Re: Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 93

Lunisolar calendar of Göbekli Tepe and variants
(4/4)

The Minoan double axe may have been derived
from a calendar figure of the Asherah sanctuary,
as suggested by a pair of carvings on a block
at Knossos: www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr5.GIF

The Middle Helladic variant of the lunisolar
calendar was visualized by a flower of eight
petals and a small circle in the center (rosette
in the center of the Tiryns disc). A Mycenaean
week had nine days, five weeks were a period
of 45 days, represented by a petal, all eight
petals yield 360 days, add the 5 or 6 days of
the small circle in the center and you get a solar
year of 365 and occasionally 366 days. 21
continuous periods of 45 days are 945 days
and correspond to 32 lunations.

The eyes of the Horus falcon were sun and moon.
Seth destroyed the lunar eye. Wise Thoth restored
it. The healed eye was called The Whole One,
and it was represented by the series 1/2 1/4 1/8
1/16 1/32 1/64, or simply '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64.
The sum is not one, not a whole number. Why
then The Whole One? Multiply the Egyptian month
of 30 days by '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64 and you obtain
29 '2 '32 days or 29 days 12 hours 45 minutes,
a whole lunation.

(end of part 4)


Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 92

Lunisolar calendar of Göbekli Tepe and variants
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The lid of a carved ivory box from Safadi, culture
of Beersheba, shows a schematic Asherah
sanctuary from above; on the right side a lower
and an upper rectangle made of dotted lines,
and on the left side a standing and a hanging
triangle, peaks meeting, as possible variants
of the AC CA hieroglyph from Göbekli Tepe
(lying H). A pendant from Ghassoul, culture of
Beersheba, right upper part chipped off, shows
the Asherah sanctuary, along the margin marks
indicating the poles, in the center a schematic
tree, branches pointing upward (as), next to the
tree a cross indicating the altar. A small ivory
disk from Safadi, culture of Beersheba, offers
an interesting calendar variant: nine perforations
along the margin indicate nine periods of 40
days, together 360 days, and the space between
the central pair of perforations the additional
5 or 6 days of a solar year. The ratio of lunations
(l) and periods of 40 days (p) is given by a very
good sequence of additive values (add them in
the way that was forbidden in school), l/p : 4/3
19/14 23/17 42/31 65/48 107/79 * 65/48
42/31 107/79 149/110 256/189.

'Beersheba' means 'well of the divine number
seven' (Cyrus H. Gordon). If the week of Beersheba
had seven days, 135 weeks corresponded to 32
lunations.

(end of part 3, to be continued)

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 91

Lunisolar claendar of Göbekli Tepe and variants
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Sooner or later the lunisolar calendar of Göbekli
Tepe was combined with an astronomical
observatory. Picture a wide river plain in Upper
Mesopotamia with an ideal flat horizon. Mark
the center of the observatory. Draw a circle
around it. Mark north, using the polar star
or the stars near the northern pole of the sky,
then mark all four cardinal directions, and then
all twelve positions of a dial, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 o'clock. Mark them with poles. Sighting
lines provided by these poles allow to observe
the sunrises and sunsets on the equinoxes and
solstices. Mark the center with a decorated pole,
or plant a tree of life, and build an altar next to
the tree of life or decorated pole. Thus you get
an Asherah sanctuary, from AS AAR RAA
meaning upward (as) toward the one composed
of air (aar) and light (raa).

www.seshat.ch/home/halaf2.GIF

(end of part 2, to be continued)

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 90

Lunisolar calendar of Göbekli Tepe and variants
(1/4)

A year has 12 months of 30 days, plus 5 and
occasionally 6 days, while 63 periods of 30 days
yield 1,890 days and correpsond to 64 lunations.
(Theoretical lunation 29 days 12 hours 45 minutes,
actual lunation 29 d 12 h 44 m 2.9 s, average
modern value from 1989, difference less than
one minute). Temple B forms an oval. Ten pillars
stand along the wall, a pair of bigger pillars mark
the center and are decorated with leaping foxes
whose heads and backs form arcs indicating
the trajectory of the rising sun. The begin of the
calendar walk was marked with a stone phallus.
The walking line performs a double loop: along
the northern pillars in clockwise direction, to the
central pillars, along the southern pillars in counter
clockwise direction, passing the space between
the pair of central pillars, and back to the begin:
www.seshat.ch/home/goebekli.GIFThedozen
pillars represent 12 times 30 = 360 days, the
space between the central pillars the 5 and
occasionally 6 additional days, together 365
and sometimes 366 days. 63 continuous periods
of 30 days, counted separately, marked with
pebbles at the base of the pillars, corresponded
to 64 lunations. The walking line also represented
the life of a ruler: birth, youth, appointment as ruler
(space between central pillars, oil dropped in bowls
on top of pillars), life as ruler, death (body placed
in between central pillars), and a new life, indicated
by the foxes who guide the soul of a worthy ruler
through the Underworld and back to daylight ...

Nevali Cori near Göbekli Tepe is a little younger.
The Cult Buildings are rectangular, the pillars
missing, but their positions still recognizeable.
Cult Building II had 12 pillars along the walls,
each representing 30 days, and a pair of central
pillars, the space between them 5 or 6 days.
Cult Building III had 13 pillars along the walls,
each representing 28 days, and a pair of central
pillars, the space between them representing
1 or 2 additional days. 135 continuous periods
of 28 days are 3,780 days and correspond to
128 lunations.

(end of part 1, to be continued)
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