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 ... All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North. ... 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. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ... Precession moves the 'railroad' of the Sun to positions which come earlier and earlier in the zodiacal year. The highest point on this road (ecliptic) is around 6h and in the time of Al Sharatain this point would have been not in the days before heliacal Tejat Prior but ca 27 RA days later:
Cancer was in rongorongo times roughly halfway between the northern summer solstice and autumn equinox. At the time of Macrobius (early 5th century) Cancer would have been ca (1842 - 400) / 71 = 20 days closer to the summer solstice.
8 hands are supporting the sky roof according to Macrobius and Aries has flowers. The sky roof in Dendera has 24 supporting hands:
Ga1-29 + 20 = Ga2-19 (49) and in the time of Macrobius heliacal Castor could have been the significant star at the end of the solstice rather than Tejat Prior:
When Macrobius stated the Gate of Cancer was where the souls descended from the Milky Way in order to be reborn, it could possibly have referred to the days beteween heliacal Castor and heliacal Pollux.
Yet, as we can see, the Milky Way continued obliquely further down towards the southwest (toga), all the way down to the sunken ship Argo Navis:
If once upon a time the true Gate of Cancer was at the northern summer solstice, then this gate ought to have stretched all the way down to the Milky Way, because Cancer is not in contact with the Milky Way. |
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