THE PLEIAD-MONTH 



FROM the Persian shepherd to the shepherd 

 on the hills of Argyll in a word, from the 

 remote East to the remote West November 

 is known, in kindred phrase, as the Pleiad- 

 Month. 



What a world of legend, what a greater 

 world of poetry and old romance, centres in 

 this little group of stars. * The meeting-place 

 in the skies of mythology and science,' as 

 they have been called by one of our chief 

 astronomers. From time immemorial this 

 remote starry cluster has been associated with 

 festivals and solemnities, with auguries and 

 destinies. On November 17, the day of the 

 midnight culmination of the Pleiades, the great 

 Festival of I sis was begun at Busiris : in ancient 

 Persia, on that day, no petition was presented 

 in vain to the King of Kings : and on the first 

 of the month the midnight rites of our own 

 ancestral Druids were connected with the 



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