Feb. 4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.
thus careful to point out that the Scimitar (in part) = the well-known
and famous solar Ram,which,cir. B.C. 2540, becamethe "dux et
princepsSignorum."
Line4, Star No. IV.
tB HP- *= a w %h -it
Kakkab Bar - tab - ba - gal - gal - la
The-star of -the-Great-Twins.
Thereare many greatandlittletwin-starsin the heavens, and,as
previouslynoticed,* the well-known " Great Twins" of the solar
Zodiacare Castor and Pollux ; but here we traverse the same region
(the ecliptic) froma different starting-point; and as we know exactly
wherewe have nowreached,i. e., immediately to the east of Aries,
we have no difficulty in recognizing "theGreatTwins"as the two
famousasterismsof the Pleiades and the Hyades, the 3rd Arabian
moonstation,includingAldebaran(" He-that-follows "—the Pleiades),
the 4th Arabian moon-station, so constantly coupledby the classic
writers,fromthe W\i)iahai ff 'Ya&ai of the Iliad downwards. Speak
ing of Perseus, Aratossays:—
" Nearhis left thigh togethersweepalong
Theflockof Clusterers.i Not a mighty space
Holdsall, and they themselvesare dim to see.
Andsevenpathsaloftmensay they take,
Yet six alone are viewed by mortal eyes.
FromZeus'abodeno star unknown is lost
Sincefirst from birthwe heard.{
Theythustogethersmalland faint roll on,
Yet notable at morn and eve through Zeus,
Whobadethemshowwhenwinterfirst begins,
Andsummer,and the season of the plough." §
- Proceedings, Feb.1889,p. 1 51.
t Vide Hahn, Tsuni|| Guam, p. 147. I think this derivation is decidedly
preferableto that whichconnectsthe name witha "sailing season." Notealso
the description of the Cluster, andcf. the Heb. Kimah(Jobix, 9; xxxviii, 31 ;
Amosv, 8), the Pleiades, which"is evidently nothingbut the Assyrian kimtu,
'family.' Thestemis kami, ' to tie,' the family beingcalledkimtubecauseits
membersare connected by one common tie " (Delitzsch, The Hebrew Language
viewedin the Light of AssyrianResearch,pp. 69-70).
- (Of anything.)
§ Phainomena, 254-60,264-7.
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