In the course of this research, I noticed that a lot of the big CGs were based in or around these systems. Like FDev screaming at us "THIS IS A DAMN CLUE!". Considering stations and system names like Persephone, Algol, Aganippe, Bast etc... (you could make an argument for Morai too).
That or there's just so many mythologically named systems that one is bound to see connections where there aren't any. (Shh! -Ed)
Anyway. The heart clues seem to be everywhere so I started looking at Anubis, given that he weighed the heart against a feather in the Underworld's Hall of Judgement (Yep, pretty much a trial) to determine if it was to be fed to Ammut, the ‘Devourer’, and the soul to be cast into darkness.
So, the interesting thing about the Egyptian Underworld systems is they tend to be binary or trinary systems with no planets. Quite dead as it were. I checked out Anubis, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Hathor and Set. (Isis is the exception here, probably because she is a giver of life. The planets are a bit weird by the way, they start off Isis I, Isis II, Isis 1, Isis 2...)
Side note: The idea, initially, was to find combinations of terraformed and ammonia worlds. They seem to always crop up in some form in the other myth systems...
So, Set (a god of storms) was interesting too. His companion stars are Shango and Oya, also storm gods (Nigerian). Oya representing winds, lightning, violent storms, death and rebirth.
Now, brilliantly, it turns out Baʿal was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad, who was depicted often holding a club and thunderbolt while wearing a bull-horned headdress, who in turn is associated with Zeus. They must all be hanging out at the same bars with Thor.
Now, Zeus is closely associated with Amun-Ra, the major Egyptian deity and Berber deity whose major cult center was Thebes. Thebes comes up again very soon.
Consider also that, in myth, Set is employed by Ra on his solar boat (space ship?) to repel the serpent of Chaos, Apep. We'll park this for a second.
This is the tenuous part, inspired by the lunacy of the Lalande 4141 system. I visited system G 41-14, a system eerily familiar to the Egyptian Underworld systems. Except it has a gas giant orbited by Ramon Hub, some Google Fu later, I came across Makhtesh Ramon...
This is a deep rift in the desert in Israel and this is where it gets fun. The crater is 40 km long, 2–10 km wide and 500 meters deep, and is shaped like an elongated heart. Some of the rocks at the bottom of the crater are up to 200 million years old, In the centre of the makhtesh is a hill of hexagonal prisms! Not only that, but the walls are full of ammonites.
'The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams' horns. Pliny the Elder (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun-Ra) was typically depicted wearing ram's horns.'
Back to Thebes, major cult center of Amun-Ra. Cadmus, who was said to have founded Thebes, brought the alphabet to Greece. See 'Cadmean' anagram.
This briefly brings us back to the CGs. For the Aganippe Rush CG, well, there is a New Thebes in the Aganippe system.
'Aganippe "the Mare who destroys mercifully" was an aspect of Demeter [Persephone's mother] ... In this aspect, in her idols (such as one found in Mavrospelya, the Black Cave, in Phigalia) she was portrayed as mare-headed with a mane entwined with Gorgon Snakes.'
'In some of the earliest accounts Demeter was triune goddess representing the Virgin (Kore), the Mother (Pluto "Abundance"), and the Crone ('Persephone the Destroyer'), representing the cycle of birth, life, and death. In later legends, the name Pluto was transferred to the god of the underworld, and elements of Kore and the name Persephone became associated as her daughter.'
From the Jefress treasure hunt (everything is related):
"The clues took pilots to Persephone in the Avalon system, then to Arrhenius Terminal in Bard and finally to the Algol system."
- Where we found LOTS more snakes. A snake ship with snakes on it in a snake system. Remember the serpent of Chaos, Apep, from earlier?
And another stretch: the Staff of Asclepius "conveyed notions of resurrection and healing", Cerberus plague/HART Station. Cerberus makes me think of Hecate in her triplicity. She was associated with borders, city walls, doorways, crossroads and, by extension, with realms outside or beyond the world of the living. It strikes me that the Rift, the Conflux and Hawking's Gap are three places Salome has mentioned to be connected.
The other interesting thing here is that Arrhenius also pops up in the Magec system (the ancient Berber religion's sun god who was kidnapped and locked up and so the world was plunged into Thargoids. Sorry, darkness).
tldr;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18JmieM8SFc
Also, just realised as I wrote this, on the Babylonian front... The Babylonian god Marduk/Marutuk... Elvira Martuuk?)
Speaking of which... In Babylonian astronomy, Alpha Trianguli is listed as UR.BAR.RA "The Wolf", Drew likes wolves - (Autolycus) and Wolf 630.
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