Talk:Gemini (constellation)

message: Caster in the gemini constilation i think is spelled Kaster kaster is the son of arkantos atlantean hero who died while stopping kronos (Atlantean god of the underworld and father of zeus, posiden, and hades and other gods. He swallowed his children because of the fear they might overthrow him but Rhea managed to recue one child zeus when zeus reached maturity he overthrew kronos and disloged all his siblings.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.142.233.137 (talk) 00:58, August 21, 2007 (UTC) 
No. That guy (and Arkantos) are only in Age of Mythology, not from any real myth.  The Zeus stuff is an actual myth, though. Vultur (talk) 00:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kaster star 

message: It says it's pronounced /ˈgɛmɪnaɪ/ but I've never heard anyone say it with a hard g like that. Shouldn't it be /'dʒɛmɪnaɪ/ ?
217.169.15.38 (talk) 17:13, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Is it possible to say for certain which star is the second brightest in the constellation? This article says it's Castor, and the Castor article does likewise, while the γ article says that the foot is brighter. γ seems to have the numbers on its side (1.93 vs 1.96), but I don't know how exact they are. 85.226.206.229 (talk) 07:38, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The combined magnitude of Castor's components is 1.58, making it brighter than gamma Gem. AstroLynx (talk) 09:02, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, of course, I don't know why I missed that. That complicates the matter somewhat, as both can be said to be the second brightest star, depending on what is meant by "star". But at least I have my explanation now, thanks. 85.226.206.229 (talk) 09:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second brightest star 

message: I noticed that this article talks only about the 
thinking in the western world.  Asian cultures and 
civilizations, especially Indian and Vedic system 
also has zodiacs. These are called raa'si and there 
are twelve of them.  The name used in Sanskrit 
corresponding to Gemini is "mithunam" .  This word 
literally means "couple" as in husband-and-wife.  
The twelve raa'si s cycle through every month 
and are closely associated with naks.atra's (27 in number)  in every lunar month.  The Sanskrit word 
"naks.atra" typically is translated into English as
"star".  I doubt if both the western usage of the 
word "star" and the Vedic usage of the Sanskrit word 
"naks.atra" refer to the same thing.  That is, 
ancient Indian sages could not be blind enough not to 
notice the thousands and millions of bright dots 
in the night sky.
please note that in the Indian system also, Sun enters 
one of the twelve zodiacs in successive months in the 
same sequence, but on the 14th or 15th of the Julian 
calendar months.  To summarize, both Sun and Moon are associated with the zodiacs and in the same order.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.125.173 (talk) 22:18, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  gemini 

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