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 THE GREAT CENTRE 
 
 AN ASTRONOMICAL STUDY. 
 
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1891.92.] 
 
 THU ORKAT CENTRE ; AN ASTRONOMICAt STUDY. 
 
 THE GREAT CENTRE; AN ASTRONOMICAL STUDY. 
 
 By J. C. Hamilton, LL.B. 
 
 (Read 6th February, i8()2 ) 
 
 The paper opened with a short review of the history of astronomy. 
 With reference to the special branch of the subject, it summed up the 
 teachings of Pythagoras, as to harmony in the movement of the spheres, 
 and the central fire of Philolaus, around which the heavenly bodies were 
 supposed to perform a circling dance. Farthest off were the fixed stars, 
 then in order the five planets the moon and the earth. 
 
 The beautiful theory of the harmony of the spheres was not lo^t sight 
 of by our great poet, as is seen in the famous dialogue between Lorenzo 
 and Jessica, (Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Sc. L) 
 
 Reference was made to the theory of the Great Centre by other poets, 
 such as Edgar A. Poe, in " Eureka " ; and Addison, calling it the 
 " Heaven of Heavens," in No. 580 of the Spectator ; Tennyson's last 
 verse of " In Mcmoriam"; and Dryden's lines : 
 
 " This place ; the highest mansion of the sky 
 I'll call the Palace of the Ueity." 
 
 The "Mystery of the Seven Stars" was then discussed. As satellites 
 revolve around planets and planets around suns, so the solar system moves 
 around a grand centre. This holds good in regard to the constellations 
 and known systems of the universe in an inconceivabl) magnificent 
 extent. What that centre is may be asked. It was shown that strange 
 reference to the Pleiades was made by Job ; that the priests of Belus 
 noted their rising and setting two thousand years before Christ, and 
 astronomers point to this region as one of amazing majesty. The Greeks 
 called them Pleiades and said they were the seven daughters of Atlas 
 and Pleione, of whom all but one, Merope, were united to immort.il gods 
 and placed in heaven after death. Their names are Alcyon^, MeroptJ, 
 Maia, Electra, Taygcta, Steropci and Celeno. The Greek name for the 
 group has its origin ascribed sometimes to the word signifying to sail, as 
 their rising was looked for by the sailors of the Meditenanean ; but 
 another derivation makes them the heavenly doves. 
 
 Our Mohawks have a legend as to the seven stars in which seven 
 brothers who unfortunately fell in love with the same fair squaw, were 
 translated to heaven on her untimely death. "^ The Chippewas of Lake 
 
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 [Vol. III. 
 
 Superior, with less romance, called the Pleiades Madodissonox the sweat- 
 ing stones, referring to the hot stones arranged in a group in their vapour 
 baths. 
 
 Only six Pleii\des are usually seen, though as many as sixteen have 
 been made out by keen observers without artificial aid (Mr. A. M. 
 Clarke's article on The Pleiades, in Nature, A^n\ 15, 1886, Vol. 33. p. 
 561.) Mipparchus mentions the possibility of discovering a seventh 
 member of the group, Ovid too, " Quae septem dici, Si;x tamen esse 
 solent." 
 
 The story of the " Lost Pleiad " is immeasurably antique and cosmo- 
 politan as a myth or a tradition. The Pleiades are included in the 
 great constellation of the Bull. 
 
 They are with us a winter constellation. Their position is best found 
 by following with the eye the line made by the belt of Orion northward 
 past Aldcberan and the Hyades. 
 
 Alcyone is of the third magnitude, but was not 1750 years ajj^o the 
 lucida of the collection. The leading place was first assigned to Alcyone 
 by Tycho Brahe in the sixteenth century. Galileo detected nearly fifty 
 stars in the Pleiades. M. C. Wolf, in 1875, at Paris, made a chart which 
 included stars to the fourteenth magnitude to the number of six hundred 
 and twenty-five, contained in a rectangle I35'X90,' in which Alcyone^ 
 occupies a nearly central position. By the photographic object glass, 
 stars ol the Pleiades down to the seventeentii magnitude have been 
 deciphered, and more than one thousand four hundred have been placed 
 on the photographic retina. X 
 
 The Pleiades are immensely far off. None of them has any sensible 
 parallax, nor are we informed of their intrinsic lustre, mutual distance or 
 gravitating mass. Recent investigations of the structure of the Pleiades 
 group shew a surprising miniature sidereal system, the richness and variety 
 of which bewilder theoretical conceptions, and recall as anamolous the 
 accumulated wonders of the MegalLinic clouds. Groups are collected 
 within the main groups systems revolve apart, the subordination of which 
 to the laws of a gener.il federative union, leaves their internal liberty of 
 movement unshackled 
 
 The furthest of the suns forming the group are seventy-one times as 
 distant from us as from the centre of their own system, consequently 
 Alcyoi.v.' blazes upon them with five thousand times the brilliancy of 
 Sirius. " It would seem," says Mr. Clark, "a star rather than a sun." 
 
