Por enquanto a história vai em inglês mesmo, de acordo com a legenda que eu acompanho. Mas ainda volto aqui e faço uma tradução. And it goes like this:
"But there was one
particularly gorgeous group of stars, known to the Ancient Greeks and to us
today as the Pleiades, a star cluster formed about 100 million years ago. Each
of them is some 40 times brighter than our Sun. And Alcyone, the most luminous,
outshines our Sun 1,000 times. For ages the Pleiades have been used as an eye
test for people all over the world. If you could see at least six of them, you
were considered normal. If you saw more then seven, you were an ideal candidate
for a warrior or scout. Among the Ancient Celts and Druids of the British
Isles, the Pleiades were believed to have a haunting significance. On the night
of the year that they reach the highest point in the sky at midnight, the
spirits of the dead were thought to wander the Earth. This is believed to be
the origin of the holiday once known as Samhain, now called Halloween. All over
the Earth, our ancestors told wonderful stories to explain how the Pleiades
came to be in the sky. For the Kiowa people of North America, it happened something
like this. Long, long ago, some young women snuck away from their campsite to
dance freely beneath the stars. Some bears appeared and they ran to the top of
a small rock, screaming “rock, take pity on us!” The rock heard their cries and
grew taller. Until it became what is today known as the Devil’s Tower. The
maidens were transformed into the stars of the Pleiades, which may be seen
hanging above the tower in midwinter. The Ancient Greeks also saw those seven
jewels as seven maidens, the seven daughters of Atlas, pursued not by bears,
but by Orion the hunter, who spied them when he was out walking one day. Orion
became mad with desire. For seven years, he chased them relentelessly.
Exhausted, they prayed to Zeus for deliverance. Zeus, the king of the gods,
felt sorry for them, and transformed those seven maidens into the Pleiades. But
the gods are, if anything, capricious. When Orion was killed by the sting of a
scorpion, Zeus placed him in the sky where he could resume his pursuit of the
seven gorgeous sisters."
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