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Subject: Re: Meet the new neighbors: The solar system expands.
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:24:36 -0400
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On 9/15/2024 11:13 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 9/15/2024 11:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:03:59 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:53:03 +0000, D wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ahh... so Subaru expanded from cars to telescopes! And planet X might
>>>> exist after all. ;)
>>>
>>> Of course you're just kidding, but for information, what happened was:
>>> "Subaru" is a
>>> word in Japanese - and what it is, is the Japanese word for the
>>> Pleiades. Since
>>> they're bright and beautiful, it seemed to be a nice thing to use as a
>>> brand name
>>> for an automobile company.
>>
>> Research suggests that
>>
>> 'In Japanese, the word “Subaru” (???) translates to “unite” or “gather
>> together.”' <https://carvibehub.com/what-does-subaru-mean/>
>>
>> So, it is the Japanese word for "unite" or "gather together", which is
>> used as the name of what the Greeks (and others) call the Pleiades.
>>
>> If you think otherwise, what are the Japanese names of the Seven
>> Sisters making up the Pleiades? And those names had better be very
>> old, certainly predating any likely contact with the Western
>> tradition, not just tranlations/transliterations of names derived from
>> the Greek names or the Greek names themselves.
>>
>> None of which changes what the word is used for, or what the car logo
>> has on it, of course.
> 
> I'll also add that the association of the Pleiades with a group of
> people is very, very old. Its found in cultures all over the world,
> from Australian Aborigines, to Native Americans, to Eurasians
> 
> Its similar to the way pretty much all Northern hemisphere cultures
> share in calling Ursa Major some variant of 'bear'. Its been suggested
> that the connection predates the migration across the Bering land
> bridge.
> 
> pt

I had gathered that _Subaru_ meant:
"Rides nice, but expensive to fix." :)

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Kevin R


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