Tisi, this is a marvellous legend, thanks for sharing it.

As always, with things Egyptian, I have the feeling that the story is hiding a deeper meaning in plain sight. The numbers will be the key.

360, 365, 72, 30, 29, 12, 5

If that turns out to be next week's Lottery Prize Numbers, I might have to start buying tickets.

Meanwhile, that - http://www.occultphysics.com/Ancient-Eg ... onomy.html - reminds me how wonderful Kepler's Harmonic Law truly is. No wonder that the Musica Universalis (or Music of the Spheres) is such a beautiful thing.

Coincidentally, on Radio 4 now!

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the music of the spheres, the elegant and poetic idea that the revolution of the planets generates a celestial harmony of profound and transcendent beauty. In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the young Lorenzo woos his sweetheart with talk of the stars: “There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.” The idea of music of the spheres ran through late antiquity and the medieval period into the Renaissance and its echoes could be heard in astrology and astronomy, in theology, and, of course, in music itself. Influenced by Pythagoras and Plato, it was discussed by Cicero, Boethius, Marcello Ficino and Johannes Kepler It affords us a glimpse into minds for which the universe was full of meaning, of strange correspondences and grand harmonies. With Peter Forshaw, Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London; Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Angela Voss, Director of the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, Canterbury

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c1fct

And today the jolly Independent tells us that the earth hums to itself.

'The pressure of the waves on the seafloor generates seismic waves that cause the Earth to oscillate, said Fabrice Ardhuin, a senior research scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

The continuous waves produce sounds lasting from 13 to 300 seconds. They can be heard by a relatively small proportion of people – who are sensitive to the hums – and also by seismic instruments.'

They have helpfully printed a photo of the humming earth, just in case we weren't sure perhaps.



No sound files of the hum though.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 82111.html

Perhaps stone circles and the like were loudspeakers to help people listen to messages from mother earth?

Like this?
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-oce ... 12715.html

Or this?



'fig.7 - Keating (left) and Watson with their equipment at Stonehenge. They mapped how sound could travel through the monument, passing unhindered along certain axes but being blocked in certain other areas. In the process, they noted that the inner surfaces of some of the large upright sarsen stones had been slightly hollowed, creating concave surfaces that could “focus” the sound in certain parts of the monument.'

http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/

This -
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/ca ... cient.html
- is very frustrating.

In the eighth century B.C.E., civilizations all over the world either discarded or modified their old 360 day calendars. The 360 day calendars had been in use for the greater part of a millennium. In many places, month lengths immediately after that change were not fixed, but were based instead upon observation of the sky.

Well, yes, but why? What had happened?

Are we to understand that a number of calendars went wonky, or gave up using a solar calendar and started using lunar calendars?

I am moved by the concluding words of Chiefio here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/12/1 ... th-months/

It looks to me like there is some significant value to “diversity” of cultures, and of calendaring systems. It helps us to preserve some of our history a bit better and keep a sense of perspective.

It also looks to me like there is a constant of human behaviour where some small part of humanity has a compulsion to dominate others, even if it involves the destruction of much wisdom and knowledge. I fear we are in a similar time, today, as there is clear evidence of powerful forces working to hide simple truths, for their own gain. To destroy ancient wisdom for domination.

It has been known since the Ancient Egyptians that Ra ruled the earth. They did not have a “Gas God”, they had a Sun God.

This is not some light statement! The Egyptian Kingdoms and Empires span 4,000 years (maybe more…). These folks studied their history and kept records. They lived and died based on the Nile floods coming on schedule. They had seen the cyclical nature of nature. Then they were destroyed by the Greeks and Romans. Thousands of years of knowledge lost to the dreams of avarice and brutal stupidity.

Perhaps this time we can stop the New Rome and the New Caesars. Perhaps… In the fullness of time… If not, we can only hope that somewhere will be a modern Ethiopia.

"Sirius Rising" might be the key.

I've suddenly had the notion that the Celtic Cross is symbolic of all this 360-days-in-four-seasons-with-extra-days-in-between.

The circle on the cross is the whole cycle, the "cross" is the intercalendrical days, as added by numerous calendars. With one extra for the extra-special end-of-year knees-up.

The circle on the Celtic cross resembles a ship's wheel as we've discussed. Its 'hole' is reminiscent of an ankh, a portable compass.