Sirius in different cultures

Ancient Egypt: Whenever Sirius rises from the eastern horizon at dawn (this phenomenon is called "Astronomical Ascendance"), it is the annual Nile River flooding, and the Nile River flooding irrigates large areas of fertile fields on both sides of the shore, so the Egyptians began to cultivate again. The ancient Egyptians realized that the pool of the star rose with the sun, that is, when the sun rose just before the sun rose, the Nile Delta began to flood each year. And they found that the time interval between Sirius rises with the sun was not 365 days in Egypt but 365.25 days. Ancient Egypt determined the day when Sirius rose from the east before dawn as the beginning of the year. The predecessor of the "Gregorian calendar" used now was born in ancient Egypt.

The pyramids are all constructed from an astronomical perspective. Sirius is one of the few planets related to the pyramids, but it is precisely this concern for Sirius that makes people feel quite strange. Because when people observe Sirius from the city of Memphis, they can only be seen in the vast morning light near the horizon when the Nile River floods. There is a detailed calendar in Egypt in 421 BC, which is very confusing! This calendar is based on Sirius' rise (it was first revealed as July 19), and the annual period is more than 32,000 years.

Greek and Roman culture: Sirius has special significance in many cultures, especially for dogs. In fact, it is the brightest star in Canis Great, most commonly referred to as the "Dog Star". He is also a dog in traditional Orion mythology: The ancient Greeks believed that Sirius' light had adverse effects on dogs, causing them to abnormally appear in summer heat ("Dog Day"): their excessive gasp leads to excessive dryness and danger of disease. In extreme cases, foaming dogs may have rabies, which may cause infection and death of the bitten person. The ancient Romans knew these days were the dog days and called the star a small dog (caniula).

Asian Culture: In Chinese astronomy, this star is called Sirius (Wolf in the Sky); in Chinese Roman Pinyin: tiānláng; in Japanese Roman Pinyin: tenro; in South Korea Roman Pinyin: cheonlang), and in China the star official is Jingsu. Ancient Chinese imagined it with the stern and Canis as a large bow spanning the southern sky. Under this combination, the arrow is facing Sirius. Similar combinations also appear on the mural of Hasol Temple in Dendera, Egypt. In late Persian culture, this star is called Tir and was regarded as an arrow. The Saudi goddess (satis) painted her arrow on the goddess Hasol (Sirius).

American culture: Many natives in North America also link Sirius with dogs; in the southwest, the Aboriginal Seri and Toghenno Oham tribes noted that this star is a dog following Sheep Mountain, which is called "Dog Face", and the Chairok tribes pair Sirius and Xinsuo to serve as guardian dogs at both ends of the Soul Road. Nebraska's Ponnie tribes have several associations; the wolf tribes regard it as "Wolf Star", while other tribes consider it as "Coyote". Inuit in Alaska's Bering Strait further north, called this star a "Moon Dog". Some cultures associate this star with bows and arrows.

Sirius' Unsolved Mystery:

In Egypt, the orientation of almost all religious and funeral buildings is astronomical. One of the celestial bodies that were aligned by the Egyptians with collimator was Sirius. Many temples faced this star (for example: the Temple of Hathor in Dandela). Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky and is easy to find. However, this feature alone is not enough to explain the entire thing. Architects have kept this exact position in mind: the direction of Sirius in the sky near July 15. In ancient Egypt, Sirius returned to the sky at this time of year.

The Earth's orbit around the sun and the rotation of the earth causes the star signs in the night sky to be different every night. When night falls, part of the stars rise is delayed day by day until they disappear in the night sky for several weeks, and then return to the sky. The fact is that in mid-July every year, Sirius "appears" again after 70 days of "escape". Before sunrise, it appears in the dim morning light and shines in the Egyptian sky. However, it happens that the annual high tide of the Nile River is not the only way for Egyptians to live.

Important events that may be missing also occur at this time. In mid-July every year, when Sirius rises from the east before dawn, the Nile River begins to flood. Some silt overflows with the river water, nourishing the surrounding land. When the tide recedes, farmers start to sow seeds on the fertile soil. All agricultural production in Egypt is closely related to the rise and fall of the Nile River. Therefore, the Egyptians regard Sirius as a god and worship it. Even the direction of the temples built must be consistent with the rise of Sirius.

There is another puzzle related to this, which is related to Sirius. The ancient Egyptians love to connect Sirius with Isis. Isis is Osiris' sister and spouse and the mother of Horus. There is a passage in the pyramid scriptures, which is written about Osiris:

Your sister Isis is here, you are happy, you love. You put her on you... Because of the child, Isis has grown older, just like Seput (Sirius).

Putt was born in the name of the residents of Septe.

