104-Year Venus Round
The
strongest pillar connecting the Mayan Calendar system to the aforementioned
Antediluvian Calendar is the transit pathway and surviving mythology
surrounding the planet Venus. Repetitive
legends and astronomical principles were in place that associate five helical
risings of Venus every 8-years in the Sun Kingdoms’ religion with motions of
Sirius. The Dresden Codex Venus Table
furnishes critical planetary facts regarding Venus. Five pages of the Dresden Codex record
heliacal risings for the planet Venus.
The famous Aztec mythological figurehead, Quetzalcoatl resurrects to
assume his rightful place as the supreme deity.
He was the Feathered Serpent that revived the dried bones of the old
dead by sprinkling his blood on them. Quetzalcoatl or Venus was the morning star god of
vegetation and fertility. Life, light and visibility oppose death, darkness, and
invisibility below the horizon.
Ancient observers noticed the relative
positions of Earth, Venus and the Sun recur according to a schedule. Venus orbits the sun 13 times in 8 years
during the period in which the earth orbits the sun 8 times. Venus passes between the earth and the sun 5
times in 8 years. Venus, in astronomical
terms, completes five synodic periods in 8 years or 5 complete evening and morning star circuits. The synodic
interval is the time between two successive conjunctions of a planet (Venus)
with the sun. Each synodic
period lasts about 1.6 Earth years or 584-days. The
The visible path of Venus simplifies below in figure 9. Venus moves counter clockwise in the drawing around the sun with the earth at the bottom. The earth is spinning on its axis while the orbit is stationary in this diagram. Venus appears on the left side of the sun as an evening star, between points A and B. On the right side of the sun, Venus is a morning star between points C and D.
A Mayan priest observer first notices Venus at point A in the west as an evening star. The sunset heliacal rising occurs slightly before sunset and represents the birth of Venus. Heliacal rising occurs on the fourth day of each synodic period of the planet. Like the sun god Ra of Egypt at dawn, Quetzalcoatl begins to grow up. The moving planet spectacle grows brighter and brighter between superior and inferior conjunctions, averaging 263-days as an evening star in the west. Venus attains maximum brightness in the prime of Quetzalcoatl’s life.
Venus moves rapidly near the earth at point B, which seemingly causes Quetzalcoatl to die. Venus travels between the Earth and the Sun to obtain inferior conjunction with the Sun and for a brief time Venus cannot be seen because of the brightness of the Sun. Quetzalcoatl dwells behind the sun in the underworld for 4-days. Another 4-days pass before point C, during which time legend claims the god was bony and weak. Quetzalcoatl returns to the living when Venus miraculously reappears on the right side as a morning star after 8-days. Quetzalcoatl resurrects full strength at point C as the rising bright morning star. He wanes in brightness until superior conjunction starts at D. The evening star that vanishes from the western sky at inferior conjunction resurfaces in the eastern sky as a morning star before sunrise. Returning gods arise from death with heavenly honors after spending time in the underworld.
Heliacal Risings of Venus
Figure 9
Counter
Clock Wise
Evening Star Morning Star
263-days 263-days
B-C
8-days
Heliacal Risings of Venus Figure 9
The god’s journey continues 263-days more
until again he disappears on the far side of the sun in the morning light. The last 50-days are spent behind the sun
prior to his reemerging once again in the evening at A. From D to A is the superior conjunction
50-day interval of invisibility for Venus.
Venus spends an average of about 263-days as an evening and morning
star. The feathered serpentine god
disappears on the near side of the sun for 8-days and on the far side for
50-days. The entire synodic
cycle of Venus is 584-days. The actual
orbit of Venus around the sun is 225-days.
The 104-Year Venus Round is the
nucleus of the Mayan Calendar. Two
52-year Calendar Rounds include 13 different 8-solar-year periods that multiply
to get the 104-Year Venus Round. The
Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is Kukulatin in Maya
land. The Dresden Codex Venus Table depends on two
52-year Calendar Rounds having 52-Haab-solar years of 365 days each. Each table completes its total interval of
104-Haab-solar-years, or 37,960-days.
Two turns of the Venus Table are equivalent to one 208-year cycle with
four different 52-year Calendar Rounds.
The 260-day-tzolken-year,
365-day-Haab-year and 104-year Venus Round all synchronize at the end of every 104-Haab-solar-years.