 K learned Canadian, of eminent name and lineage, Mr. R. G. Halibur- 
 
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18!) 1-92.] 
 
 THK OKHAT CKNTKK ; AN ASTRONOMICAL STUDY. 
 
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 ton, Q.C., F.R.G.S , now residing abroad, has made a study of primitive 
 tr.iditiuns as to the Pleiades. Me has discovered a yearly calendar 
 regulated by these .stars. He has become known in connection with the 
 so-called " Pleiades Year." A work published on the Continent " Die 
 Pleiaden," has been dedicated to him as the pioneer in this interesting 
 field of research, and Mr. Piazzi Smith, late Astronomer Royal of Scot- 
 land, borrowed largely from Mr. Haliburton in his book on the Great 
 Pyramid. 
 
 Mr. Haliburton has long been promising to embody the result of his 
 investigations in book shape. Failing this, I am, through correspondence 
 and reference to his published essays, able to give some, of the facts and 
 observations. And .so, without too much anticipating the promised story, 
 which we will hail with pleasure, I will cull from the rich supply he lays 
 before us. 
 
 In his pamphlet entitled "New Materials for the History of Man, 
 1863," Mr. Haliburton shows that the Festival of the Dead was, in ancient 
 times, regulated by the Pleiades. The memory of the Deluge was by 
 Ihe Mexicans, the Egyptians and the Jews associated with the same time 
 of the year — the middle of October. Among the Aztecs, as well as the 
 Egyptians, the Deluge was commemorated at the beginning of the year of 
 the Pleiades, that is when that constellation culminated at midnight 
 The Deluge and time were considered .synonymous by the ancients. In 
 Europe the last day of October and first and second of November are 
 designated as the festivals of All Hallotuecn, All Souls and All Saints. 
 They are connected with the commemorations known amongst all nations 
 as the Festival of the Dead or the Feast of Ancestors, and this reminds 
 us of the Voyage of Ulysses to the Gardens of Alkynoos, the abodes of 
 the dead. . . . The Pleiades long retained their nome Hesperides. 
 Stars of the Evening, even when they had ceased to regulate the year, 
 when their pleasant influences had been forgotten. They were also by 
 the Latins called Vergiliae or harbingers of the spring ; and by the 
 Hebrews Chima/i, or the Cluster or group of Stars. The Pleiades gain 
 twenty-eight days on the tropical year in every two thousand years. 
 Hence the Pleiades thac now culminate at midnight on 17th November, 
 did so in October two thou.sand years ago. The Bull constellation in- 
 cluding the Alcyonic group, bore the name Tar, Ataur and Attyr in 
 Egypt. Hence the Latin Taurus. The year of the Tar and stars of 
 Attaur, have left their impress on the very mountains of Great Britain. 
 Many a hill is known as a Tor. Our ancestors raised the " Seven 
 Altars" on these hills to the stars of the Tar. and to this day the pleasant 
 influence of the Pleiades, commemorated by Job and celebrated by 
 
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 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTK. 
 
 [Vol. tit. 
 
 Australian savages, is still lingering in Britain under the popular tradi- 
 tions as to the good King Arthur. It is worthy of note that the iiame of 
 this king meant in Egypt a hill, (Bunsen's Egypt, I., 465.) 
 
 The era when the Pleiades left their impress on the calendars and 
 traditions of nations, must, says Haliburton, in Nature, Vol. 25. 100, be 
 very remote, so much so that such researches are like investigations into 
 the fossils that tell of organisms that lived in a world and breathed an 
 atmosphere different from our own. He found a tradition on the African 
 Gold Coast, that the Pleiades are young women, six of whom are very 
 beautiful, but the seventh is so plain that she conceals herself from sight. 
 
 Some tribes of the Australians dance in honour of the Pleiades, 
 because " they are good to the black fellows." The negroes too, say 
 " these stars are good to the darkies." The natives of both North and 
 South America regard the Pleiades as beneficent stars, and dance in 
 their honour. M. Madler, of Dorpat, in 1846 developed the theory that 
 Alcyon^, the lucida of the cluster, is the centre of gravity of the solar 
 system, the luminous hinge around which our sun and the planets move 
 through space. The theory had been mooted by Wright in 1750, and 
 Lucretius had some fanciful notion as to our system revolving around a 
 common centre : Lib. i, de rerum Natura. " The theory of Madler, that 
 Alcyon^, the brightest of the group is the central sun of the universe is 
 most interesting," says Haliburton, on account of the fact that such was 
 the actual belief of early ages. " The ancients in very remote ages 
 undoubtedly believed that it was the centre of the universe, and that 
 Paradise the primeval home of our race and the abode of the Deity, and 
 of the spirits of the dead, was in the Pleiades, traces of which ideas we 
 even find among savages." 
 
