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Hi Holger,
Various attempts have been made to fit a date to the scene on the Dendera Zodiac, hence making it a horoscope. However, none have been accepted and the presently accepted theory is that the position of the planets is in line with their hypsomata, or places of exaltation. I would refer you to pp185-187 of the following paper:
Lull, Jose, and Juan Antonio Belmonte. "The conste
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Here is the press release from the University:
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> > Thanks for this, Byrd.
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> > I just looked for the phrase "he is a star",
> which
> > doesn't exist in that precise form (at least,
> in
> > Allen's translation).
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>
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Pistol Wrote:
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> I guess I could have made it more clear.... this
> line of inquiry into G1-d proves the basis of the
> thread, there are no satisfactory solutions
> regarding the functional aspect (use, magic) of a
> pyramid be it huge or very small atop the Giza
> Plateau. But, to be clear the argument in favor of
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> Over the decades, researchers have proposed a
> handful of possible celestial alignments for the
> pyramids, especially with the Giza Pyramid
> Complex. This famous site outside Cairo includes
> the Great Sphinx and three main pyramids: the
> Pyramid of Menkaure, the Pyramid of Khafre, and
> the
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> It’s also important to keep in mind the eastern
> and western mastaba fields separate direct family
> and descendants on the east, officials, scribes,
> craftsmen and so on in the western field. Perhaps
> more important is the ground is carved up like
> Swiss cheese, there are many reuses atop the
&g
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> I have read both articles, essentially Hawass puts
> forward the idea that G1-d was a changing room for
> the king during the sed festival, but uses
> Djoser's southern mastaba as parallel, skips over
> all that came before Khufu, like his father and
> validates it by stating Khufu's pyramid
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> Here we may disagree, The so called Satellite
> Pyramid G1-d is so unlike the other three G1a,
> G1b, G1c... I'm not sure, other than what's in
> this article, Hawass actually surveyed the site
> and published his results. other than its location
> it hasn't any Old Kingdom hallmarks of
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Pistol Wrote:
>The capstone of a pyramid
> is in fact a scaled down miniature of the pyramid
> it's intended to be placed atop (Lehner 1999),
> clearly a relation exists between a pyramids
> capstone and the sacred benben stone of Heliopolis
> since it was known to the Old Kingdom Egyptians as
> the benben-et (Verner 2002).
The pyramidion of the Satellite
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It is well worth reading the thesis written by Jenny Berggren on just one phrase in the Westcar Papyrus. The best link is on the wayback machine on archive.org:
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> > > If they'd had decimals, the number-happy
> > > Babylonians would have pranced down to Cairo
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> If they'd had decimals, the number-happy
> Babylonians would have pranced down to Cairo and
> nicked the concept in a heartbeat!
Hi Byrd,
This is an unfortunate statement. There would be very little practical benefit to the Babylonians from adopting a decimal system over the sexagesimal system t
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Hans_lune Wrote:
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> Yep they didn't have a zero. How are you doing
> incorporating Li and Wah - actually there are a
> lot more measurement systems. I believe you could
> 'find' in the pyramids.
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> Here is a list of all of them:
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>
> Shoehorn them in somewhere - didn't you know that
> the GP was really the first UN building.
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Hi Jim,
This paper provides an excellent overview of our knowledge of the Egyptian knowledge of the planets:
Quack, J. F. (2019). The planets in ancient Egypt. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science. Accessed from:
Regards,
Brendan
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I took some time to update my paper to align to the APA style guide. As I was doing this, I edited out some content that was causing confusion. The paper is available here:
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There is an interesting paper by Jed Buchwald on this here:
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Do you have a recommended style? For example APA or Harvard?
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> I see now that Petosiris and Nechepso are
> mentioned in your n. 14 ( Neugebauer (1942) pp 236
> - 239, Neugebauer (1975), Book III, p562 and Van
> der Waerden (1985) pp96-97).
Thanks Hermione. I have tried to use footnotes throughout for references as I found that improved readability. I'm not su
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> A worse source is the type you give where (to
> quote exactly from your paper) you use “The
> Egyptian men of old who had faithfully studied the
> heavenly bodies and had learned the motions of the
> seven gods...(etc)" -- Although we know the author
> of that quote, we don't know who he means by
> "Egyptian men of old who had fait
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> Well, some spelling and grammar mistakes
> ("Babylonian's" for "Babylonians" - as someone
> with a degree in English, the use of an apostrophe
> to incorrectly indicate a plural noun is always
> grating) - and frankly the evidence isn't terribly
> convincing.
>
Hi By
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> I have revised this paper to provide an overview
> of the current state of knowledge of Egyptian
> astronomy. The updated paper is here:
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There were a few downloads from this forum. Any feedback from those that have downloaded the paper?
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I have revised this paper to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of Egyptian astronomy. The updated paper is here:
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The following article may be of interest:
Franc Zalewski, Petrographic Observations of the Building Stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Journal of Geological Resource and Engineering 4 (2017) 153-168
Regards,
Brendan
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Hi Holger,
I have been reviewing Neugebauer and Parker, Egyptian Astronomical Texts, vol III. Decans, planets, Constellations and Zodiacs PLATES for my own purposes and came across plates 46 through plate 50. These plates contain a similar streams of triangles pointing towards the sun. I have not read the accompanying text so make no comment on the symbology. The accompanying text is in a sepe
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For context of the constellations of ancient Egypt, I have found Lull and Belmonte’s paper excellent:
I have also recommended to Holger in another forum the following paper because of its discussion on meteors on pp8-9:
Iron in Egypt
Author(s): G. A. Wainwright
Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology , May, 1932, Vol. 18, No. 1/2 (May, 1932), pp. 3-15
Published by: Sage Publications,
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> And moving onward...
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> > There is very little by way of advanced
> > mathematics claimed - simply knowledge of
> > arithmetic progressions, which is demonstrated
> in
> > the RMP examples present
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Hi Byrd,
Thanks for this feedback - as I work independently, this type of feedback is invaluable to me. I will look to address in a revised copy of the paper over the next week or so.
Regards,
Brendan
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Hi Byrd,
Thankyou for your interest in my paper and feedback. I’ve responded below.
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> Now... I'll admit I'm skeptical of the Egyptians
> and advanced math (as compared to the
> Babylonians.) Here's the things that didn't
> connect with me:
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There is very little by way of advanced
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I have posted a draft paper on academia which investigates the Egyptian contribution to mathematical astronomy. This paper is available here:
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I have restructured my paper and published the update here:
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