Sphinx to Dendera: New Kingdom Heliotrope


	Sphinx to Dendera: New Kingdom Heliotrope

Moonowler

3-18-2008 9:00 PM

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Moonowler says:

A lion constellation is depicted on the astronomical ceilings of pharaonic tombs of the New Kingdom, but that lion is not Leo.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffff99;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/29f72a6d-eccd-43ba-8072-cf4cfc003d84/10C4115E-4C26-4503-9D87-C469DE5BC53A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html" href="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.antiquityofman.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">Certainly, by the New Kingdom (1570-1070 B.C.) Egyptian pharaohs believed the 
Sphinx was a solar god and gave it names that expressed that character. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">The monumental astronomy associated with the Sphinx is completely consistent 
with what we know about ancient Egyptian religion and Egypt's symbolism of 
power. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.antiquityofman.com/img/D9EBB457-B27D-48AB-834F-C5BA94B38E32" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">Equating the Sphinx with Leo, identifying the Nile River with the Milky Way,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">the equinox-aligned Sphinx is supposed to represent Leo, the vernal-equinox Sun 
should have been in the stars of Leo, but in 2500 B.C. it was in Taurus, the 
Bull. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">Orion should have been on the meridian when the Sphinx primordially stared at 
equinox sunrise. However, Orion was still east of the meridian at equinox 
sunrise in 2500 B.C.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">10,500 B.C. In that era, the vernal-equinox Sun was in Leo, and at sunrise Orion 
was not only on the meridian</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiquityofman.com/Krupp_Sphinx_Blinks.html">Dendera, however, does not tell us the Sphinx is Leo. In fact, the zodiacal Lion 
was not even an Egyptian constellation.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/10C4115E-4C26-4503-9D87-C469DE5BC53A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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