The Venus Round of Tzolken, Haab and Venus cycle is complete when the
intervals synchronize on the senior emergence day-sign, the Sacred Day of
Venus, 1 Ahau. The beginning of the Long
Count, or the 5200-Tun-year Great Cycle, was over 3000-years ago. The star Regulus announces the 104-year Venus
Round (
Author Anthony Aveni has written numerous books about ancient civilizations and their respective calendar systems. In Empires of Time, he shifts our attention from the traditional 225-day orbit of Venus: “To know how it [584-day Venus cycle] was envisioned by the Maya, we must divest ourselves of the heliocentric posture we have acquired since the Renaissance, and learn that the 584-day Venus cycle, as far as an earth-based spectator is concerned, is really far removed from the sun-centered Venus year of Western astronomy” (1995, p. 225).
The traditional interpretation establishes that a 104-year Venus Round multiplies by a 365-day-Haab-solar-year to attain 37,960-days in the Venus Round. Mesopotamian cultures altered these figures slightly. Seth in Egyptian mythology is a male god similar to the Old Testament Baals. The Biblical Astarte or Astaroth is the female fertility consort to the Babylonian Baal. Standing stones symbolized Baal or Bel, and his alias names: Baalat, Molech or Marduk. A bull frequently represents Baal/Seth.. Ishtar is the proper Babylonian name for the Canaanite goddess Astarte, Asherah, or Astaroth. Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus as the bright morning star. Her Sumerian name is Inanna. Later the Greeks would caller her Aphrodite and the Romans by the common name of today, Venus. She was equated with the Greek Europa and Isis, the female fertility goddess and consort to Osirius in Egyptian mythology.
Planet Venus was the bright morning
star throughout the ancient world. In
Perhaps
the oldest known document pertaining to the 104-year Venus Cycle period is the
Venus Tablet of King Ammizaduga. The cuneiform clay tablet is
thought to include tabulated observations of the planet Venus for
some twenty-one years of Ammizaduga's reign, 1646 to
1626 B.C.E. Tablet K 160 is dated in the
8 th century B.C.E. and
thought to be a copy. The First
Babylonian Dynasty king ruled with the advice of written Omens. One famous surviving example is called Tablet
63 or K 160), from the collection: Enuma Anu Enlil of the
Middle
Eastern religions drew a surge of interest in the latter half of the 19 th century from European
intellectual circles. The science of
Biblical archeology was in its infancy.
Two noteworthy writers, F. X. Kugler and
George Smith contributed fascinating discoveries and translations of cuneiform
tablets. F. X. Kugler
(1909) published the German two volume set: Sternkunde und Sterndienst
Sterndienst in
...Venus 8 years behind thee come back...4 days thou shalt subtract...Mercury 6 years behind thee come back...the phenomena of Mars 47 years...12 days more...shalt thou observe...the phenomena of Saturn 59 years...come back day for day shalt thou observe...the phenomena of Sirius 27 years...come back day for day shalt thou observe... (p. 45).
The above tablet from 380 B.C.E. confirms Babylonians knew synodic periods of the planets, or wanderings stars. Similar tablets have shown that Babylonian priest-astronomers were calculating eclipses, synodic periods and helical risings since the 6th century B.C.E. (History, 2004, para 1). Note two other items: the instruction to subtract 4-days and the 27-year phenomena of Sirius. The first is a direct relationship to the Dresden Codex that begins the 8-year synodic period of Venus on the fourth day following the helical rising. Sirus’ phenomena likely refer to 364-day-and-year single terms and the concept of numerical matching.
Resurrection
allowed celestial deities to have immortal distinction. The gods Sirius and Quetzalcoatl for example,
were thought to die when they disappeared from naked
eye view. Egyptian Sun god Ra died at
sundown. Ra returned to the living as a
child, growing brighter and stronger as the day progresses. The story of Sirius, the “Dog Star” in Canis Major follows suit with 70-days of invisibility every
year prior to returning. The annual
heliacal rising coincided with the
Sin was the
moon-god in
The wide array of pan-Babylonian history has accepted inferences to the early scriptures in Genesis. Our goal is to highlight traces that provide relevant insight about Biblical calendar times, whether based in polytheism, on written tablets or authentic interpretations. Comparing mythical tales regarding astrology with hard scientific facts learned from modern astronomy may seem like a pointless endeavor to some. Sacred calendar wisdom includes somewhat flamboyant access through magical numbers and descriptions. We have to do our very best to see things from the ancient perspective.
