The Hellenist author, a Paulist (proto-Christian), was certainly aware that the 1st or 2nd century Hellenists of Turkey, to whom he was writing these letters, viewed stars as g*ods; and celestial events as evidence demonstrating their myths.
Because the P*leiades star cluster is visible in the Mediterranean night sky from late spring until mid-autumn, coinciding with the sailing season, it is likely, therefore, that these "Seven Stars" were especially important to mariners and related to travel by sea.
All Hellenists understood that the "Seven Stars" referred to the Πλειαδες (P*leiades, "Seven Sisters"), named after their mythical mother, a sea-nymph named Pleione, derived, in turn, from πλειν (plein; to sail). Hellenists believed that these "seven stars," were seven daughters of A*tlas, who was condemned to carry the universe on its shoulders, enabling Ωριων (O*rion, the Great Hunter—of women as well as animals) to continually pursue "his Seven Daughters."
In other words, the writer refers to an O*rion-J*esus conflation who, "having in his hand…" and "he who takes hold of the seven stars."—(the constellation O*rion) chasing the "Seven Stars" (P*leiades) across the night skies.
Thus, the Paulist writer Hellenized the מנורה into the P*leiades mythology and morphed O*rion into J*esus for his Hellenist, proto-Christian congregations in Turkey, displacing, lә-havdil, Ribi Yәhoshua and ha-Sheim. See also NHM note 2.2.1.
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