Ba1.5
Perhaps the best way to describe what happens at the summer soltice
is to recall experience from the Mnajdra
Temple:
... Then I become aware of ... a presence
- a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has
appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it
lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is
there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to
be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it
seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as
it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on -
instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As
Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a
poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft',
narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top,
running up the left hand side of the solstice stone,
surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant
later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a
few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is
complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance -
this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian
hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not
to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of
that word but rather as a reference to one of the
supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the
universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple,
it glows, as though lit by inner fire ...
...
Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to
die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation
the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At
midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore
be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be
transported into a new body ...
... Men's spirits were thought to dwell
in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has
been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition
fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul.
Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the
matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and
then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate
of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the
constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and
still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of
Cancer' means Gemini ...
So my suggestion is that the missing central part of Ba1-21
was a drilled hole intended for the
wooden peg on which the flat tablet would hang on the wall.
Papa. 1.
Underground rock; motionless; rocky sea bottom; large flat
stone; figuratively: tagata papa important man,
author of great works. 2. Wooden plank currently used much
like a surf-board in the sport called garu; it was
formerly called papa gaatu mo te garu, because it was
made from dry totora leaves woven into the shape of a
plank. 3. To line up things side by side on a flat surface,
for instance, to line up fish on top of a flat stone.
Vanaga. Shoulderblade. Papapapa, a chill, to shiver,
to tremble, to shudder. Churchill. ...
The appellation papa indicated a flat horizontal
plain. In South America they said Pampas for the such
surfaces ...
... Both the C and the B tablets have a hole drilled through
the wood, possibly for hanging the tablet on the wall, but
surely also for giving an important sign .
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C |
B |
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Ba1-21 → 11 *
11 |
Ba1-22 |
Ba1-23 |
Ba1-24 |
Ba1-25 |
OCT 21 |
22 |
23 (296) |
24 |
25 |
KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii,
κ Lyrae (277.5),
TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis
(277.7),
SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis
(277.8),
KWEI SHE = χ Draconis
(277.9) |
φ
Oct. (278.1),
KAUS AUSTRALIS =
ε
Sagittarii
(278.3),
ξ
Pavonis (278.4),
AL ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) =
μ
Lyrae
(278.6)
*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4 |
KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii
(279.3) |
ν
Pavonis (280.4),
κ
Cor. Austr.
(280.9)
*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4 |
Abhijit-22 (Victorious)
θ
Cor. Austr.
(281.0),
VEGA = α Lyrae
(281.8) |
Christmas Eve |
Dec 25 |
26 (360) |
27 |
28 |
... That the
Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all
also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is
well known, and the Christian Church first fixed
the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same
season, in the year A.D. 273 [→ 3 * 91]. St.
Chrysostom, a century later, said that the
intention was that 'while the heathen were
busied with their profane rites the Christians
might perform their holy ones without
disturbance', but justified the date as suitable
for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness' ... |
CLOSE
TO THE FULL MOON: |
APRIL 21
(111) |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 (460 / 4) |
Well-22 (Tapir) /
Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of
the Twins)
δ
Columbae (95.2),
TEJAT POSTERIOR =
μ
Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) =
β
Canis Majoris (95.4),
CANOPUS (Canopy) =
α
Carinae
(95.6),
ε
Monocerotis (95.7),
ψ1
Aurigae (95.9)
*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4 |
No star listed (96) |
β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) |
No star listed (98) |
ν Puppis (99.2),
ψ3
Aurigae (99.4),
ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)
*58.0 = *99.4 - *41.4
GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.) |
St John's
Day´(175) |
June 25 |
26 (354 / 2) |
27 |
28 |
... Midsummer
is the flowering season of the oak, which is the
tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash
is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its
roots are believed to extend as deep underground
as its branches rise in the air - Virgil
mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a
god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the
Underworld ... The month, which takes its name
from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th
and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's
Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king
was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year
was divided into two halves with the second half
beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day
wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour
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Ba1-26 |
Ba1-27 |
Ba1-28 |
Ba1-29 |
Ba1-30 |
OCT 26 |
27 (300) |
28 |
29 |
30 |
No star listed (282) |
ζ
Pavonis (283.4),
λ
Cor. Austr. (283.6),
DOUBLE DOUBLE =
ε
Lyrae
(283.7),
ζ
Lyrae (283.8)
*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4 |
South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)
Φ
Sagittarii
(284.0),
μ
Cor. Austr. (284.6),
η
Cor. Austr.,
θ
Pavonis (284.8) |
SHELIAK (Tortoise) =
β
Lyrae,
ν
Lyrae (285.1),
ο Draconis (285.5).
