The sculptured Dendera zodiac is an Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and the Libra (the scales) with Roman era enclosure walls a temple to Isis. The date for the relief is 50 BC, since it shows the stars and planets in the positions they would have been seen at that date.
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) deciphered the names of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and Domitian on the ceiling of Dendera's temple, and placed the zodiac in the era of Roman rule over (Upper) Egypt. All the land on the eastern side of the Nile; Arabia. Babylonian astronomy and numerology by Chaldeans developed in Mesopotamia as the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
Dendera is located 60km north of Luxor on Ancient Thebes on the west bank of the Nile opposite the provincial town of Qena. The Valley of the Kings stands on the west bank of the Nile, across from Luxor... Ancient Egyptian art forms of the lower Nile Valley are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of human beings and nature, and provided company to the deceased in the "other world."
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) deciphered the names of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and Domitian on the ceiling of Dendera's temple, and placed the zodiac in the era of Roman rule over (Upper) Egypt. All the land on the eastern side of the Nile; Arabia. Babylonian astronomy and numerology by Chaldeans developed in Mesopotamia as the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
Dendera is located 60km north of Luxor on Ancient Thebes on the west bank of the Nile opposite the provincial town of Qena. The Valley of the Kings stands on the west bank of the Nile, across from Luxor... Ancient Egyptian art forms of the lower Nile Valley are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of human beings and nature, and provided company to the deceased in the "other world."
First Julian Chapel
The Hathor temple chapel at Dendera was begun in the late Ptolemaic period; about 300 hundred years after the Roman annexation of Macedon and Babylon. The temple's pronaos was added by the emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus (Tiberius Claudius Nero). The principal synagogue was in Roman times, the Talmud.In 25 BC, at the age of fourteen, Julia married her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcell. Agrippa and Julia's marriage resulted in five children: Gaius Caesar, Vipsania Julia (also known as Julia the Younger), Lucius Caesar, Vipsania Agrippina or Agrippina Major (mother of Emperor Caligula), and Agrippa Postumus (a posthumous son). From June 20 BC to the spring of 18 BC, Agrippa was governor of Gaul, and it is likely that Julia followed him to the country on the other side of the Alps. After the death of Agrippa, Augustus sought to promote his stepson Tiberius.
Tiberius I would later marry Augustus' daughter Julia the Elder Augustus and even later be adopted by Augustus and by this act he became a Julian. Mark Antony's ten year old son Marcus Antonius Antyllus was to marry Julia, then two years old but 31 BC, at the Battle of Actium, Octavian and Agrippa defeated Antony and his mistress, Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
Caligula the 4th Caesar
Augustus to Nero
Caligula's father, Germanicus, was the adopted son of emperor Tiberius. Caligula invented the idea that his mother Agrippina was the product of an incestuous union between Julia the Elder and Augustus. Agrippina and Caligula's brother, Nero Caesar, were exiled from the Roman Empire. The adolescent Caligula was sent to live first with his great-grandmother, and Tiberius' mother, Livia. Following Livia's death, he was sent to live with his grandmother Antonia.In 31, Caligula was remanded to the personal care of Tiberius on Capri, where he lived for six years and was spared by Tiberius. When Tiberius died on March 16, 37, the titles of the Principate were left to Caligula and Tiberius' own grandson, Gemellus. Caligula accepted the powers of the Principate as conferred by the Senate and entered Rome on March 28 amid a crowd that hailed him as "our baby" and "our star," among other nicknames. Caligula is the first emperor who was admired by everyone in "all the world, from the rising to the setting sun."
During the Western Expansion of his campaigns, Caligula began appearing in public dressed as various gods and demigods such as Hercules, Mercury, Venus and Apollo. At Syracuse, he repaired the city walls and the temples of the gods and had planned to rebuild the palace of Polycrates at Samos, to finish the temple of Didymaean Apollo at Ephesus and to found a city high up in the Alps. Caligula completed the temple of Augustus and the theatre of Pompey and began an amphitheatre beside the Saepta. In 40, Caligula expanded the Roman Empire into Mauretania (a client kingdom of Rome ruled by Ptolemy of Mauretania) and made a significant attempt at expanding into Britannia and his feud with the Roman Senate.
