• As seen in the Taurus star names the g, d and e Taurii represent the star cluster called the Hyades.
      A Greek term hyein meaning 'to rain,' is related to the word Hyades, which in Greek Huades, probably from Hys meaning 'pig,' and the Roman Hyades was Suculae, 'the Little Pigs.'
      Allen claims: The Greeks knew them as Uades, which became "Hyades" with the cultured Latins, supposed by some to be from uein, "to rain," referring to the, wet period attending their morning and evening setting in the latter parts of May and November; and this is their universal character in the literature of all ages.
• In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "Hyades, the congregated (on the face of the Bull)," see Deut. 33:17, Psalm 44:5, Isaiah 13:11-15, 26:21, 34:2-8.
  • My comments: I find no validity in the word congregated and the Biblical verses used by Bullinger here in relation to the Hyades.
• One source calls it Mul-Is-Li-E, "The Bull's Jaw," the "V" pattern of stars known as Hyades.
  • Jaw.
    • Hebrew l^echiy, lekh-ee', from an unused root meaning to be soft, the cheek (from its fleshiness), hence the jaw-bone, cheek (bone), jaw (bone).
• Other names for the Hyades: Al Kala'is, Al Kabain, Al Kallas, Al Kilas, Al Mij'dab, Al Muh'dij.
  • Allen comments: Occasional Arabic titles were Al Mijdah, a Triangular Spoon, and Al Kilas, the Little She Camels, referring to the smaller stars in distinction from Aldebaran, the Large Camel; Al Ferghani wrote the word Kala’is.    These Little Camels appeared in one Arabic story as driven before the personified Aldebaran, in evidence of his riches, when he went again to woo Al Thurayya, the Pleiades, who previously had spurned him on account of his poverty.    Another author made the word Al Kallas, the Boiling Sea, so continuing in Arabia the Greek and Roman ideas of its stormy and watery character.    Generally, however, in that country, the Hyades were Al Dabaran, which was adopted in the 1515 Almagest, as well as in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521, where we read sunt stellae aldebaran, specially referring to the star gamma "of those in the face."    The Arabic title, therefore, was identical with that of the 2^nd manzil (Arabic Moon Mansion), which these stars constituted, as they also did the 2^nd nakshatra (Hindu Moon Mansion), Rohini, Aldebaran marking the junction with the adjacent Mrigacirsha.

• Seven sisters are Alcyone, Asterope, Calaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Taygete.
• Pleiades in Greek Mythology were the seven daughters of Atlas (Maia, Electra, Celaeno, Taygeta, Merope, Alcyone, and Sterope), who were metamorphosed into stars.    [Middle English Pliades, from Latin Pleiades, from Greek Pleiades].

    Pleiades were considered to the ancients as the "Rainy Ones" as in torrential rains.
    The Druids around 2000 B.C. also worshipped the bull, as they held their spring festivals when the Sun was in Taurus, and they especially honored the Pleiades.    Stonehenge may thus have some astronomical correlation still yet unknown.
    Mentioned in Job 9:8 "and Pleiades," it means literally "the heap of stars," Arabic, "knot of stars," since the stars are closely bound together.    It may also be mentioned in Amos 5:8 "the seven stars," literally "the heap or cluster of seven larger stars and other smaller," and Pleiades, which ushers in spring.    Pleiades is also Kimah, "heap" or "accumulation."

• Pleiades.
  • Hebrew Kiymah, kee-maw', from the same as Heb. kuwmaz, koo-mawz', from an unused root meaning to store away, a jewel (probably gold beads), tablet, thus a cluster of stars, i.e. the Pleiades, seven stars.
  • The Arabic root word is kum, meaning accumulate.
  • Assyrian Kamu, to bind.
  • Rolleston claims "Hebrew Chima, accumulation, Arab. sense, cumulus."
  • Sumerian du₆-ul: to heap up, store.
  • This was also a time when ancient Egypt was called the "land of Khem, (Kham or Ham), Khema (Pleiades was called by the Chaldeans, Chimah or Chima, "hinge.)"
    • Sumerian ^(giš)gag, kak: peg; nail, spike; bone; hinge, joint, knee, which has an esoteric connection to Heb. Vau letter, meaning "Peg" or "Nail."), and one source claims this is the Greek Khemia or Kimia, which correlates to the Sumerian/Babylonian Kimash.
      • Chemosh (ke'mosh).
        • Hebrew K^emowsh, kem-oshe', or (Jer. 48:7) K^emiysh, kem-eesh', from an unused root meaning to subdue, the powerful, Kemosh, the god of the Moabites, Chemosh.
  • In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "Pleiades, which means the congregation of the judge or ruler, comes to us through the Greek Septuagint."
  • Rolleston also confirms the Hebrew as "the congregation of the judge," and also "the abundance (abound, Heb. rab.)".
    • Abound.
      • Hebrew rab, rab, by contr. from Hebrew rabab, raw-bab', a primary root properly to cast together, compare to Hebrew rabiyb, raw-beeb, a rain (as an accumulation of drops), shower, thus increase, thus abundant, thus abound.
  • Persia called it Parvig.

