From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved "Volume III - The Second Month - Star Names for Taurus"
In the Third Month of Taurus

Star Names of Taurus
a Aldebaran or Aldeb'aran, which is Arabic for "the follower" (of the Pleiades).    The eye of the bull is also the bottom star of the sideways V of the Hyades.

• Also the Arabic Ad-Dabaran, "Follower" of the Pleiades.
• Another spelling is Al Debaran or Al Dabaran located in the bull's eye, and in Arabic means "The Captain," or "The Leader," or the "Governor."    Christ is the Captain coming forth.
  • In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "a (in the bull's eye) has a Chaldee name - Al Debaran, the leader or governor."
• 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 #5 Pidnu.
  • Babylonian #6 Surnarkabtišailtânu.
    • In the Libra star name section we find a reference to the Babylonian #22 Nûru-šailtânu.
  • Babylonian #7 Surnarkabtišašutu.
    • In the Libra star name section we find a reference to the Babylonian #21 Nûru-šašûtu.
  • Arabic #4 Dabarân, Aldebaran, Al Dabaran, "Follower."
    • Another source shows Arabic lunar station #2 Al Dab'aran (a Tauri, the Hyades).
    • To Rolleston it is the 4th manzil of the lunar mansion, is called "Al Debaran, the ruling (Syriac and Arabic), Hebrew by command, word."
    • In the "Gospel of the Stars," by Joseph Seiss, page 142, the 20th name of the lunar mansion, "Al Debaran, the Leader, the Governor, the Subduer."
      • Subdue.
        • Hebrew dabar, daw-bar', a primary root perhaps properly to arrange, but used fig. (of words) to speak, rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue, answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, subdue, talk, teach, tell think.
    • Some call Aldebaran - "The Governor - from God (Psalm 22:1; 1 Peter 1:11)."
    • The Coptic Mansion of the moon according to Kircher is pi-orion, greater station of Horus, the eye of Taurus / the bull, associated with Aldebram, Aldelamen, eye or head of Taurus or The eye of Taurus, Latin statio Hori maior oculus, connection to Al Dabaran, The Follower (Addauennam).
      • As to the Egyptian/Coptic, we see the Egyptian Apis, compared to the Hebrew noph, moph, where Memphis (mem'-fis) see also Noph (Hosea 9:6) is the Hebrew Moph, mofe, of Egyptian origin, Moph, the capital of Lower Egypt, Memphis, compared to Hebrew Noph.    Then Noph (nof) (Found in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel) the Hebrew Noph, nofe, a variant of Hebrew Moph, mofe, Noph, is the capital of Upper Egypt, Noph.    The Coptic menphe, memphi.    Greek Bull of Memphis.
      • We will see this in the Pleiades later, 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.
      • As seen on the Taurus Decan, the Coptic called this Isis, who saves mightily, see also Apis, who cometh.    It is also noted that some claim that this is the Station of Horus, and means coming.    In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 120 "The Egyptian Zodiac of Denderah already, 4,000 years ago had forgotten the truth to which the prophecy had referred, and called him (Taurus) Isis, i.e., who saves or delivers, and Apis, i.e., the head or chief."
• Other names for Aldebaran: Hadi al Najm, Cor Tauri, Parilicium, Ab'en Ezra, Achir (in Khorasmia), Al Fatik, Addeb'iris, Ain al Thaur, Deb'iron, Al Dab'aran (2nd manzil), note Hyades, Kalb al Dab'aran, Saik al Thuray'ya, Tali al Najm, Thaur al Thuray'ya, A'tin, Hain' Attor', Al Fanik.
  • One source claims Aldebaran is one of the four Royal stars or Guardians of the Sky mentioned by Zarathustra around 3,000 B.C. with its Persian name Tascheter in the vernal equinox (Watcher of the East).

b El Nath, (Al Nath, El Natik) is Arabic for "the butting" (horn) or "the butting one," for it forms the tip of the Northern horn of the bull.    Although El Nath is in Taurus it is also connected to the polygon of the constellation of Auriga.

• Also Arabic An-Nath, "the butting."
• In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 121 "b (at the tip of the left horn) has an Arabic name - El Nath, meaning wounded or slain."
• Other names for El Nath: Alnath, Nath, Al Natih (27th manzil).

    As follows the g, d and e Taurii represent the Taurus star names of the star cluster called the Hyades which is a group of about 200 Stars.

g Taurii (no name) is the vertex of the V of the Hyades.

• One source calls this g Primus Hyadum, meaning "first Hyad."
• Other names for this star are: Hyadum I, Aw'wal al Dabarain.
• At the end of the Taurus constellation section is a reference to the Sumerian EN.ME.SHÁR.RA, which builds as (en, lord + me, power, divine decree + šár, totality, world + ra, nominative ending, overflow, or with šár-ra, temple) leaving the meaning possibly as "universal decrees of divine authority of the (lord) spiritual head of the temple."
  • Perhaps, the northern stars of Taurus, g Taurii (no name) is the vertex of the V of the Hyades and the o Atik, Arabic "collarbone," a lower star found in Persei, have some mysterious connection to events to come.

d Hyadum II.

e Ain or 'Ain, which in Arabic means "bull's eye," or (second) "eye of the bull" (after Aldebaran) or "Eye" of the Bull.

• Eye.
  • Hebrew 'ayin, ah'-yin, primary word, an eye, by analogy a fountain.
  • Hebrew 'ayin, ah'-yin, identified in the sense of query, where, thus as if from a primary root meaning to be nothing or not exist, a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle, neither, never, no, nor, not.
  • Greek ophtalmos.
• Other names for Ain: Al 'Ain', Oculus Boreus.

z Taurii (no name), which is the tip of the southern horn of the bull.

On the left front leg is l and x, and the right front leg is m, and n, and of course the h Alcyone, in the Pleiades to round out the 12 stars in the constellation of Taurus, but also considered is the 10 others seen below in Pleiades.

    Pleiades is a star cluster listed as M45, not a constellation as Bullinger and Seiss believe, but it does contain the following (25 h Alcyone, then t (tau) 27, 17, 20, 23, 19, 28, 16, 21/22).
    See Star Clusters of Taurus for more information on Pleiades and Hyades.

Other star names not identified are:

• J Al'ya, (See Serpens).
• In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 122 "Other stars, not identified, are named
  Palilicium (Hebrew), belonging to the judge;
  Vergiliae (Latin), the centre, (Arabic) vertex, turned on, rolled round, of revolving, rolled."

Nebulae of Taurus    M1 is the famous Crab Nebula, the cloudlike remnants of a supernova explosion of a massive star is near z Taurii.    All that remains is a pulsar, a star the size of a city but more massive than the Sun, rotating many times a second and emitting radio waves.


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