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To: MtnClimber; Red Badger; Hebrews 11:6
Sweet. Looks like a red "hat" (circumflex) over that tree.

The SAR and the Milky Way:

Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince (sar) hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

"In Germany the modern Milch Strasse is the translation of our best-known title; while it has long been, and popularly is even now, Jakobs Strasse and Jakobs Weg, Jacob’s Road; as the Belt of Orion is his Staff lying alongside the road. And it has been still further associated with that patriarch as his Ladder."

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Galaxy*.html

the Belt of Orion is his Staff lying alongside the road...

Which is another funny thing about MIB, of Orion's Belt being "just these three stars", because in Norse mythology they represented Frigg's spinning wheel, distaff.

Spinning all the clouds (stars) in the galaxy.

As an adjective, the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a family. The corresponding term for the male side of a family is the "spear" side.

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

I think it's worth mentioning because of how it all weaves together, with Rachel "the mother of all Israel" buried alongside the road.

5 posted on 11/11/2023 2:03:18 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel; Red Badger; MtnClimber
Astronomically, Orion's Belt received God's special (Northern Hemisphere-only) mention in Job 38, as one of His many foils in humbling and belittling Job and his pompous entourage:

“Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades?
Can you loose the cords of Orion?"

Both the Pleiades Cluster and Orion's cord, or belt, appear from earth to be gravitationally bound, and God here makes the fact-claim that indeed they are--four millennia ago, long before refracting or reflecting or space telescopes were even a gleam in Galileo's eye.

Of course, modern telescopes confirmed God's claim. He still scores 100%.

6 posted on 11/11/2023 2:40:40 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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