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<p>[QUOTE="CoinCorgi, post: 3470860, member: 88934"]Who knew!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I asked because I always thought Pleiades was known as the Seven Sisters. So google it and I found an article...</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Her face graces <a href="https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/maryross.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/maryross.htm" rel="nofollow">a sculpture at Buffalo State College</a> and <a href="https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/native-space-ace-mary-golda-ross-portrait-by-america-meredith/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/native-space-ace-mary-golda-ross-portrait-by-america-meredith/" rel="nofollow">a painting by Cherokee artist America Meredith</a> that shows her against a starry, rocket-filled sky is now in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Entitled <i>Ad Astra per Astra, </i>meaning to the stars from the stars (a play on the Latin phrase "<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_aspera_ad_astra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_aspera_ad_astra" rel="nofollow">per aspera ad astra</a> </i>"), references a Cherokee origin story of how humans arrived on Earth from the Pleiades. Packed with symbolism—a seven-pointed star references the Seven Sisters constellation, the seven clans of the Cherokee and the seven directions in Cherokee cosmology—the portrait also includes a depiction of the Agena spacecraft.</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CoinCorgi, post: 3470860, member: 88934"]Who knew!!! ;) I asked because I always thought Pleiades was known as the Seven Sisters. So google it and I found an article... [INDENT]Her face graces [URL='https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/maryross.htm']a sculpture at Buffalo State College[/URL] and [URL='https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/native-space-ace-mary-golda-ross-portrait-by-america-meredith/']a painting by Cherokee artist America Meredith[/URL] that shows her against a starry, rocket-filled sky is now in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Entitled [I]Ad Astra per Astra, [/I]meaning to the stars from the stars (a play on the Latin phrase "[I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_aspera_ad_astra']per aspera ad astra[/URL] [/I]"), references a Cherokee origin story of how humans arrived on Earth from the Pleiades. Packed with symbolism—a seven-pointed star references the Seven Sisters constellation, the seven clans of the Cherokee and the seven directions in Cherokee cosmology—the portrait also includes a depiction of the Agena spacecraft.[/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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