Animated Venus Inferior Conjunction Figure 10
Animation showing a complete cycle of
inferior planet aspects from one inferior conjunction to the next (i.e. one synodic period). The animation is viewed from a point in space above the
Earth's North pole and moves along with the Earth in
its orbit. The blue line marks a fixed point in space at which the two planets
are initially in alignment (in this case, at inferior conjunction). Note that
all the major planets revolve around the Sun in an anti-clockwise sense when
seen from above the Earth's North pole. The
number of days elapsed (since inferior conjunction) apply specifically to Venus;
note that by the time Venus reaches inferior conjunction for the second time,
the Earth has completed just over 1˝ orbits - hence the synodic
period of 584 days. The orbits are not shown
to scale.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Astro/Naked-Eye-Planets/Planet-Movements.htm
Animated Venus Inferior Conjunction Figure 10
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and named after the Roman goddess Venus. A terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet", as the two are very similar in
size and bulk composition. Although all planets' orbits are elliptical, Venus's orbit is the closest to circular, with an eccentricity of less than 1%. As Venus is closer
to the Sun than the Earth, it always appears in roughly the same direction from
Earth as the Sun (the greatest elongation is 47.8°), so on Earth it can
usually only be seen a few hours before sunrise or a few hours after sunset.
However, when at its brightest, Venus may be seen
during the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen
both day and night (the other being the Moon). It is sometimes referred to as
the "Morning Star" or the "Evening Star", and when it is visible in
dark skies it is by far the brightest star-like object in the sky.
The cycle between one maximum elongation and the next lasts 584 days. After
these 584 days, Venus is visible in a position 72 degrees away from the
previous one. Since 5 * 584 = 2920, which is equivalent to 8
* 365 Venus returns to the same point in the sky every 8 years (minus two leap
days). This was known as the Sothis cycle in ancient
Venus has a very slow retrograde rotation, meaning that, unlike with most
planets, the direction of rotation (around its axis) is the opposite of its
orbital rotation (around the Sun). The very slow rotation means that the
distinction between the Sidereal day (rotation relative to the stars)
and the Solar day (relative to the Sun) is very significant.
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The pentagram has long been associated with the
planet Venus and the worship of the goddess Venus, or her equivalent. It is most
likely to have originated from the observations of prehistoric astronomers.
When viewed from Earth, the planet Venus plots a completely
perfect pentagram shape around the Sun every eight years, returning to
its starting point after a forty year cycle.
Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the
Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have
been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third
brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. The Maasai people in
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Its symbol is the sign also used in
biology for the female sex, a stylized representation of the goddess Venus's
hand mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath (Unicode: ♀). The Venus symbol also
represents femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for copper. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a circle
(representing spirit) above a cross (representing matter).
The association with sex and femininity is supposed to relate to the period of
266 days between the conjunction and maximum elongation of Venus, which
corresponds more or less to the length of human pregnancy.
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The Antediluvian Calendar presents two-edged spiritual sword of God. On the left side of Judeo-Christianity are such topics as astrology, mythology and the broader terms concerning cosmology. A wide range of interpretation exists from strictly puritan ideals to liberal groups where just about anything goes. Divergent views can invite extremism, cult worship and express distortion of fundamental beliefs. Some religions intentionally masquerade hidden character with glistening perfection.
Toward the more conservative disciplines found within Judeo-Christianity, bitter opposition effectively denounces worship forms that suggest any connection with celestial objects. Judaism is a collective way to preserve historical knowledge and divest worship from fixed representations of God. One eternal Creator stands apart from anything else. He rules over man and women, the animals and the abode called Earth. Natural phenomena that serve as calendar instruments, like the sun, moon and Venus only glorify His amazing handiwork. Judaism vehemently opposes any hint of idol worship, including planets or stars. Any calendar enumerations are simply another aspect of created things.
