#Krittika #Nakshatra is the 3rd star in the Zodiac. It extends from 26.4 deg Aries to 10 deg of Taurus. The #star is named after the Lord #Karthikeya, Son of Lord #Shiva. Lord Karthikeya is also the commander of the God.

In Hindu Puranic reference and when the demon Taraka was destroying the world and creating tremendous problems for all creatures and the gods. To defeat demon Taraka, all the gods united and got a seed from Lord Shiva and Shakti, the seed was thus cast in fire and protected by blue water. The Krittika (six nurses of Karthikeya) were requested to nourish it in their womb. Since six women came to feed him, he split (“Krittika”) into six forms to nurse from each mother simultaneously. He is known as Karthikeya because he was nursed by the Krittika. Karthikeya was thereby born and on the seventh day after his birth killed the mighty demon Taraka and thereby relieved the gods from the demons.

This star is also the name of its goddess-personification, who is a daughter of Daksha and Panchajani, and thus a half-sister to Khyati. Spouse of Krittika is #Chandra (“ #moon”).

In few of Hindu scriptures, the seven stars of the Big Dipper represent the seven sages. The six main stars of the #Pleiades are their six divorced wives — unfortunate goddesses. The seventh wife, Arundhati remains near her husband Vashistha as the star Alcor very close to Mizar.

Krittika is also known as the “Star of Fire” and is related to a commander, fighter, foster mother and glow of power, physical and creative force. Krittika being a female nakshatra suggests passivity, indicating that Krittika needs outer energy or life circumstance to activate their power.

In ancient Mesopotamia they were simply known in Sumerian as MUL.MUL (𒀯𒀯) and people of Mexico knew them as “Seed Stars”. In ancient Persian religions, the Pleiades is primarily known as Parvin pronounced Parveen. It too is a common given name of Iranians, Afghanis and some Pakistanis.

In Greek mythology, the stars of Pleiades represented the Seven Sisters. Several of the most prominent male Olympian gods (including Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares) engaged in affairs with the seven heavenly sisters. These relationships resulted in the birth of their children.

Interesting fact is Vedic astronomers calculated that Pleiades was rising star at the horizon around 2950 BCE that helps to give date during the Satapata Brahmana.

However, this is also true in three below cases: The Shatapatha Brahmana mentions that the Krittika (the Pleiades) “do not swerve from the east”. This would have been the case with precision at 2950 BCE and was true also about 2000 BCE but was still true to within 8–13 degrees (viz., East by north) around the 8th to 6th centuries BCE, the assumed date of the text’s composition.
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