Over the course of a year the forelegs sometimes went the wrong way -- as if the stars had stopped obeying the rules of astronomy... This table, she said in an interview, it not made up of casual observations of the Big Dipper but "looks more like a record of it."
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This is where the aliens came from!!! To help with the Sphincter!
I been watchin' it, too and I SWEAR that it is trying to get a scoop from the Milky Way.
If only we could see the constellations, the same way the ancients 2400 years ago could see them.
What an amazing thing that must have been.
I remember reading, some time ago, that the embalmers had a tool to insert into the mouth that would conveniently allow the brain to be removed. Naturally, the tool took the shape of the seven-stared asterism, but not scooped. Like a bent metal rod in the shape of the plough.
TTIUWP’s
Obama!!???
Its shape looks like a ladle with a scoop attached.
Ladle
scoop
DIPPER I see the ladle, but "Where's the scoop?!?"
Nit, the Second:
It is the last point of time in antiquity where Egypt would be ruled by native born rulers.
Their parents or grandparents may have been immigrants, but many of those rulers were born there. This guy is accidentally sounding like he doesn't consider Obama a "native born" ruler. ;-')
Quibble:
This section, although confusing to read, includes notation for the three Egyptian seasons, Akhet, Peret and Shemu. Each season is broken down into four months. It also has symbols representing the beginning, middle and end of the night – although it isn’t known at what exact time these points would have been set.
I'm betting on after dusk; at the crack of dawn; and about half way in between them.
I'm also betting it was even harder to read with the lid of the sarcophagus closed! Or did the mummy include a hand of glory to light up its life?
And, lo, and behold! We get to the end of the article, and what, to our (non)surprise do our wandering eyes see? A ridiculous conclusion that it "may have helped with time keeping"! Just what does she think the sun, solstice points, the moon, and Sirius were for? Not to mention the fact that they were obviously keeping pretty good time already, what with their three seasons, and ability to divide the night...and presumably also the day. *<]8-D
Oh; now I understand: it was ceremonial & tied to rituals...but was very inaccurate...again mainly because it is hard to inscribe accurately inside the dark interior of a closed sarcophagus?
Still, interesting report on what was actually found, and the (supposed) fact the arrangement was changed from columns to rows.
The ancient Sumerians kept tabs on the Little Dipper.
The Babylonians kept tabs on the Till-Dipper at the Hanging Gardens Ticket Booth.