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Mayan Birth of Venus
August 3113 BC, by the Mayan Prophecies as the start of the Long Count
Ancient Sumerian mythology implies that there is a large planet Nibiru on an elliptical orbit, which enters the solar system every 3,600 years. If the Sun moved 180 degrees to the other side of the earth, the earth must flow into a reverse orbit of the sun. The Sun Kingdom's Calendars track five Venus cycles of 584-days each over in 8-Haab-solar-year multiples of 365 days.The strongest pillar connecting the Mayan Calendar system to the aforementioned Antediluvian Calendar is the transit pathway and surviving mythology surrounding the planet Venus. The Mayans watched Venus (or Seth) progress in this manner 13 times, which culminated with one 104-year Venus Round.
Ancient observers noticed the relative positions of Earth, Venus and the Sun recur according to a schedule. The time between two successive conjunctions of planet Venus with the sun is a synodic interval lasting about 1.6 Earth years or 584 cyclical Venus days. These days in such Earth years are such that Venus orbits the sun 13 times and completes five synodic periods in 8 years, or 5 evening and morning star circuits, while the earth orbits the sun 8 times. The true orbit of Venus around the sun is 225-days and passes between the earth and the sun every 584-days or 5 times in 8 years.
Mayan Calendar Link List
- Mayan calendar and prophecies
- The Maya understood 17 different Calendars based on the Cosmos. Lucky for us we only need to work with three of these calendars. The calendars that are most important to beings of earth are the Haab, the Tun-Uc and the Tzolk'in. The Tzolk'in is the Sacred calendar of the Maya and is based on the cycles of the Pleiadies. The cycle of the Pleiadies uses 26,000 years, but is reflected in the calendar we are using by encompassing 260 days. It uses the sacred numbers 13 and 20. The 13 represents the numbers and 20 represents the sun/glyphs.
- Time Emits Ancient Bible and Zodiac Calendar Research
- The Calendars of Creation Library Series includes web page(s) material for e-book. Ages of Adam, Holy of Holies, are the two main ebooks concerning the begat genealogy of the Antediluvian Patriarchs from Genesis Ch. 5. Christian Era Calendars and World Calendar Proposal are short works.
- HyperFlight Multi-Pointed Stars In The Heavens
- Earth and Venus draw a star on the canvas of space. Combined, Earth and Venus make a pentagram (pentacle) producing orbit -- actually a five pointed star with two rings for orbits. Earth and Mars create eight sided star of the octagon. The ratio is 8/5 -- for every eight Venus orbits (cycles), our Earth completes five orbits (years). Orbit interlock allows Venus and Earth to become effectively a single planet in one orbit.
- Aztec Calendar: Today in the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec Calendar of Mexico.
- Aztec Calendar. The date according to the tonalpohualli, the sacred calendar of the Mexica, the Aztecs of Mexico. Gives a reading of the significance of the day and the relevant gods or protectors.
- Theban Mapping Project
- The largest Egyptological website on the internet, offering complete coverage of the Valley of the Kings in images, text and maps. Produced by the Theban Mapping Project and directed by Kent Weeks
The Ancient Egyptian calendar
Lunar cycles of around 30 days and on the heliacal rising of the star Sirius.
In ancient Egypt a spiritual reciprocity (new year) existed between the people and the land. The round zodiac of Dendera is a star map, portraying the heavens overhead at a certain time.
