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We know that the pyramids are conceived and constructed from the perspective of astronomy.Doesn't this insight seem a bit forced since ancient Egyptian astronomy was not well known?Sirius is one of the few planets associated with the pyramids, but it is precisely this focus on Sirius that makes one feel rather strange.Because, when people want to observe Sirius from the city of Memphis, they can only see it in the vast morning light close to the horizon at the beginning of the flood of the Nile.There is a detailed almanac in Egypt - 421 BC, enough to be confusing!This almanac embarrasses the rise of Sirius (at first appearing as July 19), and determines the annual cycle to be more than 32,000 years.

We admit that the ancient astronomers did not have time to observe the sun, moon and celestial bodies for a long time. Finally, they reached a consensus that all the celestial bodies were in the same place after about 365 days of movement.But isn't it absurd to deduce the first almanac from the data of Sirius?Downright ridiculous!For they deal with the sun and moon much more easily and with more precise results. The Sirian Almanac appears to be a purely hypothetical product, a calculation of probabilities, since indeed it was never able to predict the appearance of the stars: the flooding of the Nile and the associated phenomenon, the appearance of Sirius on the morning-shrouded horizon , purely by chance.The Nile does not flood every year, and the Nile does not always flood on the same day.Why is there a "Sirius Almanac"?There is also an ancient document in this regard again?Are there scriptural sources or promises that were carefully kept secret by the priests of old?

■Pillars that support the sky In their book "The Stone Mill of Amlaite", the Spanish poet Santillana and the professor of Frankfurt University Dai Chengde analyzed the hieroglyphs from the tomb of Pharaoh Unas in ancient Egypt - the Pyramid Sutra Text—a metaphor related to precession found in the text.Using a technical term, they call it "Hamlet's millstone" in the ancient scientific language. This language has, so to speak, nothing in common with the words of the rest of the scriptures. In ancient Egypt, one of the basic thinking tools used in its language was the "cosmic map" of the 4 Gentian Schools

(Cosmic diagram).These 4 Optimus Primes are used to visualize the 4 lines of the worldwide age due to the precessional movement.Astronomers named these four lines "the equinox longitudes of the autumnal equinox, vernal equinox, summer solstice, and winter solstice", and at the same time concluded that they descended from the north pole of the sky and divided the constellation into four large blocks.Every 2160 years as a cycle, the sun will use these constellations as the background, and at the equinoxes of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, as well as the solstices of the summer and winter solstices, it will become inertial and rise on four lines respectively.

In the Pyramid scriptures, many deformations are endowed to the pillar diagram of the universe, and like the large amount of astronomical information contained in many prehistoric myths, the images of precession and the dramatic collapse of the sky are also completely overlapped.In the pyramid scriptures, it was hinted that "the chaos in the sky" means that every 2160 years, the twelve houses of the constellation will have a reincarnation, which will cause a bad luck environment, start the sky mutation, and the earth will also face Catastrophe. We can understand this from this account: create yourself.The former sun god Lei, Yatanmu, was originally the god of all kinds and human beings.Later, he began to age, the dog's head turned silver, the muscles turned golden, and the hair turned navy blue, so humans rebelled against his rule.

For human resistance, the old sun god Yasham (from him, we can think of the bloodthirsty fifth-era sun god Tonatiu among the Aztecs) began his actions to punish the chaos.He decides to wipe out most of humanity.This task he entrusted to Sekhmet to perform.Sekhmet is characterized by a terrifying lion head covered in blood. He sometimes spews fire from his body, and takes pleasure in killing humans. This catastrophe went on for a long time, and it was not until Lei intervened that the "remnant" creatures were finally saved; these rescued people are the ancestors of our human beings.The sun god Lei intervened by launching a great flood. After drinking the flood, the thirsty lioness fell asleep. When she woke up, she had already lost interest in this kind of destruction, and peace came. A devastated world.

At the same time, Ray decided not to interfere with the world he created: "I am very tired of being with humans. I have killed most of them, and the few remaining are not attractive to me." interest in..." After that, the sun god Lei rode on the back of Nut, the goddess of the sky who transformed himself into a cow (Nut existed for the metaphor of the next precession movement) and hit the sky. Later, the cow began to "swirl and tremble because she was too far from the ground." The plot here is very similar to the legend of the Icelandic god Amlodi who crazily rotates the stone mill and makes the shaft tremble.The cow complained to the sun god because of this restless state, so the sun god commanded: "Put my son Shuu under the body of Nut, and become a pillar of the sky to protect me.

