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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
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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 ...
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Rei in Ga1-30 is tiny, indicating a new beginning
('reincarnation').
In rongorongo times this was when the Sun was between the
feet of Castor, η and μ Gemimi (Tejat Prior respectively Tejat
Posterior) - possibly the 'Gate of Cancer'.
'Tejat prior is
from Al Tahāyi, an anatomical term of Arabia, by
which it was known in early days; a name also applied to
stars in the head of Orion.' (Allen) |
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In the times of
Al Sharatain this star
position was visible close to the Full Moon in 'November 26
(*250). In rongorongo times the preceding date November 25
coincided with the heliacal rising of Antares - a sign of
the arrival of summer. South of the equator the 11th month
November corresponded to month number 11 - 6 = 5 = May. |
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I.e., it was possible to reuse the ancient structure of
constellations, where the stars of Taurus once had marked
the northern spring equinox. At the opposite side of the sky was
the Scorpion (with Antares) and when in late 'November
Aldebaran was close to the Full Moon it meant the Sun was at Antares - a sign of
southern summer ahead. |
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More anciently it had been the Gemini pair who
announced the beginning of the summer half of the year. In
the times of Al Sharatain their feet were close
to the Full Moon in late 'November, indicating the Sun was
in Sagittarius, close to Kaus Medius and Kaus Australis
(δ respectively ε). |
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Egyptian
door |
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Phoenician
dalet |
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Greek
delta |
Δ (δ) |
... Delta
(uppercase Δ, lowercase δ) ... is the fourth letter
of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek
numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from
the Phoenician letter Dalet.
Letters that come
from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д. A river
delta (originally, the Nile River delta) is so named
because its shape approximates the upper-case letter
delta (the shape is a triangle) ...
Dalet (dāleth,
also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the
fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets ... The
letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age
alphabets, probably called dalt 'door' (door
in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based
on a hieroglyph depicting a door.
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Egyptian
jubilation |
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Phoenician
he |
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Greek
epsilon |
Ε (ε) |
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Wikipedia points at
the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign
of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via
Phoenician he) of epsilon.
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When
Sun time was counted from Bharani the feet of the Twins were
visible close to the Full Moon beyond the night of "November
10 =
day 314 in the Gregorian calendar (had it been in use at
that time).
In
rongorongo times the Sun had advanced to the June solstice
and the creator of the Gregorian calendar
may have calibrated this day to coincide with just before
where the feet of Castor had been in the time of Bharani. |
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It was natural to have the
June solstice where the Sun could be imagined to meet his destiny in form
of the Milky Way. Fire cannot survive in water. But a pair
of new cycles ('years') would rise again on the opposite
side of the River:
... 'The earth
rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and
things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for
neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and
they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There
come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along
his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other
world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse
their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find
in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played
with.
Two children of
men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt.
Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the
morning dew and from this human pair will come a great
population which will fill the earth. And strange to say,
the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a
daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her
mother.' |
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ºJune 19
(170) can be counted as 61 * 9 = 549 = 366 + 183 = 3 *
183. Furthermore, when this star position was close to the Full
Moon in the night of ºDecember 19 (*273 = *90 + 183) its
distance from ºMarch 21 (80) alluded to the last day of
ºSeptember (273 = 3 * 91). |
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