We're following in the footsteps of ancient Celts.
Thousands of years ago they began making the most
of a cosmic opportunity that's available to us
only one night in the 365 nights of our
yearly orbit around the Sun.
Halloween means "holy evening" because of
what we can see--and what we can do!--
as we're traveling through the
October 31 point in our
orbital journey.
Ancient Celts--along with Hawaiians, Japanese, Zuni
and others--tell us they came to Earth from
a cluster of stars that we call the Seven Sisters.
While most people can see only five or six stars
in this group, everyone sees that it
looks like a very tiny dipper.
Greeks call this cluster the Pleiades (PLEE-uh-deez),
while the Japanese name for it is Subaru.
(It's the Subaru car logo.)
In Siberia the Altai people derived their name for the
Great Spirit from their word for the Pleiades.
Can you imagine what ancient Celts
saw--and did--on October 31?
You can if you visualize yourself in space,
looking down on our planet Earth...