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... 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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Pb5-24 is glyph
number 180 on side b of the
tablet, suggesting half a year
corresponding to the Egyptian
year:
... Nut, whom
the Greeks sometimes identified
with Rhea, was goddess of the
sky, but it was debatable if in
historical times she was the
object of a genuine cult. She
was Geb's twin sister and, it
was said, married him secretly
and against the will of Ra.
Angered, Ra had the couple
brutally separated by Shu and
afterwards decreed that Nut
could not bear a child in any
given month of any year. Thoth,
Plutarch tells us, happily had
pity on her. Playing draughts
with the Moon, he won in the
course of several games a
seventy-second part of the
Moon's light with which he
composed five new days. As these
five intercalated days did not
belong to the official Egyptian
calendar of three hundred and
sixty days, Nut was thus able to
give birth successively to five
children: Osiris, Haroeris
(Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys
...:
In contrast the
Q text has set apart the
corresponding place into day 235
and 236, and we can here compare
with Gb1-6 respectively Gb1-7 at
Tarazed and
Altair (*300 = *236 + *64).
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TARAZED |
ALTAIR |
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Jan 14 |
15 (*300) |
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