The Dendera Zodiac is a planisphere or map of the stars on a plane projection, showing the 12 constellations of the zodiacal band forming 36 decans of ten days each, and the planets. These decans are groups of first-magnitude stars. On an inner circle, one finds constellations, showing the signs of the zodiac. The celestial arch is represented by a disc held up by four pillars of the sky in the form of women, between which are inserted falcon-headed spirits. On the first ring, 36 spirits symbolize the 360 days of the Egyptian year.
The Dendera Zodiac is a planisphere or map of the stars on a plane projection, showing the 12 constellations of the zodiacal band forming 36 decans of ten days each, and the planets. These decans are groups of first-magnitude stars. On an inner circle, one finds constellations, showing the signs of the zodiac. The celestial arch is represented by a disc held up by four pillars of the sky in the form of women, between which are inserted falcon-headed spirits. On the first ring, 36 spirits symbolize the 360 days of the Egyptian year.
Cosmogenesis
First Antediluvian Calendar
The Moon, Sun, Sirius, Venus and Jupiter were all key celestial players in this Antediluvian Calendar system.
The Mayan Calendar Round of 52 years accomplishes intercalary time with a dual year system. The 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year was part of a 365-day-solar-year. Alongside the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year, a 360-day-Tun-year kept track of civil functions. The sun stone also called the Aztec calendar. The sacred Aztec calendar is properly called the Eagle Bowl.The Chaldean Numerology method also differs in that it goes by the name you're most known by. Astral theology, which gave planetary gods an important role began with the Sumerians. The traditional Jewish lunar/solar calendar measures differences between the moon and sun to intercalate about 209-days over 19-years. The Mayans adapted the same reasoning for a 20-year lunar/solar cycle and embedded the extra 210-days using a different method. Two 400-year-Baktun-cycles add together to produce a repeating 800-year Generation Cycle.
On the other side of the world, Mesopotamian scribes were recording Mayan calendar math in what we now call the Holy Bible. Information gained from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the three Book(s) of Enoch support the idea of numerical matching.
The Mayan Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since August 11, 3114 BCE.
(Long Count New Year is December 21, 2012)
2012 is when the Great Cycle from August 3114 BC ends.
1976 to 2048: 72 Year Cycle
Kukulcan, (Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent), was the symbol of a sun-Pleiades-zenith conjunction and Mesoamerican art similar to the Solar 'Ahau' glyph of the Maya used for the Pleiades star cluster. When the Toltec people moved to Chichen Itza, they merged their own zenith cosmology with the Mayan system, and the result was the Pyramid of Kukulcan so that every year, on Spring Equinox, the afternoon sun causes a shadow play so that it appears that a huge serpent is descending from the sky, down the pyramid.
The winter solstice end-point will be 4 Ahau in the Tzolkin calendar, meaning Lord/Sun, and 3 Kankin in the Haab calendar, which means 'snake-day'. The moving snake on the Pyramid is an annual reminder of a conjunction of the zenith sun with the Pleiades over Chichen Itza. The mythical birth of Venus over the horizon is associated with the start of the Great Cycle.
The dawn rising of Sirius heralded the flooding of the Nile and the beginning of a new year, and the meridian transits of Orion correlated to the First Time and Last Time of Osiris.
The winter solstice end-point will be 4 Ahau in the Tzolkin calendar, meaning Lord/Sun, and 3 Kankin in the Haab calendar, which means 'snake-day'. The moving snake on the Pyramid is an annual reminder of a conjunction of the zenith sun with the Pleiades over Chichen Itza. The mythical birth of Venus over the horizon is associated with the start of the Great Cycle.
The dawn rising of Sirius heralded the flooding of the Nile and the beginning of a new year, and the meridian transits of Orion correlated to the First Time and Last Time of Osiris.
What Will Happen in 2012?
The Earth (365) and Venus (243) have a common point of contact.
The 13 Heavens and 9 Hells were each 52 years long (1,144 years total). The Mayan calendar is divided into Seven Ages of Man. The fourth epoch ended in August 1987. The Mayan calendar (Sun of Earthquake), comes to an end on Sunday, December 23, 2012.
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