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George Duke wrote on Sat, Sep 29, 2007 03:38 PM UTC:
Seven(7) chess pieces in our system associate naturally with 5 visible planets and Sun and Moon. Here we re-name the 'beginning' (if there was one) the 'Glowth'. Earlier Sky & Telescope Magazine held a contest in 1990's to re-name 'Big Bang', and in the end there was no entry deemed better and Big Bang is retained. 'Deed' in the first stanza is after Goethe's 'Faust', who comes up with 'In the beginning was the Deed'. Five(5) Platonic solids in stanza two should be self-evident. (Jack Cheiky's 2004 Geodesic Chess grids, for example 272 spaces, are comprised of hexagons and pentagons but they are not regular constructions) Stanza three keys off Voltaire's 'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' In stanza seven, Calaeno, the 7th Pleiad, suggests that 'Turn' (in Chess anyway) is more fundamental than any of 'Word' or 'Deed' or 'Move'. In Greek mythology the 7 Pleiades were daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and each pairs up easily by her history with Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus & Saturn respectively -- which are also days of week in many languages -- and all the sequences now match the Chess pieces too.

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