• Sumerian dIMIN.BI, seen as (^dimin, divine seven + bi, its), "The Seven Gods," specified as the deities of MUL.MUL (the Pleiades) seen in the next group.
  • Sumerian imin_(2,3): seven; innumerable; totality (ía/í, 'five', + min, 'two').
  • Sumerian bi, bé: v., to diminish, lessen; to speak, say (accusative infix b 3rd pers. sing. neuter + e 'to speak') (cf., biz; bi[z]); pron., this one; that one; it; its; conj., and; art., the.
    • Sumerian bi₆ [BA]: to tear; to tear off (with -ta-).
• Akkadian ilu sibitti, "The Seven Gods."
• Note: Assyro-Babylonian Myth shows Nergal (as Erra) in command of the Sebitti, seven warriors (gods) who are also (in the sky) the Pleiades, they aid in his killing of noisy, over-populous people and animals.    He rallies them when he feels the urge for war, and calls Ishum to light the way.    They prefer to be used in war instead of waiting while Erra kills by disease.    They were children of Anu and the Earth-mother, who gave them fearsome and lethal destinies.
• Greek Pleiades, "maidens," or "Seven Sisters," named Alcyone, Asterope, Calaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Taygete, whose parents were Atlas (Greek Titan) and Pleione.
  • Alcyone, brightest of the seven stars of Pleiades, was considered by the ancients as the central point around which our universe of fixed stars revolved.
  
  
• Sumerian MUL.MUL, "The Stars," (Sumerian mul, star, thus reduplicated mul.mul, stars) whereas the Akkadian zappu, "The Bristle," or the Pleiades.
  • From www.lexiline.com, "The star cluster (MUL.MUL), the seven-fold deity, the great gods, the Pleiades, cloud of Spring, cluster, bubble."
    • Sumerian mul: n., star; constellation; planet; meteor; v., to sparkle, shine, glow.
      • Sumerian mùl: a destructive insect.
      • Sumerian ku-mul: cumin (Elamite ? loanword).
  • Sumerian kìlib, kìli: totality; star(s).
  • Sumerian šún: n., star; v., to shine brightly.
  • Sumerian barzil (AN.BAR): (meteoric) iron (bar, 'to shine', + zil, 'to cut, peel').
  • Hebrew kowkab, ko-kawb', probably from the same as Heb. Kabbown, kab-bone', from an unused root meaning to heap up, hilly (in the sense of rolling) or Heb. kavah, kaw-vaw', a primary root properly to prick or penetrate, hence to blister (as smarting or eating into), burn, thus (in the sense of blazing), a star (as round or as shining), fig. a prince, star (-gazer).
  • In the New Testament Greek astron, as'-tron, neutral from Greek aster, as-tare', probably from the base of Greek stroo, stro'-o, to strew, i.e. spread, a star (as strown over the sky), lit. or fig., star; properly a constellation, put for a single star (natural or artifical), star.
  