The spider exits at the same time as the dusk.Xiu, you put the cow on your head and stabilize the cow's body. "When Hugh finished the above things according to Ray's instructions, soon, "the upper sky and the lower earth were formed." Just as the ancient Egyptologist Sir Wallace Butch wrote in his classic book "The Egyptians" "The Gods of the Egyptians" (The Gods of the Egyptians) said: "The four feet of the cow have since become the four pillars in the four directions of the sky." Sir Wallace Butch, like most scholars, assumes that the "four directions" in the ancient Egyptian tradition are only realistic descriptions, and the so-called "heaven" is the sky above our heads. Nothing else.And the four feet of the cow in the story just mean east, west, north, south and four directions.So far, most ancient Egyptian scholars, like Sir Wallace Butch, believed that the simple-minded priests of Heliopolis really believed that the sky had four corners, which were supported by the four feet of the mother, while Xiu Especially powerful, standing motionless in the center of heaven and earth like a huge pillar, supporting the whole world.

However, with the new discoveries of Professor Santirana and Professor Dai Chengde, it is necessary for us to make new interpretations of these traditional stories.Therefore, the four feet of the heavenly cow became the ancient scientific symbols representing the age division in the precession movement. , autumnal equinox, summer solstice, winter solstice). At the same time, it is even more tempting to speculate on the age described in this storyline... Maybe the cow in the story can remind us of the distant Taurus era.Still, the common-sense distinction between a cow and a Taurus probably wouldn't have fooled the ancient Egyptians, so it's more likely—at least symbolically—that the age of Leo, 10970 B.C. to A.D. None before 8810.This inference is based on the fact that Sekhmet, the goddess who destroys human beings in mythology, is in the form of a lioness.Perhaps a wild lioness would be an apt analogy to the troubled, chaotic beginning of a new century, especially when the Age of Leo coincides with the end of the Ice Age, when the ice melts on a massive scale, When a large number of animals are suddenly extinct and disappear.Even in earthquakes, large-scale floods and abnormal climates, human beings still survived, but the population decreased sharply, and the living space was greatly reduced.

■The unusual double identity not only recognizes precession, but the ancient Egyptians were able to illuminate it in mythology, leading us to believe that they both understood the workings of the solar system better than their contemporaries of other races. Know how to observe the sky.Otherwise, if they really possessed such advanced knowledge of astronomy, they must have taken it seriously and passed it down from generation to generation, making it one of the most important secrets kept by the elite priests of Heliopolis.Presumably, these priests will also pass it on in a very secret way through word of mouth, and pass it on to those who have passed strict selection.And once forced by the times, they can only write these esoteric knowledge into the pyramid scriptures, and they will inevitably present them in the form of metaphors and fables to protect their secrets.Is this impossible?

