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Inicio > Historias > THE CHILD AND THE PLEIADES
| THE CHILD AND THE PLEIADES |
2024-10-13 |
Emitido en Onda Cero en agosto de 2023
These days of extreme heat, we are talking a lot about the El Niño phenomenon. The first thing that came to my mind is why it is called El Niño. The reason for this is that Peruvian fishermen observed that some years the waters of the Pacific were very warm, and this increase in temperature coincided approximately with December 25, that is, Christmas, the birth of the Niño Jesús. That is why they referred to the phenomenon as El Niño. On the other hand, let's talk about the Pleiades. The Pleiades are a group of stars that are also known as the Seven Sisters. The first time an object or several celestial objects are seen just before dawn is called the orthoheliac rising. Among the ancient Incas of Peru, the orthoheliac rising of the Pleiades approximately coincided with the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, that is, June 21. A popular belief among them stated that if during the heliac rising of the Pleiades they appeared blurry, there would be drought and the harvests would be poor. Because of this, they would advance or delay the planting of potatoes, which was their largest crop, according to the blurriness they observed in the Pleiades. For a long time, it was considered that this was just a legend, but various scientific works, including one published in the journal Nature in 2000 with Benjamin S. Orlove as the main author, demonstrate that when the El Niño phenomenon occurs, the Andean peaks are covered with a layer of cirrus clouds, which are almost invisible but cause the blurry appearance of the Pleiades. The authors of the work conclude that Andean beliefs were not a legend but were based on real events. In years without El Niño, there were no clouds, and the stars appeared clear, but in years with El Niño, the Pleiades looked blurry, indicating that there would be drought and that the harvests were not real.
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