[Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.]

Was forwarded to me in e-mail with 'Fact or Fiction?'

[lyby]

ASTRA ZE NECA

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Saw that same info in a recent AndWeKnow video.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Sobieski; I think that someone is trying to read something into AstraZeneca's name that isn't there. (Folk Etymology.)

https://twitter.com/AstraZeneca/status/1184743596819390464

Astra AB was founded in 1913 in Södertälje, Sweden.'Astra' has its roots in the Greek astron, meaning 'a star'. Zeneca was formed in June 1993 by the demerger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) into a separate company.

"Zeneca" is an invented name, created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or bottom of the alphabet and was phonetically memorable, of no more than three syllables and did not have an offensive meaning in any language.

The merger in 1999 between Swedish pharmaceutical company, Astra AB, and UK-based Zeneca Group plc, was one of the largest-ever European mergers at the time."

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I have always understood Astra in their company name to mean "Star." (College Greek.) I accept their explanation.

(The Kansas State motto is Ad Astra Per Aspera. (Persevere) Through difficulty to the Stars.)

Not really intending to take the vaccination whatever the source.

[peteypupperdoo]

Astrazeneca.. it all fits. I mean astra could mean star. But then you would still have “stars that kill”.

Nothing like putting it right in our faces, eh?

Petey

[ichabod1]

The foundation of the Indian epics is that they are about a time when technology was far beyond what it was when the stories were written down. Here’s a description of the ancient WMDs:

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana (fast aircraft)
hurled a single projectile (astra) charged with the power
of the Universe (nuclear device). An incandescent column of
smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with
all its splendor.
It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic
messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race
of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable.
Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause,
and the birds turned white.
…After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire the soldiers threw
themselves in streams to wash themselves and their
equipment.” — The Mahabharata