In the news of the day, was the assassination of an archeologist in the Syrian war, his corpse hoisted onto one of the columns in Palmyra, the ancient Roman ruin...myself, I'd rather not deign to even mention events over there, as clearly that's what the assassins want--attention. But, but, in my after midnight sojourn about the web tonight, I was going over again Robert Graves and his take on the Dog Star Sirius...that in a sec...but in my reading I happened on this ancient account, and it's striking similarity to the news of the day...it wasn't a bit ago someone asked me what became of the ancient Library of Alexandria...I'm not sure...one thought is it had many mishaps, like fires and looting, and so perished, but the legendary one is that it was sacked and burned (not unlike the fate of the libraries and treasures of Peking!) at one fell stroke.
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Eunapius mentions that the Christians destroyed the temples in the vicinity and demolished the Serapheum at Alexandria, and settled their black-robed monks on the spot of Canopus in order to supplant paganism there. Hence, we see that that particular place had a unique importance. Surely it should be excavated. The pagan mysteries of the place, eventually destroyed by the Christians, probably continued the Behdet tradition and were related to our Sirius question.
The Sirius Mystery
Was Earth visited by Intelligent Beings from a Planet in the Star System Sirius
by Robert K. G. Temple
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I had to look up who Eunapius was...
The Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, a collection of the biographies of 23 older and contemporary philosophers and sophists of the author, is valuable as the only source for the history of the Neoplatonism of that period. The style of both works is marked by a spirit of bitter hostility to Christianity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunapius
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Eunapius wrote two works, one about the Philosophers, and another a history of those times 207-404 AD, which was lost, but much quoted in another ancient history, which apparently tones down Eunapius' depictions of early Christians, which likley was an exaggeration, though I think many books, and indeed, classical temples and such, were lost then. The time frame I find curious, as it's about where I left off with the Sanhedrin and The Temple history...there's an explanation of why the membership of the Greater Sanhedrin was seventy one at wiki's site, but that number, seventy, and other numbers, keep re-occurring in classical mythology...this author mentions that the ancients liked puns, not for humor, but to use for concealment...which may explain why the Bible is cryptic, and fosters so many interpretations!...and in his book he tries to present the commonalities showing up in wide spread myths which suggest something hidden, his premise of ancient astronauts, and of course he goes a lot to Robert Graves' Greek Myths for support.
Graves authored more than a hundred books, and I imagine too, his day to day was non stop discussion of many things beyond most people's day to day, including mine!...and I imagine he was never happier than when he was going on about the old myths...read the Myths, or the White Goddess, and it is his rhapsody...myself, I cant make heads or tails of it all, but read on...and this author has kindof picked up the same style...
Now, how did I come to this web page, The Dogon, in his book? Well, I webchecked on Pluto and Ceres, no new pics, but took note of a a site touting a Russian made youtube about Nibiru, that Planet X the ufo folk go on about. It may well be that Dawn, or New Horizons, the space crafts out there, may go on further, and actually see Planet X...the astronomers seem to acknowledge now that there could be big planets out in the Ort Cloud waiting to be discovered...the unwarranted fear is that Planet X, if it exists, has an elipitcal orbit that brings it into the inner solar system...a cycle of 3600 years some say...that may or may not be...clearly there's a lot of things in Outer Space, and just as clearly Outer Space is spacious enough, and ordered enough, that the bigger things rarely intersect...
But, but, reading as I was, I thought to look up again Graves and his take on the Dog Star Sirius...he writes that a small gold balance weight, a figurine with one eye, a token souvenir someone gave him, its origin an African tribe called the Dogon, was sitting on his writing table while he was writing the book Hercules My Shipmate, a redo of Jason and the Golden Fleece story, and that this figurine diverted him into his writing out an inspired work: The White Goddess...a book which is a kinda Celtic Myths counterpart to his Greek Myths...Graves loved that book the most of all he wrote, I think, though Laura Riding, his girl for a time, and muse, carped that he stole its contents from her...Graves had a messed up domesticity!...anyway, Mythology permeates all his books, and something in them is like the north pole to his compass, and maybe it was the Dogon tribe, and their traditions about the Dog Star Sirius...
