y"So why are the Pleiades called the Seven Sisters, when only six stars can be seen with the eye? In fact, the number of stars you can see within the Pleiades cluster, using just your eye, varies depending on your own eyesight, local atmospheric transparency and light pollution levels. Some people simply see fainter stars than others. It’s possible that early skywatchers, whose skies were darker and clearer than our modern skies, more often saw more than six stars here. Even today, people with exceptional vision see seven, eight or more stars in the Pleiades with the unaided eye."
Re. "Eleusinian Mysteries, where snake venom was likely used as a hallucinogen"
Or maybe it was LSD. From wikipedia -
In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), authored by Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, it was proposed that the special potion "kykeon", a pivotal component of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot (Claviceps spp.).
Do you think there’s any connection between the Caduceus and Asclepius’ Rod and Samudra Manthan (churning of the ocean)? Both seem to be related to serpents and rejuvenation/immortality
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.
There seem to be an alternative explanation for why everyone were seeing seven and not six sisters: https://earthsky.org/space/myth-and-science-of-pleiades-star-cluster/
y"So why are the Pleiades called the Seven Sisters, when only six stars can be seen with the eye? In fact, the number of stars you can see within the Pleiades cluster, using just your eye, varies depending on your own eyesight, local atmospheric transparency and light pollution levels. Some people simply see fainter stars than others. It’s possible that early skywatchers, whose skies were darker and clearer than our modern skies, more often saw more than six stars here. Even today, people with exceptional vision see seven, eight or more stars in the Pleiades with the unaided eye."
Re. "Eleusinian Mysteries, where snake venom was likely used as a hallucinogen"
Or maybe it was LSD. From wikipedia -
In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), authored by Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, it was proposed that the special potion "kykeon", a pivotal component of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot (Claviceps spp.).
Do you think there’s any connection between the Caduceus and Asclepius’ Rod and Samudra Manthan (churning of the ocean)? Both seem to be related to serpents and rejuvenation/immortality
I've only been following for around a year or maybe a couple of months, have you also checked out the Sahmeran myth?