What is puzzling is that the Pyramid Text, thousands of years before Copernicus and Galileo, explained the motion of the solar system in terms of earthquakes. It is recorded in the scriptures that the sun god Lei sat on an iron throne, surrounded by some gods with lower official positions than him. These gods periodically surround him as his "followers".Likewise, another passage of the inscription states that the dead pharaoh was encouraged to "stand upon the top of the sky divided in two, and weigh the words of the gods, all aged, surrounding Ra." If the elderly gods and guardian gods surrounding Ra referred to in the inscriptions can be proved to be the stars of the solar system, perhaps we can confirm that the writers of the pyramid texts had very advanced astronomical knowledge.Of course, they will also know that the planets revolve around the sun, not the sun revolves around the sun and the earth.But the problem is that we know that no matter the ancient Egyptians, or the Greeks, or even the Europeans before the Renaissance, they have never mastered such advanced astronomical data.But the fact before us is that even before the ancient Egyptian civilization was civilized, these profound astronomical knowledge were recorded in the scriptures.How can we explain this? There is another puzzle related to this, which is related to Sirius.The ancient Egyptians loved to associate Sirius with Isis.Isis is the sister and consort of Osiris and the mother of Horos.There is a passage in the Pyramid scriptures, which is written for Osiris: Your sister Isis has come, you are happy, you love.You put her on top of you... because of the baby, Issus got bigger, like Sept (referring to Sirius).Ho-rus-sept (Ho-rus-sept) was born in the name of the inhabitants of Sept. There may be several interpretations of this passage.But what is most interesting is obviously the hint of her "dual identity" from "Because of having a child, Isers has grown bigger".Not only that, after the child was born, Horos did not leave, but stayed and became a "resident of Sept". An unusual star, Sirius shimmers extraordinarily bright on winter nights in the northern hemisphere.As shown in the pyramid scriptures, it has a double star system identity: what we see is Sirius A.Sirius B surrounds Sirius A, but it is too small to be seen by our naked eyes.American astronomer Alvin Clark (ALvin Clark) discovered its existence with the largest and latest astronomical telescope at that time until 186Z.This is also the first time the world has seen Sirius B.However, how did the writers of the pyramid texts know that Sirius is a dual star system? In response to these questions, American writer Robert Temple (Robevt Temple) published a book "The Mystery of Sirius" in 1976, trying to answer them.He found that the religious beliefs of the Dogon Tribe in West Africa also centered on Sirius. ■The Mystery of Sirius' Color Change The Dogon people who live in the southern mountainous area of ​​Timbuktu, Mali are one of the indigenous peoples in Africa who still maintain their primitive jungle life. Over the centuries, this African tribe has been influenced by Christianity and Islam, but still maintains its unique traditions and detailed myths and legends, which differ from the legends and myths of most other African tribes. It has received the attention of many ethnoscientists. In 1930, two French ethnologists, Marcel Grioller and Jomay Dieteron, went deep into the primitive tribes of Dogan and collected many unique myths and legends.They accidentally discovered that the mystery of the color change of Sirius, which astronomers have debated for a century, found the answer in the myths and legends of the Dogon people. Sirius is one of the brightest stars in the night sky that can be seen with the naked eye, despite being 8.7 light-years — 51 trillion miles — away from Earth.Many ancient astronomical works record that Sirius is crimson, but Sirius is white in the eyes of modern people. Why did the color of Sirius change?This mystery fascinates scientists deeply. The Dogon people told French scientists that Sirius is composed of a large star and a small star. The small star is a black, extremely dense and invisible companion star, which moves around the large star in an elliptical orbit.They also know that the period of motion of a small star is twice that of 100 years. They have passed down from generation to generation that Sirius is the smallest and heaviest star in the sky. There is a kind of luminous metal substance that does not exist on the earth. Suddenly exploded and produced a strong light, and then gradually dimmed.Although the Dogon people can't see this faint companion star with naked eyes, the old people can use their sticks to draw the running routes and various graphics of the two stars on the ground. The Sirius companion star was a hypothesis put forward by the German astronomer Bessel in 1834.He suggested that the tiny wobbles in Sirius' motion were the result of the gravitational pull of a companion star. It was not until 30 years later that American astronomer Clark saw it for the first time.It is a white dwarf star, Sirius and it are entangled with each other for a period of 50 years. Its volume is small, its diameter is slightly equal to that of the earth, its brightness is 1/360 of that of the sun, but its mass is roughly equal to that of the sun, and its density is relatively high, about the size of a cup of tea. The material can weigh up to 12 tons. Temple believes that the Dogon people's knowledge of Tianruo is both detailed and accurate.As we have seen, they also, like us, imagined that Tianruo has an invisible companion star.The Dogon people called this companion star "Guxing".The Dogon called it the Valley Star probably because it is so small that it is almost invisible.According to the Dogon, the Valley Star is made of the heaviest metal known to man, even heavier than iron.This means that the people of Duogang know that Tianruo star B has a great density. The Dogon people also drew many ceremonial pictures about the Sirius system. These paintings show that the Dogon people knew that the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A is elliptical, and Sirius A is at the center.According to Dogon legend, Temple even drew a picture of the wobble orbits of Sirius and the Valley Star, and found it to be strikingly similar to the same kind of picture drawn by modern astronomers for Sirius A and B. resemblance. According to the Dogon people, their ancestors' knowledge about Sirius B was taught by a god named "Ruomo".The Dogon people still have a painting that clearly shows the "god" they believe in descending from the sky on a large spaceship dragging flames and landing on their clan. The Dogon astronomical tradition was not limited to Sirius.They say that Jupiter has 4 moons and Saturn has rings, and they represent these two planets in their diagram. Based on these clues, Temple further digs into the origin of the belief of the Dogon people.His quest for these traditions spans the Sahara and Libya, and ends up in