Maya, my dog, has grown up to sometime look so much like the ancient Egyptian dog Anubis, that I sometimes think to have named her Anubis...and she has a personality so wild and unfettered, that she is like out of some myth...I don't dare any more to go on walks...if she got off the leash, she would run to the nearest person, leap up on them, smother them with sloopy tongue kisses, and after awhile, I haven't permitted things beyond this while she is on leash, after awhile, she will tug a war their clothing, and then eat them...:)...as she does me most every day!....she began eating the bunk I made out on the porch, so I took the mattress away...since that, she's devoured the lamp, and floor molding, and even a wall plug...I have a double bunk bed on order for the porch...thinking I can sleep on the top, and so be out of reach!...behind the now gone molding, I can see the black mold on the gypsum board behind the thin paneling, so must deal with that...I cant lock up the dog door as she's torn away around it...nothing now to anchor hooks to!...so must deal with that, so I will have way to keep her outside while I deal with the porch inside...I'm always a step behind, and reminds me of dealing with someone in poor health that has lost their reason, which I've done, but Maya is in excellent health, and sensible, in her way, which makes me question my own sense!...lol...
anyway, the Sirius/Dogon tale is in a lot of ufo lore, and easy to find, and the common notion is that from priesthood to priesthood through history, star lore has been passed down...pied as it were...an example...for seventy days Sirius is gone from the night sky...and again and again, seventy, and other numbers, show up in mythology...
the author has a bit about werewolves, a hark to my post Top Hat...
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When Danaos fled from Egypt to Argos, he is specifically said to have brought Egyptian mysteries, the Thesmophoria. Presumably the Sirius-complex was thus transplanted. (One should read Herodotus II, 165-70.) The element of the wolf, sometimes substituted for the dog in the Sirius tradition of the Dog Star, is important. It is an obvious European substitute for the non-existent jackal of Anubis.
With no jackal in Europe, the wolf was the candidate. Wolfish Apollo is jackalish. It was from this changing of the jackal into the wolf through adaptation to the European clime that those peculiar wolf traditions arose in wild Arcadia which developed in pre-classical times into the werewolf concepts. Human blood-sucking vampires, the use of garlic for protection against them, and lycanthropy of werewolves all luxuriated in the wilds of Arcady among the Pelasgian survivors in pre-classical Greece after the Dorian invasion.
The phenomenon is rather like the plethora of fairy-tales and 'Celtic twilight' to be found in Ireland, with the multitude of fantastic stories and creatures. What is a werewolf? It is a man's body with a wolf's head.
That is exactly what Anubis became when transferred to Greece; instead of a man's body with a jackal's head, he was a man with a wolf's head because there was no jackal in Greece. And the temples of Wolfish (or Lycian) Apollo, were not altogether rare in Greece. Aristotle's famous school at Athens the Lyceum, was in the grounds of the Lycian Apollo's temple just outside the Athens Gate of Diochares. The name 'Lyceum' comes from the Lycian Apollo, which is the Wolfish Apollo.
Origins of the Dogon
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and here from the author's text is the footnote to his take on the Library at Alexandria and Eunapais...
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Ibid., pp. 421-5 (text 472): 'Next, into the sacred places they imported monks, as they called them, who were men in appearance but led the lives of swine, and openly did and allowed countless unspeakable crimes. But this they accounted piety, to show contempt for things divine. For in those days every man who wore a black robe and consented to behave in unseemly fashion in public possessed the power of a tyrant, to such a pitch of virtue had the human race advanced! All this however I have described in my Universal History. They settled these monks at Canobus also, and thus fettered the human race to the worship of slaves . . .' Among the unspeakable crimes being referred to was the destruction by Bishop Theodosius of the Great Library of Alexandria because it contained 'heathen literature'. Hence, the loss of the hundreds of thousands of books from the ancient world, which everyone laments so often, took place at the hands of a fanatical Christian bishop attempting to wipe out all trace of history before Christ, and not as the result of an accidental fire from the time of Mark Anthony, as the story is usually told.
