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In the Iliad, Hephaestus forges the Pleiades, Orion, and the Bear onto the shield of Achilles in a picture of the sky. In Job 9, Job names the same three constellations as works God made, describing God's power over the heavens.
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Homer, Iliad 18.485
Classical
480 threefold and glittering, and from it made fast a silver baldric. Five were the layers of the shield itself; and on it he wrought many intricate designs with cunning skill. On it he wrought the earth, on it the heavens, on it the sea, and the unwearied sun, and the moon at the full, 485 and on it all the constellations with which heaven is crowned—the Pleiades, and the Hyades and the mighty Orion, and the Bear, that men also call the Wain, that circles ever in her place, and watches Orion, and alone has no part in the baths of Ocean.
Job 9:9
Hebrew Bible
8 he alone spreads out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. 9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky; 10 he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.
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“... In classical mythology (Apollodorus, 1.4.3–4) the Pleiades were pursued by the hunter Orion until the gods changed them into doves and set them among the stars (R. Graves, Greek Myths [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955] 1:152). The three constellations, the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, were well known to the Greeks also in early times (e.g., Homer, Iliad, 18.486–88), partly no doubt because of their conspicuousness, and partly because their risings and settings marked the seasons (Driver). ...”
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