Antares Star/ December 2020 from Streichfett Sessions
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Streichfett Sessions Installment 2 December 2020
Antares appears as a single star when viewed with the naked eye, but it is actually a binary star, with it’s two components called a Scorpii A and a Scorpii B. The brighter of the two is the red supergiant, while the fainter is a hot main sequence star of magnitude 5.5. In the Babylonian star catalogues dating from at least 1100 BCE, Antares was called GABA GIR.TAB, "the Breast of the Scorpion". In MUL.PIN which dates between 1100 and 700 BC, it is one of the stars of Ea in the southern sky and denotes the breast of the Scorpion goddess Ishhara. In ancient Egypt, Antares represented the scorpion goddess Serket (and was the symbol of Isis in the pyramidal ceremonies).It was called tms n hntt "the red one of the prow". In Persia Antares was known as Satevis, one of the four "royal stars". In India, it with σ Scorpii and τ Scorpii were Jyeshthā (the eldest or biggest, probably attributing to its huge size), one of the nakshatra (Hindu lunar mansions).
The Māori people of New Zealand call Antares Rēhua, and regard it as the chief of all the stars. -wikipedia
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As we head out of 2020 and into whatever 2021 brings us, wherever we all are on this planet, Alchymie sends out the second installment of the ten track album The Streichfett Sessions for December 2020. For thousands of years people from ancient civilizations and modern alike have looked at the same skies, (relative of course to earth locations)….but the same cosmos above and surrounding our shared planet. Whole civilizations have come and gone in the blink of the Cosmos’ eye. The planets and star constellations have different names, differing mythologies, and historical cultural contexts for various cultures around the world and throughout history. Yet, they remain….the same point at which we all look upon or gaze at in wonder, via high powered telescope or the naked eye in our backyards. Regardless of race, ethnicity, political affiliation, religious beliefs, or socio-economic situation our eyes look upon the same stars, nebulas, comets, moon and sun. If we see those galactic mentors as celestial wonders, then look up yet again…they are the same your neighbor sees… and we can then ask, why really do we see each other on this planet as separate?
The Cosmos is ever-changing but at a galactic speed and paradigm that we are unable to feel within our quick spark of time here, but that movement is still there; regardless of Netflix, cyber Monday, pandemics, lockdowns, or herd immunity, and yes,… even regardless of “to vaccinate or not to vaccinate”. The Cosmos will shake off the energy of this human era at its galactic subtle speed.
Maybe we will feel it if we stop and look up together into our shared skies, find Antares Star, watch and listen to the cosmos gently nudging us back into the galactic rhythm. Our time here is but a blink, if even that, in Cosmic time.
2021 will be our name for it, the Cosmos will have no name or separation….just oneness.
Piano, Streichfett Alchymie
Mixed & Mastered Laila Kalantari
Recorded August 2020
Enjoy, Antares Star.