λ
Pavonis (285.7)
ATLAS
(27 Tauri) |
χ
Oct. (286.0),
AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) =
ν
Sagittarii
(286.2),
υ
Draconis (286.4),
δ
Lyrae (286.3),
κ
Pavonis (286.5),
ALYA (Fat Tail) =
θ
Serpentis
(286.6)
*245.0 = *286.4 - *41.4 |
Dec 29 |
30 (364) |
31 |
Jan 1
(366) |
2 |
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CLOSE TO
THE FULL MOON: |
APRIL 26 |
27 |
28 (118) |
29 |
30 (120) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5),
MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Gemini
(100.7) |
SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris
(101.2),
ψ5 Aurigae (101.4),
ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)
*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4 |
τ
Puppis (102.2),
ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)
*61.0 = *102.4 - *41.4 |
Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the
Shepherd)
θ
Gemini (103.0),
ψ8
Aurigae (103.2),
ALHENA =
γ
Gemini
(103.8),
ψ9
Aurigae (103.9) |
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris
(104.8) |
June 29 |
30 (181) |
July 1
(118 + 64) |
2 |
3 |
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But the balance of gravitation was not at the central glyph in line Ba1,
because this line carries not 20 + 1 + 20 = 41 but 6 more
glyphs:
a1 |
47 |
47 |
b1 |
31 |
31 |
a2 |
40 |
87 |
b2 |
47 |
78 |
a3 |
37 |
124 |
b3 |
43 |
121 |
a4 |
40 |
164 |
b4 |
42 |
163 |
a5 |
43 |
207 |
b5 |
40 |
203 |
a6 |
44 |
251 |
b6 |
40 |
243 |
a7 |
43 |
294 |
b7 |
41 |
284 |
a8 |
46 |
340 |
b8 |
42 |
326 |
a9 |
49 |
389 |
b9 |
50 |
376 |
a10 |
32 |
421 |
b10 |
42 |
418 |
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b11 |
43 |
461 |
b12 |
45 |
506 |
sum |
421 |
sum |
506 |
At the time of the Bull a new month was beginning 10
days after APRIL 21 (111):
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Ba1-31 |
Ba1-32 |
MAY 1 (121
→ Beltane) |
2 |
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Ba1-33 |
Ba1-34 |
MAY 3 |
4 |
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Ba1-35 |
Ba1-36 |
MAY 5 |
6 |
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Ba1-37 |
Ba1-38 |
MAY 7 |
8 (128) |
At Ba1-33 we can see the projecting member in front,
which is then drowned by rain (ua) in the
following glyph.
Kapa. Mgv.: a song for the dead, chant. Mq.:
kapa, a heathen song. Mgv.: aka-kapakapa,
an eager desire balked by timidity. Ta.: apaapa,
to flutter the wings. To.: kabakaba, id. Ma.:
kapakapa, to flutter. Churchill. Tu.:
Kapakapa, portion, particle. Ta.: apaapaa,
fragment, bit, chip. Churchill. In Polynesia gliding
flight is expressed by lele, flight on
flapping wing by kapa. In Nuclear Polynesia
kapa does not pass into the wing sense except
through the aid of a composition member kau.
In Samoan 'au we find this to mean a stalk, a
handle; in reference to the body its sense as that
of some projecting member is exhibited in
'aualuma (the 'au in front) as a very
delicate euphemism for the penis. So 'apa'au
would mean literally the projecting member that
flaps. Churchill 2.
... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the
two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a
fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in
the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in
the form of a baboon), and together they found all
of Osiris save his genital member, which had been
swallowed by a fish ...
...Then the big Fish did swallow
him, and he had done acts worthy of blame. Had it
not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah, He
would certainly have remained inside the Fish till
the Day of Resurrection. - Qur'an, chapter 37
(As-Saaffat), verse 139–144. But We cast him forth
on the naked shore in a state of sickness, And We
caused to grow, over him, a spreading plant of the
gourd kind. And We sent him (on a mission) to a
hundred thousand (men) or more. And they believed;
so We permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a
while. - Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse
145–148 ...
At Ba1-35 (→ 365 + 135
= 500) the protruding member is
missing, presumably because he was swallowed - we can
guess from the long beak and the protruding belly.
At Ba1-36 (→ day 136 =
May 16 at heliacal Alcyone) the 'egg' has been broken (koti)
and a new one (without penis) has emerged (Ba1-37).
... Ravens, unlike geese, loons
and many other birds, do not in fact have penises -
a fact recorded and accounted for in several ways in
Northwest Coast mythology ... Live holothurians,
when handled, have the disconcerting habit of
transforming themselves suddenly from soft to hard
or limp to stiff and back again. If handled enough,
they will also ejaculate, disgorging their own
viscera in apparent self-defence. This behavior is
efficiently explained in a story Arthur Lewis told
in Tsimshian to Gwüsk'aayn in the 1930s. The
first holothurian,
Lewis says, was the cast-off penis of the Raven
...
The figure drawn as
Ba1-38 could remind us of
Ga1-19 at
heliacal Alnilam.