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Which brings to mind post I did about the old Russian 'black robes'...
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Modern theorists suggest that the motivating purpose for the organization and existence of the Oprichniki was to suppress people or groups opposed to the Tsar. Known to ride black horses and led by Ivan himself, the group was known to terrorize civilian populations. Sometimes called the "Tsar's Dogs"[by whom?] because of their actions and blind loyalty,[citation needed] they dressed in black garb, similar to a monastic habit, bearing the insignia of a severed dog's head (to sniff out treason and enemies of the Tsar) and a broom (to sweep them away). The dog's head was also symbolic of "nipping at the heels of the Tsar's enemies".[
Oh, and this, found while trying to find if the star in the Star and Crescent Moon motif is Sirius (it would seem to be Venus)...
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"In 340 B.C., however, the Byzantines, with the aid of the Athenians, withstood a siege successfully, an occurrence the more remarkable as they were attacked by the greatest general of the age, Philip of Macedon. In the course of this beleaguerment, it is related, on a certain wet and moonless night the enemy attempted a surprise, but were foiled by reason of a bright light which, appearing suddenly in the heavens, startled all the dogs in the town and thus roused the garrison to a sense of their danger. To commemorate this timely phenomenon, which was attributed to Hecate, they erected a public statue to that goddess [...]" William Gordon Holmes, The Age of Justinian and Theodora, 2003 p 5-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent
Justinian paired down the many stories and books of the time to what we now know as the New Testament...but let me find if Sirius might be the star in the Crescent Moon and Star...
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http://people.opposingviews.com/islam-symbols-moon-stars-6982.html
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I forget where I got it, but I picked up somewhere that Islam adopted the Egyptians' 'Tear of Isis'...(the Crescent Moon and Star motif is much older than Islam..see the wiki pages)...brb...
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The Beautiful Star of Isis now called Sirius, but anciently called Sothis by the Greeks and Sopdet by the Egyptians, was considered to open the way for the Nile flood, which brought life and fertility back to the land of Egypt. About five thousand years ago the heliacal rising of Sirius occurred on the Summer Solstice which falls on June 21st. This means that Sirius rose just ahead of the Sun and was visible again for a few brief moments after a 70 day absence from the skies of Egypt.
Sirius: The Sacred Star of Isis
The Star of the New Year
Cynthia Isis Anderson
http://www.mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id63.html
search term 'isis' is impossible at the moment, as it just brings up news of the assassins...and likely adds my posts/searches to a 'snowden like list' that sends John Oliver running after interviewing Snowden!...:)
but...
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The cult of Isis and Osiris continued up until the 6th century CE on the island of Philae in Upper Nile. The Theodosian decree (about 380 CE) banning all pagan religions was not enforced there until the time of Justinian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
and there's Theodosius and Justinian together, with Mohammad's purges nearby in time and place too...is Syria named after Sirius?...brb...
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"All Syriac writers have throughout times unanimously explained that the word Suroye comes from a person that was called Sures or Syrus. But we haven't found this Sures/Syrus in history, so it is nothing scientific, one can call it a legend or a myth. There are many such legends people have made up in order to explain things", Dr. Assad reasons.
http://www.aina.org/ata/20070218144107.htm
well...I'll do the simple search: Syria star Sirius..brb
there's this, where I've already been!
brb
oh,...and this is goosebump time...
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Its risings and settings were regularly tabulated in Chaldaea about 300 B.C., and Oppert is reported to have recently said that the Babylonian astronomers could not have known certain astronomical periods, which as a matter of fact they did know, if they had not observed Sirius from the island of Zylos in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, the 29th of April, 11542 B.C.!
