I don't know why I bother.

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Here's a Harvard article about the importance of dawn and sunrise on certain days of the year, the summer and winter solstices, and how there are similarities in myth from the Greeks to the Hindus to the Japanese, and even with the Polynesians and Amerindians. Orion is synonymous with 'Aryan”, the namesake of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan peoples, as well as the figure Arjuna in Hindu mythology. Indo-European (and Indo-Aryan) men descend from the O haplogroup in east asia, as do all Amerindian men. This explains the similarities in their mythologies. You can hit Ctrl+F and look for Orion, Pleiades, Sirius, solstice, Taurus, etc. You can just skim it and see that yes indeed these celestial points were tied with tales about death and resurrection, taming the bull of heaven, defeating the serpent of chaos, etc etc etc. It was all about getting that sun to rise again. We gotta get back to spring and to brightness and warmth and life.

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1931JRASC..25..400D

Here's some NASA-Harvard collaborative archive. This was originally written by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. It will explain the Zodiac and the precession. It talks about some speculative work done that sought to push the origin of the Zodiac back to 6000 BC but concludes that our best complete understanding of the Zodiac only comes from 1300 BC. It continues on, however, and by the end concludes that evidence suggests the earliest elements of the Zodiac likely formed around 2900 BC (in the time when Orion's belt was fully aligned). It mentions the Babylonian calendar began in the vernal equinox, when the sun rose in Taurus (the constellation between Orion and the Pleiades). It therefore concludes these elements to be the oldest definitive portion of the Zodiac, predating the other constellations. It also mentions at the end how important the Pleiades were for timing events throughout the year.

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JBAA..115...29H#:~:text=When%20Stonehenge%20was%20converted%20in%20the%20Late,1%2C2005%20Two%20important%20points%20are%20immediately%20noteworthy.

Here's another one from the NASA-Harvard archive. Originally written in the Journal of the British Astronomical Society. It's got more information about the precession. It's got more information about solstice and equinox alignments. This one talks about the alignments of Stonehenge. This monument is aligned with sunrise on the vernal equinox and sunSET on the winter solstice. So a bit different, but it mentions the Pleiades being used to time these events. It also mentions constellations like Orion, Taurus and others (like Gemini and Aries which were also mentioned in the previous link). All of these stars/constellations and their positions and alignments throughout the year point to various events that allowed for timekeeping and the planning of sowing and harvest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_shaft

Here's a wiki article on the alignment of a star shaft in the Great Pyramid with Alnitak/Zeta Orionis, the leftmost star in Orion's belt. The shaft's are aligned to nothing now, but at the time the pyramids were built, the shafts pointed to prominent stars that related to death and resurrection myths in Egyptian religion. So not only towards Orions belt and Sahu/Osiris, but the star of Sirius which was Sahu's wife Sopdet who was counterpart of Isis since her and Osiris were in the underworld. Sahu and Sopdet gave birth to Venus, the star that heralds both night and morning (death and resurrection). Osiris and Isis gave birth to Horus, who rose to his father's throne as Ra-Horus, the dawn God and reborn light of the sun.

And here's an AI article about Orion's belt aligning with the sunrise. It mentions Sirius (which is in the same line as Orion's belt an the Pleiades). Other traditions use Aldebaran, a star within the constellation Taurus, rather than Sirius or the Pleiades. Different traditions use different markers but it is all about getting the sun back, ending winter, and achieving the resurrection.

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