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APRIL
9 (99) |
MAY 8
(138) |
39 |
APRIL 8 |
9 (464) |
10 (100 = 88 + 12) |
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Ga1-18 (→ 4 *
29½) |
Ga1-19 |
Ga1-20 |
KHUFU
MINTAKA (Belt) =
δ
Orionis,
υ
Orionis (82.4),
χ
Aurigae (82.5),
ε
Columbae (82.6)
*41.0 = *82.4 - *41.4
→ 41 Arietis (Bharani) |
KHAFRE
Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) /
Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) /
Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) /
Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)
ARNEB =
α
Leporis, CRAB NEBULA = M1 Tauri
(83.0,
φ¹
Orionis (83.1),
HEKA =
λ
Orionis, ORION NEBULA = M42
(83.2),
φ²
Orionis (83.6),
ALNILAM (String of Pearls) =
ε
Orionis
(83.7) |
MENKAURE
Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) /
Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull
towards the south) /
ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar
of exit)
HEAVENLY GATE =
ζ
Tauri,
ν
Columbae (84.0),
ω
Orionis (84.2),
ALNITAK (Girdle) =
ζ
Orionis,
PHAKT (Phaet) =
α
Columbae
(84.7) |
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June 11 |
12 (163 = 136 + 27 = 263 - 100) |
13 (*84) |
'May 15 (365 + 135 = 500) |
16 (136 = 8 * 29½ - 100) |
17 (*57) |
"May 1 (121 = 11 * 11) |
2 |
3
(*43) |
... Menkaure
was allegedly a much more benevolent
Pharaoh than his predecessors.
According to legends related by
Herodotus, he wrote the following:
This Prince (Mycerinus)
disapproved of the conduct of his
father, reopened the temples and
allowed
the people, who were ground down to
the lowest point of misery, to
return to their occupations and to
resume the practice of sacrifice.
His justice in the decision of
causes was beyond that of all the
former kings. The Egyptians praise
him in this respect more highly than
any other monarchs, declaring that
he not only gave his judgements with
fairness, but also, when anyone was
dissatisfied with his sentence, made
compensation to him out of his own
purse and thus pacified his anger.
The Gods however ordained that Egypt
should suffer tyrannical rulers for
a hundred and fifty years according
to this legend. Herodotus goes on:
An oracle reached
him from the town of Buto,
which said 'six years only shalt
thou live upon this earth, and in
the seventh thou shalt end thy
days'. Mycerinus, indignant,
sent an angry message to the oracle,
reproaching the god with his
injustice - 'My father and uncle,'
he said 'though they shut up the
temples, took no thought of the gods
and destroyed multitudes of men,
nevertheless enjoyed a long life; I,
who am pious, am to die soon!' There
came in reply a second message from
the oracle - 'for this very reason
is thy life brought so quickly to a
close - thou hast not done as it
behoved thee. Egypt was fated to
suffer affliction one hundred and
fifty years - the two kings who
preceded thee upon the throne
understood this - thou hast not
understood it'. Mycerinus,
when this answer reached him,
perceiving that his doom was fixed,
had lamps prepared, which he lighted
every day at eventime, and feasted
and enjoyed himself unceasingly both
day and night, moving about in the
marsh-country and the woods, and
visiting all the places he heard
were agreeable sojourns. His wish
was to prove the oracle false, by
turning night into days and so
living twelve years in the space of
six ... |
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
OCT 8 |
9 |
10 (283) |
Al Shaula-17
ALWAID (Mother Camels) =
β
Draconis, MAASYM (Wrist) =
λ
Herculis
(265.1),
SHAULA (Sting) =
λ
Scorpii
(265.3),
KUMA =
ν
Draconis
(265.6),
σ
Arae (265.9)
HAMAL (α ARIETIS) |
RAS ALHAGUE (Head of the Serpent Charmer) =
α Ophiuchi
(266.1),
SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3),
μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5),
NAN HAE (Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis
(266.6), AL
DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis,
ι Herculis (266.7) |
λ
Arae (267.1),
GIRTAB (Seizer) =
κ
Scorpii,
ο
Serpentis (267.6),
DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) =
ψ
Draconis
(267.9) |
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Dec 11 |
12 (346 = 366 - 20) |
13 |
'Nov 14 (318) |
15 |
16 (*240) |
"Oct 31 (304) |
"Nov 1 (*225) |
2 |
According to the oracle (→ orifice) from the
town of Bhuto (→ Pito) only 6
days were given to the benevolent Menkaure:
MENKAURE (MYCERINUS) |
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Ba1-39 |
Ba1-40 |
Ba1-41 |
Ba1-42 |
Ba1-43 |
Ba1-44 |
CLOSE
TO THE FULL MOON: |
MAY 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 (134) |
Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) /
Punarvasu-7 (The Two Restorers of
Goods) /
Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of
the Twins)
CASTOR (Beaver) = α Gemini (113.4)
*113.4 = *41.4 + *72.0 |
ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7
(Pillar for Elocution)
υ
Gemini (114.0),
MARKAB PUPPIS =
κ
Puppis
(114.7),
ο
Gemini (114.8),
PROCYON =
α
Canis Minoris
(114.9) |
α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7)
*74.0 = *115.4 - *41.4 |
Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of
the Twins)
κ Gemini (116.1),
POLLUX = β Gemini
(116.2), π Gemini (116.9) |
AZMIDISKE (Little Shield) =
ξ
Puppis (117.4)
*76.0 = *117.4 - *41.4 |
φ Gemini (118.4)
*77.0 = *118.4 - *41.4 =
*263.0 - *186.0 |
July 12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 (198) |
Only 3 glyphs (days) will then remain to the
end of line Ba1:
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