  
• Other names for Pleiades: Altor'ich, Altor'ieh, Atara'ge, Atora'ge, Ataur'ia (Chilmead), Al Thuray'ya, Turanya (S.Arabian), Athora'ce, Athorai'ae, Athorai'e, Al Najm.
  • Rolleston as well as in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "Al Thuraiya (Arabic) means the abundance."
  • Richard H. Allen comments on the following:
        Hesiod and Homer brought them into their most beautiful verse; the former calling them Atlagenes, Atlas-born.
        Kimah, a Cluster, or Heap, which the Hebrew herdsman-prophet Amos, probably contemporary with Hesiod, also used; the prophet's term being translated "the seven stars" in our Authorized Version, but "Pleiades" in the Revised.    The similar Babylonian-Assyrian Kimtu, or Kimmatu, signifies a "Family Group," for which the Syrians had Kima, quoted in Humboldt's Cosmos as Gemat.
        The Alfonsine Tables say that the "Babylonians," by whom were probably meant the astrologers, knew them as Atorage, evidently their word for the manzil Al Thurayya, the Many Little Ones, a diminutive form of Tharwan, Abundance, which Al Biruni assumed to be either from their appearance, or from the plenty produced in the pastures and crops by the attendant rains.    We see this title in Bayer's Athoraie; in Chilmead's Atauria quasi Taurinae; and otherwise distorted in every late mediaeval work on astronomy.    Riccioli, commenting on these in his Almagestum Novum, wrote Arabice non Athoraiae vel Atarage sed Altorieh sen Benat Elnasch, hoc est filiae congregationis; the first half of which may be correct enough, but the Benat, etc., singularly confounded the Pleiad stars with those of Ursa Major.    In his Astronomia Reformata he cited Athorace and Altorich from Aben Ragel.    Turanya is another form, which Hewitt says is from southern Arabia, where they were likened to a Herd of Camels with the star Capella as the driver.
        A special Arabic name for them was Al Najm, the Constellation par excellence, and they may be the Star, or the Star of piercing brightness, referred to by Muhammad in the 53rd and 86th Suras of the Kuran, and versified from the latter by Sir Edwin Arnold in his At Hafiz, the Preserver.

• J. Epping (1889) "Astronmisches Aus Babylon," provides the Babylonian and Hassan Al-Saba (Saudia Arabia) provides the Arabic source for the following 28 lunar mansion names listed as:
  • Babylonian #4, Temennu.
    • Euphratean Te, from Timmena, "foundation-stone," or "Bull-of-the-Foundation" of the sky.
    • Sumerian temen: perimeter; foundations; foundation-charter; foundation platform.
      • Sumerian unug, unu₆ [TEMEN-ÈŠ]: elevated shrine, temple. (See Scorpius for more information).
      • Sumerian Unug is the same as Uruk, or the Biblical Erech, near modern Warka.
    • Some sources favor the ruins of Etemenanki (e-temen-an-ki), which is the Sumerian name, "House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth," as the likely spot for the Tower of Babel, since it may be located in Babylon, fifty miles south of today's Baghdad, Iraq.    It was once believed to be Birs Nimrud in Borsippa (modern Es-sahen).
    • Foundation.
      • Hebrew 'eden, eh'den, from the same as Heb. 'adown, aw-done', or (short.) 'adon, aw-done', from an unused root (meaning to rule), sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine), lord, master, owner (some compare this to Adoni-), thus (in the sense of strength), a basis (of a building, a column, etc.), foundation, socket.
      • Hebrew 'osh (Chald.), ohsh, corresp. to Heb. 'ashuwyah, ash-oo-yah, fem. pass. part. from an unused root meaning to found, foundation, thus a foundation.
      • Hebrew yeçowd, yes-ode', from Heb. yaçad, yaw-sad', a primary root, to set, to found, settle, establish, lay, ordain, set, a foundation, bottom, foundation.
      • Hebrew mowçadah, mo-saw-daw', or moçadah, fem. of Heb. muwçad, moo-sawd', a foundation.
      • Hebrew makown, maw-kone', from Heb. kuwn, koon, to be erect, properly a fixture, i.e. basis, gen. a place, esp. as an abode, foundation, settled place.
    • Corner stone.
      • Sumerian na₄: pebble, stone; token; hailstone; weight.
      • In Job 38:6, Hebrew pinnah, pin-naw', fem. of Heb. pen, pane, from an unused root meaning to turn, an angle (of a street or wall), corner, thus an angle, by implication a pinnacle, fig. a chieftain, bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.
  • Arabic #3 Thurayyâ, Azoraya, Al Thurayya, "Many Little Ones," or "Abundance."    Some claim that this represents Pleiades (eta 25, then tau 27, 17, 20, 23, 19, 28, 16, 21/22).
    • Another source shows Arabic lunar station #1 as Al Thurayya.
    • To Rolleston it is the 3rd manzil of the lunar mansion, and is called "Al Thuraiya, the multitude, the abundance (Isaiah 15:7)."    Note this may be connected to Pleiades.
      • Abundance.
        • Hebrew yithrah, yith-raw', feminine of Hebrew yether, yaw-thar', properly excellence, i.e. (by implication) wealth, abundance, riches.
    • Rolleston as well as in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121-122 "Al Thuraiya (Arabic) means the abundance."
    • In the "Gospel of the Stars," by Joseph Seiss, page 142, the 19th name of the lunar mansion, "Al Thuraiya, the enemy punished."
    • The Coptic Mansion of the moon according to Kircher is orias, station of Horus the hen of the skies with her daughters (also chicks), associated with Achaomazone, Athoraye, rainy ones or Pleiades or The Mansion of Horus (also the Hen of the skies with her sons) joining, Latin statio Hori Gallina caeli, cum filiabus suis (the Pleiades), connection to Al Thurayya, The Many Little Ones (Athoraie).
      • This is seen in the Taurus Star Names, as Allen states: In Coptic Egypt it, or the Pleiades, was Orias, the Good Season, Kircher's Static Hori, although it was better known as Apis, the modern form of the ancient Hapi, whose worship as god of the Nile may have preceded even the building of the pyramids.

• Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus (The god of the winds) who, in grief over the death of her husband Ceyx, threw herself into the sea and was changed into a kingfisher.
• A nymph, one of the Pleiades.
• In astronomy it is the brightest star in the Pleiades, which is in the constellation Taurus [Latin, from Greek Alkuone, from alkuon, kingfisher].
• Another source claims that Alcyone in S. America is CA-jupal, in Gaelic it is Cran-narain, and in the Vedic it is Kar-teek, the first nakshatra or manazil.
• In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "h in all the maps, has come down to us with an Arabic name - Al Cyone, which means centre (whole universe, note hinge)."
• Also called Al Wa'sat, which Rolleston as well as in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 122 "Wasat (Arabic), centre."
  • As seen here Al Wa'sat on h Alcyone, could also mean as Rolleston adds "the centre, foundation, the established."
  • A star name in Gemini is d Wasat, Wa'sat, is a recent Arabic name called "the middle," seen also in the waist of Apollo, which means in Arabic "Set."    Arabic Wasat as-Sama', "middle of the sky."
    • In the "Gospel of the Stars," by Joseph Seiss, page 113 "Wasat, Set, Seated, Put in place."
    • Other names for Wasat: We'sat, Al Wa'sat.
• Other names for Alcyone: Altor'ic, Altor'ich, Athor'ric, Athor'rich, Al Jauz, Al Jau'zah (Arab).

• Rolleston "Hebrew, Arabic, and Egyptian Atlas, means high, as a mountain (eminent)."

• Electra was a daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon who was the king of Mycenae, an ancient Greek city in the northeast Peloponnesus that flourished during the Bronze Age as the center of an early civilization.    As part of the legendary capital of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, Agamemnon was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia.    He was killed by his wife Clytemnestra upon his return from Troy or Argos, which was a city of ancient Greece in the northeast Peloponnesus near the head of the Gulf of Argolis.    Inhabited from the early Bronze Age, it was one of the most powerful cities of ancient Greece until the rise of Sparta (or Agamemnon), who with her brother Orestes avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing their mother and her lover, Aegisthus, son of Thyestes a king of Mycenae.
• Rolleston states "Electra, means the abundance."

• Maia was a goddess and the eldest of the Pleiades.
• Some claim that it is the brightest star in the Pleiades [Latin Maia, from Greek, from maia, good mother, nurse].
• In the New Testament the Greek word for nurse is ('Trophos') as in 1 Thess. 2:7 it denotes a nursing mother.
• Rolleston states "Maia, means the multitudes (many)."

• Merope who hid her face in shame after marrying a mortal.
• One of the six stars in the Pleiades cluster, faintly visible to the unaided eye [Greek Merope].
• Rolleston states "Merope, means the weakened."

• One of the six visible stars in the Pleiades cluster [Latin Taygete, from Greek Taugete].
• Rolleston states "Taygeta, means bound together (bunch)."
• Also called Al Wa'sat, which Rolleston as well as in "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 122 "Wasat (Arabic), centre."
  • As seen here Al Wa'sat on h Alcyone, could also mean as Rolleston adds "the centre, foundation, the established."

• Rolleston states "Greek Pleione, means abundance."

• One of the six stars in the Pleiades cluster that is visible to the naked eye [Latin Celaeno, from Greek Kelaino].
• Rolleston states "Celene, the collected together (all)."
• Other names for Celaeno: lost Pleiad, Celieno, Celeno.

• One of the seven Pleiades or one of the stars in the constellation Pleiades.
• Rolleston states "Asterope, the light, Job 11:17, that fails, is weak."