this Mayan Zodiac can be represented in paginas 23 and 24 of the Peresiano Codex. If thus it will be, the three first signs or houses were Scorpion, Turtle and Bell, because these are the three first figures that are seen hanging of a band of constellations in means of the section that is in page 24 of this codex. The Pleiads had much to do in the direction of several ceremonial centers, and predicted the day of seedtime and the beginning of rains with their matinal exit of the 25 of April.

One is not any title of lésbica novel, but rather of a precious phenomenon that repeats every eight years exactly, and like so, I believe that it deserves lines in the Web of Masm.

Venus has a sinódico period of 583.93 days, that is to say, each almost six hundred days terrestrial Venus is in the same phase or elongación with respect to the Sun seen from the Earth and we observed it presenting/displaying the same phase. Peculiarly five sinódicos cycles are exactly eight years terrestrial. Therefore, every eight Venus years one is in the same position of the sky (it séase the Pleiads) and has the same phase and elongación with respect to the Sun, since it has been observed before, the Mayans already knew the phenomenon.

During the month of April of 2004 Venus it happened to less of 10' to the south of the cluster, phenomenon that I photographed with the digital camera Casio EX-Z4 of 4 megas that I have from the Majorcan locality of Can Picafort (Spain) the 3 of April. The results cannot be classified as spectacular but to be the first digital photo of astronomical character I cannot be complained.

They will really continue being more encounter between Venus and M45; since we have commented already the Mayans before knew this period, also, our western culture also knew it and it gave to certain symbolism the fact him that it repeated every eight years; in the book the code already Gives to Vinci de Dan Brown also explains the existing simbología with eight number and the cyclical period to us of eight years in the Olympic Games in old Greece, in addition to the trajectories pentaculares of Venus in the celestial vault.


The dates are identical, this time will pass more near the accumulation of the Pleyades to less of 20' of arc. The phase of Venus will be the same one since it agrees with the solar elongation.	The Maxima approach the 4 of April will take place, where sólamente it will happen to 5' of arc to the Atlas south, really amazing phenomenon to observe it.

Observing the phenomenon we see that every eight years more approaches the Pleyades, and really is thus because nothing less than eight years later as it is observed already in the graph commits Venus within the same stellar accumulation.

The great encounter

Nothing less than in 2028, we will observe as Venus is introduced within the accumulation of the Pleyades furrowing to its daughters happening to less of 5' to the south of Alcyone, to 1,5' to the south of Merope, to less of 1' of arc to the south of Pleyone and to 3' of arc to the Atlas north. The phase of Venus will be same 44% of the disc will be illuminated. It is a great opportunity to contemplate the astronomical phenomenon that already does more than thousand years that the human being has been studying and goldess.