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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 95

Solomon and Ezekiel // possible origin of Sion (2/2)

Ezekiel was on exile in Upper Mesopotamia.
In his vision he describes an ideal Jerusalem
based on the idea of the Asherah sanctuary
yet expanded in an almost surrealistic way,
combining measures of length with periods
of time as defined by astronomy:

30 'measures' correspond to one lunation
64 'measures' correspond to 63 days

The wall surrounding Jerusalem in Ezekiel's vision
has a length of 4 times 4,500 = 18,000 measures
corresponding to 600 lunations, diameter 191
lunations or 5,640 days or 5,730 measures.

The four gates mark the cardinal directions. Connect
them with a square. Transform the square into a circle
of the same area. How long is the diameter? 4,500
measures.

Inscribe a dodecagon in the large circle of the wall.
How long is the periphery? 30 Venus years (roughly
48 solar years).

A vision involving a large circle, the moon and Venus,
the cardinal directions, and wheels turning within
wheels can only refer to the sky, so we may assume
the ideal Jersualem was located in the heavens.

If Greek Seion (Septuaginta) Hebrew Sijjon Latin
Seon (Vulgata) Old English Seon Modern English
Zion goes back to Magdalenian, the original
compound could have been SEI IAN meaning
life (sai) to mark the place of a new camp (ian),
together something like: Let us mark the place
of a new camp where we can live, where life may
flourish.

(end of part 2)

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006-8
Part 94

Solomon and Ezekiel // possible origin of Sion (1/2)

According to Israel Finkelstein, Solomon symbolizes
the united kingdom of Judah and Israel in the Iron Age.
Solomon's 'Molten Sea' may have been another
variant of the Asherah sanctuary, a tree of life
surrounded by a dozen lions carved from wood,
each carrying a bronze vessel. A vessel of the size
reported in the Bible couldn't have been cast. The
circumference measured 30 cubits, the diameter
10 cubits. A slight modification would make sense:
the combination of two cubits of nearly the same
length, a black cubit of 21 parts, and a red cubit
of 22 parts. If the diameter of a circle measures
1 black cubit (21), the circumference measures
3 red cubits (66, 66/21 = 22/7). If the radius of
a circle measures 1 black cubit, the area 1 black
cubit times 3 red cubits. If the diameter of a sphere
measures 2 black cubits, the volume 2 black cubits
times 2 black cubits times 1 red cubit. If the side
of a square measures 20 black cubits, the diagonal
27 red cubits.

(end of part 1, to be continued)

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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
(3/4)

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)
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