Calendars allow
us to divide time into smaller parcels that we can share and understand. No matter how big the number of years gets,
we cannot grasp the concept of eternal, infinite time. We accurately count days, years and cycles to
assign time stamps. Yet, time exists
measurable and quantifiable. Christian
adherents largely follow Jewish underpinnings with realizations focused upon
the New Covenant through Jesus Christ.
Gregorian chronology before the Roman solar calendar is a slippery
slope, fraught with complication. Any
discussion turns out to be an arduous path.
Extending Gregorian dating to an accepted epoch between 8,000 B.C.E. and
4,500 B.C.E. originates Genesis near
Science is a third leg of
the tripod that ultimately features hero and victim. The information explosion is a limitless
frontier, unimpeded by either geographic boundaries or sovereign
countries. Equipment and expertise
continues to improve lives the world over.
Developments in one skill carry over to different arenas. Breakthroughs in medicine and electronics
disseminate globally via the Internet.
Technical science has a reputation for overlooking safety, security and the environment. Adverse recollections abound that purport technology gone awry. Various ethics and socially acceptable customs favor the friendliest and most beneficial advancements. Archeology rarely is responsible for future techniques. Calendars and time are the next exception. Discovering supernatural intervention is the challenge for the new millennium. The fact remains that all calendars need a framework that is dependent on stellar and planetary motion. Calendar science is a compilation that bridges accepted information with religious interests. People benefit by knowing God: past, present, and future.
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Lines blur between ancient astronomy, or the appropriate label archeo-astronomy, when one delves into Mesopotamian and Biblical cosmology. Five successive helical risings of Venus map the remnant traces of the occult five-pointed pentagram. The last bright star at night is seen at five slightly varied positions over 8-years before being lost to full daylight. Five dawn heliacal risings have given rise to the ancient astrological symbol. The Antediluvian Calendar carries the primary 105-year age with all the stigma of representative pentagrams through history. Venus correlates with masculine/feminine genders of pagan worship, dependent upon culture.
Delving deeply into human antiquities does expose dormant knowledge. Forbidden idols and deities often symbolized calendar segments. Intention or accident may ignite distinct possibilities that instantaneously change both past and future. Chain reactions potentially can strip any event, people or thing from history. Alternate realities suddenly may occur or disappear. We stir cauldrons in the past to deliberately reach heavenly stars. Our place as mortal, fleshy people is to fear the eternal Lord.
The primary 105-year age of Seth is the candid guide to the 104-year Venus Cycle. Association of Baal, or phonetic Bel, and his female Astarte/Ishtar fertility consort, centers with astrological fervor upon Babylonian and Assyrian calendar worship. Standing stones and sacred pillars were physical artifacts designed to let observers sight heavenly bodies. A myriad of stories reveal the Sun, Moon and Venus were the Mesopotamian triad of astral worship. In ‘heaven and on earth’ was the typical feeling that matched Seth’s 105-year primary age solar-side time split, that interacts with the 400-year-Baktun-cycle, with 104-years according to the Venus Round. Venus sets forth the starlight-side time split inherent to mythical literature.
The second derivative solar-side
time split by Cainan continues from first derivative solar-side time split of
Seth. Demonstrated use of the Ethiopic
364-day-and-year single term involves the 104-year Venus Cycle. Cainan is the third generation following Adam
and correlates the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age as the second derivative
solar-side time split. Cainan’s daylight primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age
calculates by advancing solar-side separation time from the primary
105-Tun-year age of Seth. The same
method used for Seth's solar-side primary age time derives the primary age of
Cainan.
Solar-side separation times of Seth and Cainan build one 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle independently of the 360-year-Tun-cycle started by Adam and Enos. Consistent units of 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years maintain the proper sequence. Three different cases of 260-year-Tzolken-cycles show tolerances for the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Cainan. A 360- year-Tun-cycle, the 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle (Enochian) and the more familiar 365-year-solar-cycle span the range that establishes the number of 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years. The 360-year-Tun-cycle applies 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years.
Three options for analyzing Cainan’s primary age are the 360-Tun-year, 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle and the 365-year-solar-cycle. The 360-Tun-year cycle and the 365-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle alternatives check for maximum and minimums in evaluating the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year of Cainan. Final 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year answers closely approximate the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age. The 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle prevails as the optimum choice. Whole number integers fit the principles of conversion discovered for Seth. A 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle choice gives the correct and proper answer for the Cainan’s primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age.