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Sirius.html
It's almost sunrise...11,000 years ago for another sojourn...:)
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"In 340 B.C., however, the Byzantines, with the aid of the Athenians, withstood a siege successfully, an occurrence the more remarkable as they were attacked by the greatest general of the age, Philip of Macedon. In the course of this beleaguerment, it is related, on a certain wet and moonless night the enemy attempted a surprise, but were foiled by reason of a bright light which, appearing suddenly in the heavens, startled all the dogs in the town and thus roused the garrison to a sense of their danger. To commemorate this timely phenomenon, which was attributed to Hecate, they erected a public statue to that goddess [...]" William Gordon Holmes, The Age of Justinian and Theodora, 2003 p 5-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent
Justinian paired down the many stories and books of the time to what we now know as the New Testament...but let me find if Sirius might be the star in the Crescent Moon and Star...
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The spiritual meaning of the moon and star can vary. The Quran includes a chapter titled the "The Moon," in which the split or crescent moon is a harbinger of the day of judgment. The Quran also has a chapter called "The Star," which refers to God as the lord of the day star Sirius worshipped by pagans. Moreover, the moon is associated with Muhammad in Muslim poetry, and the mystical tradition known as sufism uses the moon as a symbol of the heart responsive to the light of truth. In addition, one popular interpretation of the five-pointed star is that it represents the five pillars of Islam, which are the five foundational obligations of the obedient Muslim life.
http://people.opposingviews.com/islam-symbols-moon-stars-6982.html
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I forget where I got it, but I picked up somewhere that Islam adopted the Egyptians' 'Tear of Isis'...(the Crescent Moon and Star motif is much older than Islam..see the wiki pages)...brb...
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The Beautiful Star of Isis now called Sirius, but anciently called Sothis by the Greeks and Sopdet by the Egyptians, was considered to open the way for the Nile flood, which brought life and fertility back to the land of Egypt. About five thousand years ago the heliacal rising of Sirius occurred on the Summer Solstice which falls on June 21st. This means that Sirius rose just ahead of the Sun and was visible again for a few brief moments after a 70 day absence from the skies of Egypt.
Sirius: The Sacred Star of Isis
The Star of the New Year
Cynthia Isis Anderson
http://www.mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id63.html
search term 'isis' is impossible at the moment, as it just brings up news of the assassins...and likely adds my posts/searches to a 'snowden like list' that sends John Oliver running after interviewing Snowden!...:)
but...
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The cult of Isis and Osiris continued up until the 6th century CE on the island of Philae in Upper Nile. The Theodosian decree (about 380 CE) banning all pagan religions was not enforced there until the time of Justinian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
and there's Theodosius and Justinian together, with Mohammad's purges nearby in time and place too...is Syria named after Sirius?...brb...
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"All Syriac writers have throughout times unanimously explained that the word Suroye comes from a person that was called Sures or Syrus. But we haven't found this Sures/Syrus in history, so it is nothing scientific, one can call it a legend or a myth. There are many such legends people have made up in order to explain things", Dr. Assad reasons.
All Things Assyrian
Inscription From 800 BC Shows the Origin of the Name 'Syria'
Posted 2007-02-18 19:41 GMT
http://www.aina.org/ata/20070218144107.htm
well...I'll do the simple search: Syria star Sirius..brb
there's this, where I've already been!
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/siriusmystery/siriusmystery06.htm
'The Dog-men' are probably connected with Sirius the Dog Star and Hebron is .... tablets from Ugarit on the coast of present-day Syria, dating from about 1800 ...brb
oh,...and this is goosebump time...
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Its risings and settings were regularly tabulated in Chaldaea about 300 B.C., and Oppert is reported to have recently said that the Babylonian astronomers could not have known certain astronomical periods, which as a matter of fact they did know, if they had not observed Sirius from the island of Zylos in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, the 29th of April, 11542 B.C.!
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Sirius.html
It's almost sunrise...11,000 years ago for another sojourn...:)
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Shines eminent amid the depth of night,
Whom men the dog-star of Orion call.
from Homer's Illiad, on Priam seeing the arrival of Achilles...
oh...Orion's belt, and the men in black, for sometime!
Anubis is watching Sirius, I just realized, and that enigmatic looking into the distance of old Egyptian statuary the same star gazing...
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