Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> One older source from history is the Isis temple
> built directly next to it on the south western
> wall only a few meters away with the same 18°
> clockwise rotation from north alignment. The long
> axis of the Isis temple is pointing directly to
> the Eastern gate 100m away, where Sirius would
> rise the first time in the year. Do you agree
> about the Isis temple alignment? Note, that here
> the long axis of the much smaller temple was
> aligned towards Sirius.

I think that a little more research would have shown you that this does not support any of your ideas.

The building was built by Augustus (so AFTER Julius Caesar) and doesn't really reflect any ancient Egyptian knowledge or knowledge of Sirius. Augustus had little actual contact with the Greco-Egyptian version of the Egyptian religion and didn't attach any importance to Orion or Sirius (no emblems, no feast days, no personal seals with reference to these deities, etc.) .Augustus DID, however, build temples around his empire to the major deities of the area including a temple to Phrygia (an important deity in the area of Turkey -- a deity of birth and fertility much like Isis.) He did not build them to all the deities of an area or even to minor deities of the area.

The interior decoration and text is all about Isis The temple gates and hypostyle face the direction of dawn on the date of Isis' birth (which had been a fixed date since at least the New Kingdom) -- but the shrine itself faces and aligns with the big Dendera temple (dedicated to Hathor-Isis) [www.tour-inegypt.com]

If it'd meant Sirius, the shrine would have references to Sirius.

-- Byrd
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