Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Archaeoastronomer Wrote:
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> > I am not a great fan of the Sothic Cycle as it
> > doesn't seem to work for astronomers when you
> > check the dates,
>
> I'm neither a fan of that, see it more as a deep
> distraction away from the more important topics
> and let's try to avoid that topic here.
>
> > So you may think Caesar aligned Sirius to 1st
> > January but this isn't true, as 46BC was the
> "Year
> > of Confusion" being 445 days long, so within
> > reason they were aligning dates to fall where
> they
> > wanted, i can see Sosigenes and Cleopatra may
> have
> > schemed and plotted how this would fall out!
>
> I see, Sosigenes was the astronomer consultant to
> Cleopatra and also Caesar. That would make sense
> as he was definitely aware of the Sirius midnight
> culmination time during the year and may have
> brought that into the discussion as suggestion
> while Caesar was looking for something of similar
> importance to anchor his own calendar as Cleopatra
> already had in Egypt with the Isis new year
> ceremony.

Hi Holger,
At this point i thought i would send a joke, but it could be a double bluff, and could be aligned to the date by intention, LOL!

If you wanted to get rid of a Pharaoh or a King of Egypt, what day would you choose?
The ancient Egyptians used Sunrise as the start of the day, so we could use sunrise!
The Ancient Egyptians used a calendar that is alleged started with Sirius rising with the Sun or being the Heliacal rising star, a lot of mystery schools believe this, and Isis is believed to be the Star Sirius.
Nasser wanted to overthrow King Farouk in the Revolution of 1952, Government was in and still is in Cairo, so we could pick that location, so did Nasser pick the day by astrological observations?
[en.wikipedia.org]

On that day and location, Sirius rose with the Sun along the horizon in the East, make up your own mind, indeed we don't have to go back too far to know that states used to employ astrologers to pick days for war!
Astronomy graph below, it is accurate:-

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