Hi Ritva,

Here is the abstract:

Speculation on Special Sunlight: The Origin of the wSAw Hour


"The ancient Egyptian decan star system that is explained in the Carlsberg papyri has been misunderstood for over a half century. Otto Neugebauer's "decanal belt" model fails because it posits a pattern that no stars fit. The pattern required by the texts is satisfied by a model recently published by Joanne Conman. In Neugebauer's model, the 70-day period that stars are said to be Sn dwAt is understood to mean that those stars are invisible following their heliacal setting. Conman has demonstrated that this cannot be true. In any given decade of days, the Sn dwAt star rises late at night, marking the wSAw hour, and thus indicating the time that the sun is "enclosed in the dwAt." This new understanding of what it means to be Sn dwAt star raises more questions. This paper conjectures a parallel between winter solstice and the wSAw hour in Egyptian thought, and explores the implied belief that sunlight during prt season was imbued with special regenerative powers. Capturing the sunlight at the appropriate magical time is hypothesized as the purpose for both the shafts in Great Pyramid at Giza and the illumination of the statue of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel."


You may be interested to know that audience members included Charlie from the Guardian's board and John Anthony West, among others. And I did collect my Shirley Temple from John Wall, but I think now I owe him a whole dinner...