The world of the Fifth Millennium BCE records the Egyptian Nile
Delta with evidence of agriculture and of barley grain crops stored in silos.
It is postulated that agriculture must have existed for some while to bring the
wild crop to this cultivated state. Indications of cult beliefs are found in
planted hippo bones, ox-head clay models and fetal burial positions with
amulets. Pre-dynastic artifacts of Egypt bear a remarkable resemblance to those
of Central Asia and of Libya in Africa. The Sumerian city of Nineveh is first
built around this time and the Hassuna culture flourishes in upper Mesopotamia.
It seems that this millennium is the bridge and foundation to orthodox recorded
history of the following millennium.
4867 The
author Jane B. Sellers estimates an eighty-year series of four eclipses
occurring over the land of ancient Egypt between now and 4787 BCE. These
eclipses are observable over key settlements. She says that the ancients interpreted
these eclipses as a battle of the gods who in their turn are represented by the
different stars that rise and set at important points in the year. Her work
follows on from that of Lockyer who surveyed ancient Egypt and established the
truth of star cults in early civilizations.
As
particular stars disappear from the dawn horizon at the Equinoxes due to
Precession, and enforced by the phenomena of total eclipses, it is postulated
by the author that these events were interpreted by the Ancient Egyptians as a
war between the ruling gods Horus and Seth.
At
the fourth total eclipse of this unusual series of eclipses, it is postulated
by Sellers that observers at Nekhen in Egypt lost sight of the rising star
Alderbaran on the Vernal Equinox. This occurrence is said to conclude the war
between Horus and Seth.
By
4867 BCE HORUS, depicted in the solar boat, is
claimed ruler over all of Ancient Egypt with the Pleiades now rising in the
dawn sky of the Vernal Equinox, thus heralding a new era. And indeed the
Taurean Age is declared to begin around this time.
c4500 BCE TAUREAN WORLD AGE begins between now and 4320 BCE
and marks the frontier of recorded history. The Egyptian god Re plants the
spiritual seed in the fertile soil of human experience. The chief cult at this
time is that of the Bull in accord with the sign and symbol of the Age. In
Semitic, the bull is called El; in Egyptian, Apis; in Creten, Minos. In all
ancient zodiacs known, this constellation marked the beginning of the year and
a golden age in archaic astronomy.
Between
now and 3100 BCE corresponding with the Taurean Age, is the reign of the first
dynastic kings of Egypt, as recorded by the Greek historian Manetho. In
pre-dynastic Egypt when the land formed two kingdoms, each with its own ruler
and god, the Northern Kingdom of the Delta region based its capitol city and
kings residence at Pe (near Dep) and which will later be called Buto. The other
kingdom is the Southern Kingdom of the Nile valley, from Atfih to Gebel, its
capitol city and kings residence is based at Nekhen (later Hieracompolis) near
Edfu. The unification of the two pre-dynastic Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt
takes place now as the Vernal Equinox enters the constellation of Taurus. Other
authors place the First Egyptian dynasty in the future at about 3100 BCE.
One
dating of the Great Pyramids of Giza, is suggested for this time.
4240 BCE This year is
believed to be the foundation year of the Egyptian ‘Sothic Calendar ‘according
to scholar Schwaller de Lubicz, and this is because tradition placed the
heliacal rising of Sirius at the Summer Solstice in the constellation of Leo.
Sirius is the only fixed star with an unvaried cycle of 365.25 days, which
measures a more accurate Earth year than does the solar cycle. Such stellar
computations were in the hands of the Priests of On. The Ramasseum gives
distinct reference to the signs of Taurus, Leo and Scorpio and the fact that
Sirius was the morning star at the beginning of the Nile-rise. The star Sothis is known as the 'Great Provider', and regarded as another and greater sun around which it is possible that our sun and solar system orbits.
SIRIUS from Hubble telescope
The
Egyptians have three calendars at this time, the lunar, the solar and the
Siriac. Their solar calendar is of 12 months of 30 days equaling 360 (complete
circle/cycle) plus 5 days for the births of the gods Osiris, Isis, Horus,
Nephthys and Set. The Siriac calendar was based on the flooding of the Nile,
which had a predictable cycle and could be used as a calendar and timing
devise. The heliacal rise of Sirius at this time, marked the first day of the
month of Thoth and the Egyptian Solar ‘New Year Day’. The flow of the Nile gave
Egypt 3 seasons; flooding from late June to late October, plant growth from
October to February; harvest from February to the end of June.
The
coincidence of the Egyptian Sothic and civil calendars occurred every 1460
Sothic years and marked the return of the Bennu bird. The Bennu bird or Phoenix
is symbolized by the apex stone of the obelisk, and in its turn marked the
return of the ‘First Time’ (Tep Zepi) and the beginning of a new aeon.
The
Nippurian or Lunar Calendar begins at the Spring New Moon. That is when the Sun
is at 19° of the constellation now known as Aries, and the Moon was at 3° of
the constellation Taurus. In Babylon, the Spring Equinox heralds the beginning
of the New Year with the heliacal rising of the Pleiades together with a New
Moon.
4004 The
21st March 4004 BCE will be claimed by creationist in the 18th
century CE as the date when God created the World. Some call it the ‘Silver
Age’ with the northern hemisphere experiencing the Spring Equinox in the
constellation Taurus, the Summer Solstice in Leo, the Autumn Equinox in Scorpio
and the Winter Solstice in Aquarius. Others declare the Taurean Age to be a
‘Copper Age’, appropriate to the ruling planet Venus. It is also the time of
the Biblical worship of the ‘Golden Calf’.
Bull’s Heads from ancient Knossos, Crete.
