Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> But Caesar's son is drawn, next to his mother
> Cleopatra, as huge relief on the Hathor Temple
> backside:
>
> [en.wikipedia.org]
> (4th image from the left)
>
> I think that Caesar took the importance of Sirius
> he saw in the Hathor Temple back home and used it
> on his own calendar. And to point out the
> importance, he started his calendar's year with
> Sirius.

Hi Holger Isenberg,
It must be understood that Cleopatra thought she was Isis on Earth, but she was one of the Ptolemies, a dynasty from ancient Greek, who used Previous sunset as the start of the day, so 1st January 0045 BC when the Julian Calendar started could be sunset on 31st December 0046 BC.
The Greeks during this period were able to calculate an exact alignment, the ancient Egyptians used to look for a slight amber light in the East, it is possible that Dendera and the Temple of Hathor were aligned to Sirius by the sunset method, as this also happens in Luxor/Thebes and Aswan, for as the Sun sets, Sirius rises.
I send a graph showing this and links:-
[en.wikipedia.org]
[i.imgur.com]

Beliefs of this kind use one degree margins, 4 minutes = 1 degree, so alignment is within those margins or orbs,



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2022 05:48AM by Archaeoastronomer.