THE GREEK MYTH OF PLEIADES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NATURAL DISASTERS. DECODING, DATING AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION

Authors

  • Amanda Laoupi Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning-NTUA, 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str., 15780, Athens, Greece

Keywords:

Pleiades, El Nio, Archaeomythology, Astromythology, Archaeoastronomy, Ethnoastronomy

Abstract

The strong multi-symbolic archetype of the Pleiades functions as a worldwide astromythological system going back to Upper Palaeolithic Era.The Greek version of the myth seems to embody a wide range of environmental symbolism, as it incorporates various information and very archaic elements about: a) the periodicity of the solstices and the equinoxes, b)the fluctuations on the biochemical structure of Earth’s atmosphere related to the global hydro -climatic phenomenon of ENSO, c) probable past observations of brightening of a star (nova) in the cluster of Pleiades, d) the primordial elements of the mythological nucleus of Atlantis’ legend and e)the remnants of Palaeolithic ‘proto-European’ moon culture.

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Published

2023-07-24

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)

Section

Articles