L Cooper Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
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> > Two questions. First, where would I find any
> such
> > associations? And are you aware of any sources
> > that tie stars to gods or cities/ nomes?
>
>
> Lull and Belmonte, "In Search of Cosmic Order",
> Chapter 6 -'The Constellations of Ancient Egypt'.
> This used to be available free online, but I
> couldn't find it just now. Interlibrary Loan will
> get it for you - it has a helpful bibliography.
>
> D. V. Etz, 'A New Look at the Constellation
> Figures in the Celestial Diaram', JARCE 34 (1997),
> 143-161. Etz asks many of the right questions,
> although he does not go far enough with his
> conclusions.
>
> As to your Nome question, good luck. While many of
> the Nome names and ensigns had their roots in the
> circumpolar mythologies, I don't know who actually
> tackles this question. Newberry comes somewhat
> close in his article in Ancient Egypt 1914, pp.
> 3-8 - 'Notes on Some Egyptian Nome Ensigns and
> their Historical Significance'.
> [books.google.com]
>
> If you find out more about this, please let me
> know. It is an interesting question.

Thanks for the leads.

My next project (actually I started it and only put a few hours work into it a few months back) is to identify and locate all the place names in the Pyramid Texts (there were many more than I thought). I suspect they not only are all "reflected" in Rosteau but in the stars as well because the "gods" are associated with places and with stars. I only need twenty or thirty of these points to be meaningful and believe it might reveal a great deal of information. It would even provide clues to the locations for many unknown place names.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.