Lisa O'Neill's song Old Note, as played in her Tiny Desk concert. She says "It's about how we communicated before we started writing things down. We call this orality. And all our indigenous cultures communicated all the information they needed to know about the environment, the astronomical information, the land, the plants, the insects and animals around them, and even when each person came into the world; it was all communicated through this map of music..."
"I guess that in places in the world where Matariki / Pleiades moves across the sky rather than just peeping over the horizon, Orion moves after her… Northerners? Tell us."
Yes! First the Pleiades rise over the horizon, then comes Taurus, then Orion.
In the Greek myths, the Pleiades were put in the sky to rescue them from Orion's attentions, then when he too was put there, he was placed so that he would be always chasing but never catch them. There's also a connection between the Pleiades and bees, and between the bees and the bull. Alan Garner's novel Thursbitch weaves these threads in some astonishing ways.
Lisa O'Neill's song Old Note, as played in her Tiny Desk concert. She says "It's about how we communicated before we started writing things down. We call this orality. And all our indigenous cultures communicated all the information they needed to know about the environment, the astronomical information, the land, the plants, the insects and animals around them, and even when each person came into the world; it was all communicated through this map of music..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hMxG92KTGE
"I guess that in places in the world where Matariki / Pleiades moves across the sky rather than just peeping over the horizon, Orion moves after her… Northerners? Tell us."
Yes! First the Pleiades rise over the horizon, then comes Taurus, then Orion.
In the Greek myths, the Pleiades were put in the sky to rescue them from Orion's attentions, then when he too was put there, he was placed so that he would be always chasing but never catch them. There's also a connection between the Pleiades and bees, and between the bees and the bull. Alan Garner's novel Thursbitch weaves these threads in some astonishing ways.