Note that primary age solar-side separations of Seth and later, Cainan alternate with periods of the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle. The first step is to convert the primary 105-year age of Seth into 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years. Converting the primary age of Seth from 105-Tun-years of 360-days follows the earlier outlined procedure. Equation 51 multiplies 105-years by a 360-day-Tun-year for 37,800-days in the primary age of Seth. Dividing by the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year constant converts the primary age of Seth to the minimum number 145.4-Tzolken-sacred years (Eqn. 52).
The converted maximum number of Seth’s Tzolken-sacred-year age computes by replacing 105-Tun-years with 105-solar-years of 365-days each. The same process multiplies 105-solar-years by 365-day-solar-years for 38,325-days (Eqn. 53). Dividing by 260-day-Tzolken-sacred years answers the maximum number of 147.4-Tzolken-sacred-years for the converted primary age of Seth (Eqn. 54). Cainan’s primary age depends on the conversion for Seth.
The transition pattern from Adam to Seth derives the second solar-side time split by Cainan. The minimum solution of 145.4-Tzolken-sacred-years contrasts the maximum 105-solar-year conversion to 147.4-Tzolken-sacred-years. Seth’s converted solar-side age falls between 145.4 and 147.4-Tzolken-sacred-years to complete the 365-solar-year-cycle.
Assimilated
minimum and maximum values for Seth’ primary age double and then subtract from
either the respective 360-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle or
365-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle. Doubling 145.4-Tzolken-sacred years mandates the answer,
290.8-Tzolken-sacred-years subtract from 360-Tzolken-sacred-years (Eqn.
55). A 360-year-Tun-cycle of
260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years minus 290.8-Tzolken-sacred-years results in
69.2-Tzolken-sacred-years for the primary age of Cainan (Eqn. 56). The minimum value for Cainan’s
converted primary age estimates 69.2-Tzolken-sacred-years
A maximum calculated age for Cainan’s
primary age reckons according to a 365-year-solar-cycle. The case of 365-Tzolken-sacred-years matches
a 365-day-solar-year. The move from Seth’s
solar-side time split to Cainan’s solar-side time
split doubles 147.4-Tzolken-sacred-years to get 294.8-Tzolken-sacred-years
(Eqn. 57). Subtracting
294.8-Tzolken-sacred-years from 365-Tzolken-sacred-years approximates
70.2-Tzolken-sacred-years for the primary age of Cainan (Eqn. 58). Seth’s use of 365-Tzolken-sacred-years
subtracts the converted and doubled, 147.4-Tzolken-sacred-year primary
age. Converting two segments of
105-solar-years having 365-days each doubles the converted primary age of Seth. The maximum estimated
70.2-Tzolken-sacred-years are approximately equal to 70-Tzolken-sacred-years
(Eqn. 59).
The 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle having 364-Tzolken-sacred-years falls between minimum and maximum values and lands on whole number integers. Equation 60 multiplies 105-Ethiopic-years by 364-days each to get 38,220-days in the converted primary age of Seth (Eqn. 60). Exactly 147-Tzolken-sacred-years are computed from 105-Ethiopic-years of 364-days each (Eqn.61).
The second derivative solar-side and starlight time split describes the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Cainan. Twice Seth’s primary age, plus Cainan’ primary age is the total 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle that uses 364-Tzolken-sacred-years. The top of figure 5 represents Seth’s 147-Tzolken-sacred-years in green with the identical 147-Tzolken-sacred-year portion in blue. The 105-year primary age of Seth is doubled to get 210-years. The converted result likewise doubles to achieve 294-Tzolken-sacred-years (Eqn.62). Subtracting 294-Tzolken-sacred-years from 364-Tzolken-sacred-years leaves the proven answer of 70-Tzolken-sacred-years for the primary age of Cainan (Eqn.63). Cainans’s primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age is depicted in red at the bottom of fig. 10. The same procedure details the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle and subtracts 210-Ethiopic-years to arrive precisely at Cainan’s 70-Tzolken-sacred-years.