 With the Pleiades two sacred birds were connected. In Samoa there 
 is a sacred bird called Manu-lii, the bird of the Pleiades. The Hindoos 
 believed that Brahma came from an egg. The Greeks had similar 
 traditions ; Castor and Pollux snrang from an egg. So also Semiramis^ 
 and she was brooded over by a peliad or dove. 
 
 From Britain to Japan these stars arc populariy known as the " Hen 
 and Her Chickens," and the " Hen-Coop." In Mexico the Kingfi.sher was 
 a sacred bird ; so with the Greeks it was called the Halcyon, the bird of 
 Alcyon^ or Paradise ; and the Halcyon days were the summer days at 
 the end of autumn, which we should now render heavenly days. Mr 
 Haliburton found that among the Brahmins of Tyroloc, the name of 
 November was Kartica, the month of the Pleiades. In Polynesia there 
 was a year regulated by the rising of the Pleiades at the sunset, and their 
 
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 THE ORKAT CBVTRE ; AN AHTHONOMIOAl, StUDY. 
 
 bcinti visible all nif^ht lon^f. He also found a three days' feast observed 
 in Australia in honour of the IMeiades, and traces of the primitive 
 Pleiades calendar he has discovered existing all over the world. These 
 stars arc apparently six in number yet among civilized and savage races 
 in Kurope, in India, China, Japan, Africa and America this diminutive 
 group is not merely regarded as seven stars, but what is more surprising, 
 as '• The Seven Stars," though the far brighter stars of the Great Bear 
 might seem to deserve the title. In the F"east of Tabernacles, the Berber 
 tribes build their temporary tents with a hole at the top, in order that the 
 young men being instructed, may see the Pleiades passing overhead. 
 rhe'Jews were found to have the same custom. " We can now under- 
 stand," says Haliburton, "the vestiges in Kgypt of a popular belief that 
 the Pleiades are in some way connected with the Great Pyramid, the. 
 existence of which was observed with feelings of surprise by Prof 
 Piazzi Smith." 
 
 Colonel Vyse is credited with noticing this phenomenon when making 
 rcsciiiLlies in Kgypt some years since. Six of the pyramids at Gizeh 
 have openings facing north, leading to straight passages which descend 
 at inclinations of from 26° to 28", the direction being parallel to the 
 meridian. A person standing at the bottom and looking up, would have 
 seen the Pleiades passing overhead when the Great Pyramid was built in 
 2170 B.C. Prof. P. Smith suggests that its seven chambers commemo- 
 rated the seven Pleiades. 
 
 The Berbers of Morocco had a name for Alcyon^ which was given 
 because they said Paradise is there, and the Pleiades are the centre of all 
 things. In Sahara are ancient mosques and temples where the year is 
 still regulated thus, there being a tube from the top of the building, small 
 above and larger below, through which the .southing of these stars is 
 observed. 
 
 " I am persuaded," says Haliburton, " that the day is coming when the 
 learned will admit that these stars are the 'Central Sun' of the religious 
 calendars, myths, traditions and symbolism of early ages, an era however 
 so marvellously remote that investigations respecting it bear the same 
 relation to the study of anthropology and to the science of religion, that 
 paleontology does lo natural history." 
 
 The essayist said in concluding: We have now reached as far in our en- 
 quiry as time, will permit. It is admitted that it is still one of theory and 
 speculation in advance of demonstrative and practical astronomy. Among 
 objections to the selection of Alcyone as Stellar Queen, may be that she 
 is not of first astronomical rank, but of the third magnitude, while all the 
 
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 otlurs of the group aic of lesser apparent proportions. Some may 
 suRfjest the ^reat Aldebcnin or Sirius the immense central sun, or perhaps 
 Arcturus, with a diameter exceeciin<:[ ninety millions of miles. Could 
 he bo placed between our orb and the sun, he would fill nearly all the 
 intervening space. Yet as we have sc n, the old Chaldeans, the Egypt- 
 ians, the iierbers of Morocco, savage myths anil fjlk lore, Job and the 
 poets point to the same great centre. The inference is boldly drawn 
 that a spot so comparatively small and insignificant as our planet, or 
 even the solar system cimti pressed into one great mass, cannot with 
 reason be regarded f.s the future place of bliss. If in that are to be 
 gathered the mighty intelligences and the innumerable redeemed of 
 all ages, the argument is advanced that Alcyon*^, the great lucida of the 
 group, the pliysical centre of the universe, may be also its spiritual and 
 divine centre. 
 
