249 → 24 * 9 = 216 (August 4) = 2 * 108 = 4 * 54 = 8 * 27 = 249 - 33 (→ Mira). ... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...
Although the voice of Man and his Drum will carry influence not only over other men but also over the Gods and all their other Created Beings, there will always be some who are stubborn or deaf. Therefore it will be useful to carry a big stick (for the males) or a whip (for the women).
... At the beginning of 44 B.C. - when Ceasar was still alive - the Senate decided to raise statues of him in all the temples and to sacrifice to him on his birthday in the month Quintilis, which in honour of him was renamed July. He was raised to the status of a god (among the other gods of the state) under the name Jupiter Julius. Marcus Antonius, who this year was consul together with Ceasar, became high priest and responsible for the ceremonies. In the middle of February, at the time of the old feast of Lupercalia, he ran around naked (except for a girdle), and whipped the Roman ladies with thongs made from goat-skin [februa], in order to promote their fertility ... ... In the Saturnalia, the Lupercalia, their carnival successors and analogous annual festivals of traditional kingdoms elsewhere, a further permutation of the original structure appears. At this time of cosmic and social rebirth, celeritas and gravitas exchange places: the people become the party of disorder, and the celebration of their community is a so-called ritual of rebellion ... Thus after some battles Man can accomplish Change: ... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins. In far antiquity (5800 B.C.) the spring equinoctial point was predicted by the heliacal rising of the Twins (see fig. 6.6) ...
Evidently such a Change should bring something Good. We can guess one origin of this idea was when the last ice age began to melt away, when the 3 stars in Orion were arranged in the pattern of the 3 great pyramids: ... The arrangement of the three great pyramids of Gizeh does not, though, agree with the arrangement of the three stars in the Belt of Orion as it looked around 2.500 BC but as it looked around 10.450 BC. As Robert Bauval has shown there is a map in Gizeh corresponding to the map of the sky in 10.450 BC. Not only the arrangements of the three stars is exactly reproduced in the three pyramids, but also their magnitude ...
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