Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere (1911)
Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 428
is a reduplication of the noc-turnal sun, the fish sun concealed in the waters. Thearchaic myth is that of the resumption of the cultivationof the earth after the catastrophe of the Flood. The Arabs knew the Western Fish as Al-Hut, theFish, and they considered the stars in the Northern Fishas part… … Pisces, the Fishes 311 vians the month of Pisces was represented by two stargroups, one called the Terrace of the Granaries or theDoves, a name also given to the Pleiades. This groupwas figured as a kind of net with numerous meshes. Forsome unexplained reason the Pleiades seem to have…
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