 This, as we have seen, has some weight with men of .science, but is 
 mainly found .s yet in poetic musings. Such may be included in the 
 Laureate's conception of 
 
 "(^mc fiir off divine event, 
 
 i () which the whole creation moves." 
 
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 The following lines were suggested by a discussion of interest which 
 tock place in the columns of the Nczu York Observer on the Locality of 
 Hcuven. They were published in that paper some years ago : 
 
 " M.iy (Jixl forgive the child of dust, 
 Who seeks to know, wliere faitii shouiii trust." 
 
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 ALCYONE. 
 
 here is the star, Wcyone 
 
 \\ nere is uie siiii, Mcyoiier 
 Mark where (Jrion points the way ; 
 I'iiul wiierc the I'lciads ^rently sway. 
 All worlds, and systems, as they roll, 
 Where dwells the Klcmental soul, 
 Where ni^;hts liave ceased and lif,ht to bless 
 Beams from the .Sun of Kighteousness ; 
 
 'Ihere is the star Alcyone I 
 
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 1891-92.] THE GREAT CENTRE ; AN ASTRONOMICAL STUDY. 
 
 Who point us to Alcyon^ ? 
 The leader who on Pisg.ih stood, 
 And saw fair lands beyond the ilood, 
 Tbey who, in ancient, classic years, 
 Proclaimed the harmony of sjiheres, 
 '' 'Ihe prophet's word, the poet's eye, 
 
 The flowers below, the stars on high, 
 
 All point us to /Mcyone. 
 
 Who reigns in far Alcyone ? 
 Who rules the waves and thunder loud. 
 Who led m pillar and in cloud. 
 Who bids the starry systems burn, 
 The comets wIiclI, and planets turn, 
 Whose word made light, whose arm is might 
 Archangels bow when in Mis sight : 
 
 He reigns in great Alcyone. 
 
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 But while thy towers, Alcyone, 
 With jealous guard Jehovah keeps, 
 The frailest fly, or thing that creeps 
 On dungeon wall, can never fall, 
 Unless our Heavenly Father call ; 
 He this, then, our sustaining trust. 
 And, though in death laid dust to dust, 
 
 These eyes shall see Alcyone. 
 
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 What learn they in Alcyone ? 
 Of Him to whom wise men from far 
 Came, guided by the glorious star ; 
 They find high r.ansions where is room 
 For all who through the Saviour come ; 
 On hidden way and darkened page. 
 Here unreveakd to saint and sage, 
 
 Thy light shall shine, Alcyone. 
 
 In bowers of blest Alcyone, 
 ISright choirs will sing, in harmony, 
 The stor of the One in Three, 
 '1 he Three in One, the great /Eon, 
 I he Pure who did for sins atone, 
 'l"he blind shall sec, the dumb make known 
 Their joy and rapture round the tluone 
 
 Of Him who rules Alcyone. 
 
 Who now possess Alcyone ? 
 All they who for Emmanuel's fame, 
 1 lave borne the cross, the toil, the shame ; 
 /Ml they who, in tlie precious fountain, 
 
ALCYONE. 
 
 Have washed their robes from every st.iin ; 
 All they who've climbed the glorious mountain, 
 Found there the King who once was slain, 
 And sought, with Him, Alcyone. 
 
 When shall we reach Alcyone ? 
 When the last trumpet loud shall call, 
 The just shall rise, the ungodly fall ; 
 When earth and seas shall roll in flame, 
 When His high name, with glad acclaim, 
 Re-echoes loud through all the spheres, 
 And His advancing car appears. 
 
 Then may we reach Alcyone ! 
 
 As falls eclipse, Alcyone, 
 On mariners o'er ocean tossed, 
 So, when thy heavenly light is lost. 
 Dark fear and doubt tempestuous roll, 
 And threaten to engulf my soul ; 
 But, as I cry, comes One to save, 
 He breaks the cloud, He walks the wave. 
 
 And Jeads me to Alcyon^. 
 
 In thy bright realms, Alcyone, 
 No tempest's jar, no sound of war. 
 Nor funeral bell our peace will mar ; 
 Those whom, while here, we hold most dear, 
 We'll meet — no parting hour to feiir ; 
 In thee shall faith be verified, 
 In thee Clod's love be magnified, 
 
 riome of true bliss, Alcyone. 
 
 Alcyone ! Alcyone ! 
 While here imprisoned far from iliei-, 
 My soul pants, longing to be free ; 
 O may a cheering heavenly ray, 
 Change fear to joy, change gloom to da\ , 
 ■| ill, from this meltinj; orb, 1 spring, 
 And, jjassing through thy bright gates, sing 
 
 God's praises in Alcyone. J_ -^ 9f~~^ 
 
 Toronto.