> I'll buy it then, if its still there.
>>I paid more than that.....

I'll buy it if they're open Sunday, I doubt ot tho - I get the impression they are all avid christians what with the bibles everywhere...

> The association of Osiris/Sah and Orion is clear
> from later periods, and Orion is variously
> associated with the archetypal raised arm god. The
> constellation is so prominent it would be
> surprising not to find it in ancient
> mythology....
>>Any evidence for that ? She's trying to make out that various myths actually reflect >>changes in the sky over time. Some may have - but it's over egging the pudding.

Well, I don't think anyone was aware of precession till Hipparchus of Rhodes 150BC?iirc, so I will be suprised if she managed to convince otherwise.

> So although the specific character of Sah may not
> be found pre-5th? dynasty, in Egypt, the
> constellation may have been identified/known
> earlier, for example at Nabta Playa where they
> were evidently interested in astronomy, probably
> wrt measurng the annual seasons for farming and
> pastoral migration.

>>They were ? Any evidence for that ?

Well, that's what Fred Wendorf, the archaeologist who excavated it, thought, and as it would be surprising to see a fully developed calendar suddenly appearing in OK egypt with no precursor or developmental sequence I agree with him. There's no evidence of a similar structure in the Nile Valley, so you need to look at the closest example. Of course, there's no historical record or written record from this period to use as evidence, because this is prehistoric times when they couldn't write yet.

In addition, all the evidence for climatic induced migration points to the fact that the pastoral people who lived in the savannah lands that lay to the east and west of the Nile migrated there when the climate dried them out.

Dave L



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