Taurari da ba su ƙirguwa

Kafin hasken lantarki, sararin sama da dare a ƙasashen Littafi Mai Tsarki yana da duhu ƙwarai. A daren da sama ya yi tsabta, ba wata, ana iya ganin taurari dubu kaɗan da ido kawai, ratsin haske mara ƙarfi na Milky Way kuma ya ratsa sararin sama. An ce wa Ibrahim “ka kuma ƙirga taurari, in har za ka iya ƙirga su” (Farawa 15:5), taurari da yashi kuma suka zama karin magana don adadi da ba ya ƙirguwa (Farawa 22:17). Masanan taurari na Hellenawa sun yi ƙoƙari: jerin taurari na Ptolemy, kimanin 150 B.H., ya lissafa taurari 1,022, aka kuma raba su rukuni shida bisa ga haskensu. Bulus ya lura cewa “Wani tauraro kuwa yakan bambanta da wani a wajen daraja” (1 Korintiyawa 15:41).

Hellenawa sun kira duniyoyin sararin sama (planets) “masu yawo”, domin suna motsi a cikin taurarin da ba sa canja wuri, Yahuda kuma ya yi amfani da kalma ɗaya: “taurari ne masu yawo barkatai” (Yahuda 1:13). Makiyaya suna “tsaron garkunan tumakinsu da dare” (Luka 2:8), matafiya da masu tuƙin jirgin ruwa kuma sukan gane hanya ta wurin taurari. A tafiyar Bulus a teku zuwa Roma, “aka yi kwana da kwanaki ba a ga rana ko taurari ba” (Ayyukan Manzanni 27:20), har masu tuƙin jirgin suka ɓata. Jirgin ruwan da ya ɗauke shi daga baya “yana da siffar tagwayen allolin Kasto da Follus” (Ayyukan Manzanni 28:11): Castor da Pollux, Tagwayen ƙungiyar taurari ta Gemini, waɗanda masu tuƙin jirgin ruwa suke ɗauka masu kāre su ne.