Once again. The shadow of death haunted Menkaure - he was not a god but a mortal. Beyond the west bank of the Nile (the River of Life and Death) and beyond the graveyard on the plateau of Gizah, there had to be a return somehow. In ancient Egypt everything was said to be 'upside down', probably because up was in the south and down in the north. Sweet and fertilizing water ran down from the rains in the mountains far up in the south to inundate the soil of Egypt in July at the same time as when Sirius would return from the vicinity of the Sun. New year came in July and not in January. ... When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...
The important star constellations had, however, probably been outlined in Babylonia - a land between a pair of twin rivers running down from the north to the south - and with spring rains filling this pair at another side of the year. Therefore we should use the nakshatra stars in July in order to make them correspond to the heliacal stars of January - in order to make us better understand that July was at the beginning of the year, in a way following the winter solstice. Likewise it was on Easter Island. I.e., Menkaure could at Ga1-20 have been depicted as a sleeping (moe) bird because the stars at the Full Moon were at the opposite side of the 3 stars at the Belt of Orion. Heliacal June 13 (*84) corresponded to nakshatra December 13 (*267 = *84 + 183). Here there was a Wolf Pair (Dsiban, ψ Draconis):
This explains why the map of Gizah has to be inverted - why the pyramid of Menkaure was closer to the southeast than the pyramids of his father and of his uncle. The arrow pointing towards north was pointing down - like an imperative thumb of death:
It was as if the star for the female girdle (Alnitak, ζ) was drawn down a bit in order to aim for Sirius. And close to Alnitak there was a little one, σ, which I evidently have failed to take notice of in my list. This must immediately be ameliorated:
σ Orionis was located precisely below ω at his backbone:
In the night sky we can see that Orion arrives earlier than the Milky Way:
But the plateau of Gizah with its 3 great pyramids were located in the west compared to the Nile. Here time must have moved withershins, like the motion of the Moon. Looking towards the south instead of towards the north does not change what is east and what is west and some other explanation must be found for changing the direction of the arrow of time from following the Sun to following the Moon. However, by recognizing the position of Orion as a very special place down below the band of the ecliptic the change from east of the River (Orion) to west of the River (Gizah) can be compared to a change from death-in-life (Orion) to life-in-death (Gizah).
When the Sun (and the other stars) were returning at the horizon in the east it implied they had travelled under the earth from the time 12 hours earlier when they had gone down at the horizon in the west. Therefore the position of the 3 great pyramids suggested a place on the night side journey, 'withershins', in order to 'reincarnate' in the early east. There should not be any dead bodies inside these pyramids ('ships'), instead the spirits of the unborn should have lived there.
In the Khufu pyramid there is a shaft which points at the tail of Draco, towards Thuban - the ancient star at the north pole.
... The star [Thuban] could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30º of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures ...
... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ... ... At the time of Julius Caesar the autumn equinox was where the Sun reached Thuban, in 'September 22 (265) and with Alrisha close to the Full Moon. This fact could easily be deduced from the speed of the precession ... Counting for the time of Menkaure (ca 2500 BC and at the time of Stonehenge) the heliacal date ought to have been around (2500 + 1842) / (26000 / 365¼) = 61 right ascension days before the time of rongorongo and October 19 (*212, Thuban) - *61 = *151 (August 19). Or possibly we should add 16 more days to arrive at 231 (August 19) + 16 = *167 (September 4, 11h). ... when anciently the return of Sirius had marked time in Egypt it was determined from when Sirius returned to visibility, which would have happened at a minimum of 16 nights after its true heliacal day. 61 + 16 = 77 ... And then, correcting for the framework chosen by the creator of the G text there should be some explanation for why Ga1-23 appears to be at nakshatra December 16 (350) rather than 6 days after heliacal June 10. September 4 (247) - 167 (June 16) = 80.
Lahun (with a dark Sun eye) was number 11 (as counted by us) and here the lower jaw was pronounced. |
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There were early graphical variants that omitted
the stem, 'chickenfoot-shaped psi', as:
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