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16-01-08, 07:00 PM
I for one would favor a news year’s celebration in the middle of summer coinciding with the heliacal rising of the Dog Star Sirius. The revivial of such an observance would have to follow a long period of Education about Egyptian/Ethiopian/Dogon, etc., astronomy, possibly an explanation of the significance of the annual flooding of the Nile and its relationship to the star, and some kind of exposition generating cultural motivation for reviving the holiday. I think this would be difficult sine the Nile has been damned up and neither Africans nor Egyptian Arabs anticipate the annual flooding. I do not know what significance the rising of the star has for Ethiopians or other African ethnic groups today. And, I hope I am not assuming too much by linking your new year’s vision with the rising of this star. My assumption is that you probably know more about it than I.
Still, perhaps an even better way to revive the holiday is to study and the research of Dr. Beaval (I cannot recall his first name). He is more interested in the 1460-year cycle of the heliacal rising of the Dog Star Sirius. According to him, the Egyptians embarked upon major building and/or military campaigns every 730 and 1460 years and that these campaigns coincided with the halfway point or the reset point (i.e., every 1460 years) for the movement of the Sirius star (i.e., its location at certain times of the year changes from year to year because the earth wobbles like a spinning top losing momentum, but resets every 1460 years). If anyone believes in the movement of the stars, sun and moon and their affect on barometric pressure and consequently on human behavior, you must also ask the question: “Were the Egyptians more active at the 730 or 1460 years cycles by conscious intention or did the movement of the stars influence African biological rhythms causing them to be more aggressive at the aforementioned cycles?” Irrespective of the answer, it would be good to teach Africans about the coming of the next cycle. It is only a few hundred years away. Reviving the 1460-year cycle would connect us to thousands of years of African history and should not infringe upon any religion. It might also, dare I say it, give us a clue as to when we are most potent. Then we may exclaim, "the stars have looked favorably upon us." Am I making any sense?
Yes, I know . . . crazy thoughts . . .
Last edited by Neferkare; 16-01-08 at 07:05 PM.
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