In anime, "Subaru" is often the name of a character. in RE:Zero, it is the protagonist. It's the name, in Japanese, of the S̷o̷u̷t̷h̷e̷r̷n̷ C̷r̷o̷s̷s̷ Pleiades and the arrangement of the stars appears as the logo of the car company.
There is a Japanese festival based on the legend of Altair and Vega, Tanabata. (In more than one anime, the Japanese characters, speaking Japanese, call the stars "Altair" and "Vega" rather than their traditional Japanese names.) A legend of lovers who can only see each other once a year.
There was a planetarium show at the science museum in San Jose that pointed out the ancient Greeks had names for constellations that were too far south to be seen from Greece, that they got those names from Babylonian astronomers who could see them.
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RE: Are constellations consistent across cultures?
Date: 2025-01-27 09:01 pm (UTC)In anime, "Subaru" is often the name of a character. in RE:Zero, it is the protagonist. It's the name, in Japanese, of the S̷o̷u̷t̷h̷e̷r̷n̷ C̷r̷o̷s̷s̷ Pleiades and the arrangement of the stars appears as the logo of the car company.
There is a Japanese festival based on the legend of Altair and Vega, Tanabata. (In more than one anime, the Japanese characters, speaking Japanese, call the stars "Altair" and "Vega" rather than their traditional Japanese names.) A legend of lovers who can only see each other once a year.
There was a planetarium show at the science museum in San Jose that pointed out the ancient Greeks had names for constellations that were too far south to be seen from Greece, that they got those names from Babylonian astronomers who could see them.