The solar-side 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle completes with two passes of Seth’s 105-Ethiopic-year primary age, plus Cainan’s 50-Ethiopic-year primary age. Twice Seth’s primary age is 210-Ethiopic-years. The 365-year-solar-cycle is the equivalent full conversion to 260-day-Tzolken-years. Cainan’s primary age 70-Tzolken-sacred-years returns via reverse conversion back to 50-Ethiopic-Years that have 364-days each. The calculated 70-Tzolken-sacred-years are multiplied by 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-years for 18,200-days in the primary age of Cainan (Eqn. 60). Equation 61 divides Cainan’s 18,200-days primary age by 364-day-Ethiopic-years to find Cainan’s primary age. The solar-side 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle concludes with 210-Ethiopic-years that add with Cainan’s 50-Ethiopic-years to finalize two equivalent solar-side cycles: a 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle and the 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle.
The 364-day-Ethiopic-year neatly fits the Antediluvian Calendar. Closer inspection of the 364-day-Ethiopic-year reveals interesting numerical matching facts concerning this marvelous early calendar system. The primary 105-year age of Seth utilizes a 360-day-lunar-side in conjunction with the 4-day-solar-side time split that follows. The 100-days-and-years single term generates exactly 400-days of difference between 100-years of 360-days and 364-days. Concentric circles of time replicate significant patterns arising from the 400-day-and-year-single term. The 400-year-Baktun-cycle acquires further meaning related the Ethiopic 364-day-and-year-single term. Ultimately, the 800-year-Generaion-Cycle is the longest instrument gained from the Ethiopic 364-day-and-year single term calendar.
The calendar toolbox adapts to include the following items for the subsequent Antediluvian Calendar discussion.
- 400-days result from 100-years times 4-days solar-side time
split
- 400-days result from 400-years times the last, 1-day of
365-day-solar-year.
- 400-years is lunar/solar separation time and written as
400-l/s-years for each 400-year-Baktun-cycle.
- Multiple 400-year-Baktun-cycles are counted from 1 to 13 in the Antediluvian Calendar Great Cycle.
- Relevant secondary age 400-l/s-year midpoint positions are l/s-years in this Holy of Holies work.
- Cumulative secondary age 800-year Generation Cycles totals are
l/s-years in the Holy of Holies.
Integral
calculations exist for the dual calendars of the 260-day-Tzolken-year and the
364-day-Ethiopic-year. One 50-year
Jubilee cycle is equivalent to 70-Tzolken-sacred-years. Scattered mention of 70-years indicates this
finite period had relevance to predefined terms of leadership. Government positions and priesthood stations
were limited according to 70-year increments.
The 70-day-and-year single term encompasses 70-Tzolken-sacred-years that
include the primary age of Cainan.
The
ancient Egyptian Calendar began anew every 1460-year Sothic Cycle according to the
solar Julian Calendar year of 365-days. The Egyptian Calendar was the preceding solar
calendar system to the Julian Calendar. Sothic Cycle dating accrues 1,461-years in
each cycle of the Egyptian Calendar (Hagen, 1996, para.
3). Annual
heliacal rising of the star Sirius meant the appearance just before dawn on the
eastern horizon and the impending
Resurrection
occurring near the summer solstice during a 364-day-calendar-year attaches
connotations within the larger 1,461-year Sothic Cycle. Disappearance of Sirius beneath the western
horizon is symbolic for the death of the King.
Mummification ritual lasting 70-days was essentially part of the funeral
ceremony that imitated the god returning.
Osirus’ resurrection coincided with the star’s return every year at
heliacal rising. Deceased Pharaohs were brought back to life through Osirus.
The same
principles were in place for the helical risings of Venus every 8-years in the Sun Kingdoms’ religion. Quetzecoatl, the
famous Aztec mythological figurehead, assumes his rightful place as the supreme
deity. He was the Feathered Serpent that
revived the dried bones of old dead by sprinkling his blood on them. Quetzecoatl or
Venus was the morning star god of vegetation and fertility. Life and the visible starlight opposed death,
darkness and invisibility below the horizon.
Lunar/solar
math applied here involves the process of numerically matching
70-days-and-years in a single term. The
70-days-and-years single term combines with 70-Tzolken-sacred-years and
associated conceptions about the underworld.
The Antediluvian Calendar doubles the primary age, expressed either as
364-day-Ethipian-years or 260-day-Tzolken-sacred years. A 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle, consisting of
364-Tzolken-sacred years, has 294-Tzolken-sacred-years subtracted in equation 63. The result is the matched
70-Tzolken-sacred-year era for the primary age of Cainan.
