Inside the superimposed rectangle is the hieratic writing for the word 'Horus'. [Credit: Lauri Jetsu]
Posted on 12/20/2015 7:14:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol -- a manifestation of Horus, a god and a king. This calendar contains lucky or unlucky prognoses for each day of one year. Researchers have performed a statistical analysis of the Cairo Calendar mythological texts.
Their analysis revealed that the periods of Algol (2.85 days) and the Moon (29.6 days) strongly regulate the actions of deities in this calendar.
"Until now, there were only conjectures that many of the mythological texts of the Cairo Calendar describe astronomical phenomena. We can now unambiguously ascertain that throughout the whole year the actions of many deities in the Cairo Calendar are connected to the regular changes of Algol and the Moon," says Master of Science Sebastian Porceddu.
This research confirms that the first variable star, as well as its period, were discovered much earlier than was previously thought. These two "classical" milestones in the history of natural sciences need to be shifted three millennia backwards in time to 1244 -- 1163 BC.
This also confirms the two "modern" astrophysical results reported by the Helsinki group in the year 2013: The first direct observation ever of the expected increase of Algol's period and the accurate long--term estimate for the mass transfer in this binary system.
"I would have serious doubts, if someone claimed, for example, that the Bible contains information about water in Mars. We claimed that Ancient Egyptian religious texts contain astrophysical information about Algol. It was no surprise to us that there were, and there still are, skeptics," says docent Lauri Jetsu.
The research also confirms that the brightest phases of Algol and the Moon had particularly positive meanings for the Ancient Egyptians.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Inside the superimposed rectangle is the hieratic writing for the word 'Horus'. [Credit: Lauri Jetsu]
Cool.
Would this be known as Cairo practice?
You erroneously so claim, and they don't. It is simple observational astronomical data, without any astrophysical component...unless Greek myths concerning Poseidon's horses causing earthquakes are also considered "geophysics".
I'm sorry, (really not) but it is stupid statements like that which fuel the "lost knowledge of The Ancients" quacks.
Gee, I know Al Gol is big, but big enough to cause an eclipse? Perhaps he got bloated from ManBearPig disease.
Maybe the Egyptians liked it, but the Babylonians thought it was the nastiest star up there. Head of a Gorgon, symbolizing violence and evil and infamy.
Dang. I misread that to say “... Al Gore’s eclipse...”
And I thought, finally, we can get done with this idiot glowball worming nonsense.
Art Bell quit again.
Nope, the aliens who used the pyramids to store grain did that.
You’re bound to be right about that — the whole darned country is full to the eyeballs with old bones, someone was going to get the idea eventually.
I guess someone didn’t get the memo.
Ancient Egyptians discovered Algol’s variability 3,000 years before western astronomers
November 12, 2018, De Gruyter
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-ancient-egyptians-algol-variability-years.html
...in Peoples of the Sea (1977) the time of Ramses III and with him the entire Twentieth Dynasty have already been shown to belong into the fourth century... [Immanuel Velikovsky, The Assyrian Conquest: The Sequence of Dynasties]
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