Greece and Egypt in the Mediterranean.In the end, he strongly advocated that the Dogon people finally obtained this high-tech information from the ancient Egyptians through a series of cultural inheritance. Therefore, the key to unraveling the mystery of Uranus must still start from ancient Egypt. ■The distant ancient fog In the scriptures of the pyramids, we can often see a large number of astronomical figures, for example, the sun god who once traveled "several million years" in the dark and airless universe; Sous, the god of wisdom who counts the number of stars and measures on the ground, has a magical power that can make the dead pharaoh live for hundreds of years again; Osiris, the eternal god, has long ruled Or, he spent millions of years traveling.In addition, inexplicable expressions such as "millions of years" and "a million years of millions of years" appear many times in the scriptures, which makes people feel that in ancient Egypt, someone had secretly Touched the long and huge existence of time. We can infer from this that since the writers of the pyramid texts have such a long-term concept of time, they will naturally have not only sophisticated and complicated calendars, but also extremely accurate calendars.Therefore, the ancient Egyptians should have the same complex calendar as the Mayans.But what is strange is that the ancient Egyptians' understanding of the calendar has not only failed to improve with the passage of time, but has made great strides backwards: this makes people feel that although their knowledge system was completed in ancient times, it is still difficult to understand. With the passage of time, knowledge is gradually lost.From the texts of ancient Egypt, we know that the calendar is not only the heritage of the ancient Egyptians, but that they thought this heritage "from the gods".This may just provide a basis for inference. Whether it is the ancient Egyptians or the "gods", they must have spent a lot of time observing astronomical phenomena, especially the observation of Sirius.Ancient Egypt had a very convenient concept of the Sirius cycle calendar, which they believed was given by the gods (the cycle of the ancient Egyptian calendar was 1460 years, and the cycle of the solar calendar was 1461 years). The so-called Sirius cycle means "the cycle in which Sirius rises at the same place as the sun again".During fixed seasons, Sirius disappears from the sky, and then rises again in the eastern sky before the sun rises into the sky and dawn. Calculated from the time, if the mantissa of the decimal point is removed, this period is 365.25 days. What is particularly surprising is that among the 2,000 stars that we can distinguish with the naked eye, only one star rises at the same time as the sun with a period of 365.25 days, which happens to be the "correct movement" of Tianruo star ( Propermotion, the speed at which the planet moves in the universe) and the result of precession.At the same time, in the ancient Egyptian calendar, the day when Sirius rose earlier than the sun was specially designated as New Year's Day.Prior to this, in Heliopolis, the place where the pyramid scriptures were written, the ancient Egyptians had already calculated the coming of New Year's Day, and notified all the temples on the Nile. In the pyramid scriptures, Sirius is named as "Hername of the new gear".There are various indications that the Sirius ephemeris is at least as old as the Pyramid scriptures, and the origins of both are, without exception, shrouded in the distant ancient fog.The most unsolvable mystery among them is, in the ancient times, who observed and recorded the 365.25-day difference between the cycle of the sun and Sirius with such superb scientific and technological knowledge?The French mathematician R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz once said that the cycle of Sirius is "a completely unexpected and unexpected celestial phenomenon". We have nothing but admiration for the scientist who discovered this purely accidental phenomenon. This double star, Sirius, was chosen because it was the only one among countless stars that moved the necessary distance, in the correct direction.So far we still forget that this phenomenon was known to humans as early as 4,000 years ago, and to discover this phenomenon, it is necessary to observe the movement of celestial bodies for a long time. The inference we can get from the pyramid scriptures is: long-term correct observation of the movement of celestial bodies and scientific records are the inheritance of the prehistoric Egyptians through some kind of inheritance. But this brings us another puzzle. ■Ancient source materials Wallace Butch, manager of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum and author of the authoritative dictionary of hieroglyphs, admitted in the year he passed away that there were many difficulties in the study of pyramid scriptures.In the book, many words have unclear meanings... The structure of the article confuses the translator deeply.The completely unknown words in the sentence make the article itself an unsolvable riddle.Our only reasonable guess is that they were for funerals.But it is very obvious that they have been used for less than 100 years. This makes it difficult for us to understand why it was suddenly used in the fifth dynasty and suddenly abandoned at the end of the sixth dynasty. Why is it used for such a short time? The answer may be that the Pyramid Texts are a rare collection of ancient materials that Unas, the last pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, and several successors of the Sixth Dynasty, carved them on the tombstones of their own pyramids in order to The scriptures are preserved forever.Butch thinks that's quite a possibility.He feels that there is evidence that at least some of the original sources are very old: some chapters show that the people responsible for copying the rare books and having them carved on stone tablets by artisans did not understand the texts.The deduction we got is that the priest in charge of copying extracted these insiders from documents of different times and with different contents...Obviously, Butch’s theory is based on the original materials of ancient Egypt .He did not envisage the possibility that the scriptures written by the priests did not come from the original source, but were directly translated from another language to produce the original source of what was later called hieroglyphics.Imagine if the truly original text contained many technical proper nouns, and there were no concepts and objects in ancient Egypt, then these directly translated pyramid scriptures would give people the impression that the text is weird. No wonder.Moreover, if the copying and translation took place at the end of the Sixth Dynasty, it is not difficult to understand why there were no carved pyramid scriptures after that: it was the task of the priests to translate these sacred documents and leave an eternal hieroglyphic record. mission.When this mission is completed, this work will naturally end.