Venus and
Sirius have intervals of absent starlight from the gods. Venus has a lapse of about 50-days that was occasionally recorded by the Mayans with deviations
lasting up to 90-days. The Mayans
divided the 8-days inferior conjunction into two separate periods of 4-days
each. The second 4-day part had
extraordinary meaning in that Quetzecoatl was bony,
or some legends alternatively claim he brought the bones of the dead back to
life when he resurrected as a bright morning star. The latter anecdote closely matches Egyptian
beliefs regarding Sirius reviving the Pharaohs following his 70-day lapse
before heliacal rising every year. The
last 4-days after 360-days every year are an important clue to Sothic dating.
Dr.
Simpson (2005, para.2.) includes a translated portion of the cuneiform script
at his website that reads:
“In the month Nisan, on the twenty-seventh day, Ninsianna disappeared in the west; she remained absent from the sky for seven days; in the month Ayar, on the third day, Ninsianna appeared in the east …”.
Ninsianna is the
cosmic deity Venus. The month, Nisan was
followed by the month Adar. An 8-day
period of inferior conjunction, as opposed to the written 7-day is a distinct
possibility when we consider Babylonian and Jewish sources traditionally
changed the days at sunset within the sacred 7-day week.
Assyrian
records provide vital traces defining Mesopotamian chronology back to about
1200 B.C.E. There are several cuneiform
tablets dating from the 7-8 century B.C.E.
The copied
text of the cuneiform tablet below (figure 11) is from earlier tablets that
probably date from the 16th century B.C.E.
Babylonian chronology is a topic prone to scholarly debate. A high, middle and low chronology currently
exists depending on whom you read (Roaf, 1990, p 123).
By the 8th century B.C.E., Babylonian and Assyrian priest-astronomers
had charted the heliacal risings of five planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter were always
important to astrology and mythology.
Venus Tablet of Ammizaduga
Figure 11
Venus Tablet of Ammizaduga Figure 11
The cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus is currently part of the British Museum collections.
Excavated
by A.H. Layard
Ancient
Near East Department ANE K.160
References to the Inanna/Eanna
Temple, the residence of Ishtar, support opinions
favoring the Mayan 8-year Venus cycle and the 104-year Venus Round calendar
tools in
Many other tablets exist such as the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ from ancient
Worship of the planetary deities is positive before the Deluge.
The translation of Tablet I by
Kovacs (1998) indicates Anu, King of the
Sumerian-Babylonian pantheon and god of heaven and earth, taught Gilgamesh the
Creation story before the Deluge.
“Anu granted him the totality of
knowledge of all.
He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden,
he brought
information of (the time) before the Flood.”
Multiple
104-year Venus Rounds arrange the later primary ages for the Antediluvian Calendar
system. Two 52-year Calendar Rounds make
one 104-year Venus Round that identifies with Biblical Seth’s 105-year primary age.
Since 5-Venus Rounds of 584-day each make 8-Haab-solar-years, or
2,920-days, there is a natural connection with the Egyptian Calendar. O’Sirus, meaning
‘of Sirius lore,’ has obvious roots manifest with heliacal risings. Sirius sojourns in the underworld 70-days
between heliacal setting and the next heliacal rising during the course of one
365-day-Haab-solar-year. Planet Venus
shares the Mayan god name Kukulakan and
later, Quetzecoatl.
Earthbound viewers cannot see Quetzecoatl
during two separate invisible times.
Venus is elapsed for 8-days on the near side of the sun and for 50-days
on the far side of the sun during an 8-Haab-solar-year orbit. Nearly identical mythology regarding the
afterlife and resurrection agree.
Jewish
and Ethiopic annual calendars branched from the trunk line 364-day base. Supplementary 104-year Venus Round
measurements permit adapting the 364-day unit to the Sun Kingdoms calendar
system. Architecture at the Chicten Itza ceremonial center in
the heart of the
The Pyramid – El Castillo Figure 12
The Pyramid – El Castillo Figure 12
Introducing the 364-day-and-year single term together with the 104-year Venus-Round brings revelation. Jewish, Ethiopic, Egyptian and Sun Kingdoms’ Calendar systems utilize the 364-day annual calendar base and the Venus Round together in o