As an unusual star, Sirius is particularly bright and twinkling in the winter nights of the Northern Hemisphere. As shown in the pyramid scriptures, it has the identity of a dual planetary system: what we see is Sirius a. Sirius b surrounds Sirius a, but because its size is too small, our naked eyes cannot see it. American astronomer Alvinclark did not discover its existence until 186z using the largest and latest celestial telescope at that time. This is also the first time that people have seen Sirius b. However, how did the writer of the pyramid scriptures know that Sirius is a dual planetary system?

Whether it was the ancient Egyptians or the "gods", they must have spent a lot of time on observations of astronomical phenomena, especially the observation of Sirius more in-depth. Ancient Egypt had an extremely convenient concept of Sirius periodic calendar, and they believed that this was given by the gods (the period of the ancient Egyptian calendar was 1460 years and the period of the solar calendar was 1461 years).

The so-called Sirius period is "the period in which Sirius rises in the same place as the sun again". In a fixed season, Sirius disappears from the sky and then rises from the east before the sun rises and dawns. Calculate from time, if the decimal number 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, there is only one star that rises at the same time as the sun, which is exactly the result of the "correct movement" of the Tianjun Star (proper touch, the speed of the planet moving in the universe) and the 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. Previously, in the place where the pyramid scriptures were written, the ancient Egyptians had already calculated the arrival of New Year's Day and informed all the temples on the Nile River.

In the pyramid scriptures, Sirius is named "hernameothenegear". All signs show that the Sirius Episode is at least as long as the pyramid scriptures, and the origins of both are wrapped in the distant ancient fog. The most difficult mystery to solve is that in that extremely long ancient era, who observed and recorded the cycles between the sun and Sirius with such superb scientific knowledge, a very coincidental difference of 365.25 days? French mathematician Schwarz (r.a.shallerde Lubiz) once said that Sirius' cycle is "an unexpected celestial phenomenon that is completely unpredictable."

We have nothing to say except admiration for scientists who discovered this purely accidental phenomenon. Sirius, who chose this double star, moved the necessary distance among countless stars. We still forget that humans had already understood this phenomenon 4,000 years ago, and to discover this phenomenon, we must pass a long-term observation of the movement of celestial bodies.

The inference we can get from the pyramid scriptures is that long-term and correct observation of celestial movements and scientifically record them is the legacy obtained by prehistoric Egyptians through some inheritance.

Tribal mystery

The Dogan people living in the mountains in the southern part of the Timbuktu region of the Republic of Mali are one of the indigenous peoples in Africa that still maintain primitive jungle life.

In 1930, two French ethnologists, Marcel Griole and Jomay Dieteron, went deep into the primitive tribe of Dogan and collected many unique myths and legends. They unexpectedly discovered the mystery of the celestial wolf that astronomers had argued for a century, and found the answer in the myths and legends of Dogan people.

Sirius is one of the brightest stars that can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye, although it is 8.7 light years from the earth - 51 trillion miles away. Many ancient astronomical works record that Sirius is crimson red, while Sirius in modern people's eyes is white. Why has Sirius changed in color? This mystery deeply attracted scientists.

The Dogan people told French scientists that Sirius is composed of a large star and a small star. The small star is a black, dense and invisible companion star. It moves around the big star in an elliptical orbit. They also know that twice the movement cycle of the small star is 100 years. They have passed on from generation to generation that Sirius is the smallest and heaviest star in the sky, and there is a kind of luminous metal material that is not on the earth. In an accident, the Sirius companion star suddenly exploded and strong light occurred, and then gradually dimmed. Although the Dogan people cannot see this dim companion star with their naked eyes, the old people can use their canes to mark the running routes and various figures of the two stars on the ground. When Sirius appeared between the two peaks, a sacrificial ceremony called "Sigui" was held, about every 60 years, which is the most solemn religious activity ceremony.

Deng Boer believes that the Dogan people’s knowledge of the Tianyan Star is both detailed and accurate. As we have seen, they are like us, and they think of the Tianyan Star with an invisible companion. The Dogan people call this companion "Gui Xing". The reason why the Dogan people call it Gui Xing is probably because it is so small that it is almost invisible. According to the Dogan people, the "Gui Xing" is composed of the heaviest metal known to people now, which is even heavier than iron. This is inconsistent, the Dogan people know that the Tianyan Star b has a large density.

The Dogan people also painted many ritual pictures about the Sirius system. These paintings show that the Dogan people understand that the orbit of Sirius b orbiting Sirius a is elliptical, and Sirius a is in the center. According to the legend of the Dogan people, Deng Boer even drew a picture of the swinging orbits of Sirius and the "Gu Star", and it was found that it was surprisingly similar to the same picture drawn by Sirius a and b by modern astronomers.

According to the Dogan people, their ancestors' knowledge about Sirius b was taught by a god named "Romo". The Dogan people still preserve a painting that clearly shows that the "god" they believed in fell from the sky in a large spaceship dragging flames and landed on it to their clan.
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