Kevin said: Talking of geometry, Grand cross on the 7th
Just yesterday I was asking myself, “Where is Kevin”? Is he checking out the “geometry” and the “energy flows”
On Columba, Phoenix, Phaeton, and Phoebus Apollo
It seems that all of the above “stars myths” are interrelated.
Where do Phoebe and Helios fit into the picture?
What is the common thread that seems to tie all these “stars” together? Is it a star called “wazn” or “weight”?
There are three stars associated with the name “wazn” or weight
Delta (δ) Canis Major, Wezen, (Sirius)
lambda Argo Navis (Alsuhail) (Vela)
alpha Centaurus (Rigil Kent) (Centaurus)
However, there were two stars “usurped” from Canis Major (Sirius) when Bayer created the constellation called Columba:
The part thus usurped was called Muliphein from al-muhlifein. These two stars are now alpha and beta Columbae (Phaet and Wazn). Muliphein is recognized as comprehending the two stars called Had'ar, ground, and al-wezn, weight.
Is the star Phaet related to Phaeton?
Phaet and Wazn are considered to be a “ground” and a “weight” which is the same association Phillip Coppens made between Sirius (the arrow) and Canopus (the plumb line)
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/forum/phpB ... 882#p35124
Its colleague in those tasks was Canopus, which we have already identified with the plumb line, if only in its concept of ‘heavy’. One of the reasons why Sirius and Canopus are deemed to measure the Abyss is because Canopus is situated virtually directly South from Sirius. Visually, a line connecting Sirius and Canopus would thus be considered a ‘plumb line’, with Canopus the weight at the bottom of it.
Columba, the Dove (Phact and Wezn) guides Argonauts and the Ark (Argo Navis) (Isis and Osiris) safely between the clashing rocks, the Symplegades (vortex?) to the land of the Golden Fleece (Paradise)
http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths ... cks_1.html
The twin rocks were located near the entrance to the Euxine and would clash together whenever any living thing tried to pass between them; when the Argonauts were on their way to Kolkhis (Colchis) to retrieve the Golden Fleece, they were forced to negotiate the formidable Clashing Rocks, which were also called the Kyanean (Cyanean), i.e. Dark-Rocks and Wandering Rocks.
The blind prophet, Phineus, told the Argonauts to send a dove through the rocks before they attempted to sail their ship through; if the dove survived, it would be safe for their ship, the Argo, to proceed; the dove made it through the Clashing Rocks with only the loss of its tail feathers and the Argo sailed boldly into the passage; Athene held back one of the rocks with one hand and pushed the Argo through with the other; after the Argo survived the Clashing Rocks they became stationary islands and never menaced sailors again.
Was Helios the “Old Sun” Saturn?
Phaeton the planet that exploded
http://thiaoouba.com/phaeton.html
The name and status given to Phaeton confirms beyond doubt that Phaeton was one of the brightest and the most prominent objects in the sky at night. As a "Son of Sun" Phaeton was as prominent during the night as Sun was during the day. There is no possibility that Phaeton was an asteroid, meteorite or some cometary debris. Phaeton was definitely a planet.
Phaeton
http://www.blavatsky.net/science/atlant ... haeton.htm
The book Cataclysm, that I have referred to frequently, identifies the Greek mythical character of Phaeton with the cosmic intruder. So this letter will examine Phaeton.
HPB mentions Phaeton twice in the SD. It appears clear in the following that she is associating Phaeton with a tilt in the axis.
"Thus, on the blind faith of his “ignorant” religion, which taught that Phaeton, in his desire to learn the hidden truth, made the Sun deviate from its usual course—Xenophantes asserts somewhere that, “the Sun turned toward another country”; which is a parallel, however slightly more scientific, if as bold, of Joshua stopping the course of the Sun altogether. Yet it may explain the teaching of the Northern mythology (in Jeruskoven) that, before the actual order of things, the Sun arose in the South, and its placing the Frigid Zone in the East, whereas now it is in the North." (SDii535)
In this second quote she also seems to associate Phaeton with an axis shift.
"In the myth of Phaeton it is said that at his death his sisters dropped hot tears which fell into Eridan and were changed into amber! Now amber is found only in the northern seas, in the Baltic. Phaeton, meeting with his death while carrying heat to the frozen stars of the boreal regions, awakening at the Pole the Dragon made rigid by cold, and being hurled down into the Eridan, is an allegory referring directly to the changes of climate in those distant times when, from a frigid zone, the polar lands had become a country with a moderate and warm climate. The usurper of the functions of the sun, Phaeton, being hurled into the Eridan by Jupiter’s thunderbolt, is an allusion to the second change that took place in those regions when, once more, the land where “the magnolia blossomed” became the desolate forbidding land of the farthest north and eternal ices" (SDii770 fn)
In passing we should also note the reference to "amber". Phaeton's tears became amber. And amber is only found in the northern seas, in the Baltic. I remember wondering years ago why his tears should be associated with the North. Now it is clear. That is where the cosmic intruder passed by and caused the amber. (Some other time I may find the references that link the amber to the major event of 12,000 years ago.)
Helios
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html
HELIOS (or Helius) was the Titan god of the sun. He was also the guardian of oaths and the god of gift of sight. Helios dwelt in a golden palace located in the River Okeanos (Eridanus?) at the eastern ends of the earth. From there he emerged each dawn driving a chariot drawn by four, fiery winged steeds and crowned with the aureole of the sun. When he reached the land of the Hesperides (Evenings) in the West he descended into a golden cup which carried him around the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the East. Once his son Phaethon attempted to drive the chariot of the sun, but losing control, set the earth on fire. Zeus then struck him down with a thunderbolt.
Is Phoebe a moon of Saturn or a moon of or created by Phoebus Apollo?
Phoebe
http://www.pheebs.net/Phoebe_%28mytholo ... opedia.htm
D.S. Robertson noted, reasoning that in the three great allotments of oracular powers at Delphi, corresponding to the three generations of the gods, "Ouranos, as was fitting, gave the oracle to his wife Gaia and Kronos appropriately allotted it to his sister Themis." In Zeus' turn to make the gift, however, Aeschylus could not report that the oracle was given directly to Apollo, who had not yet been born, Robertson notes, and thus Phoebe was interposed. These supposed male delegations of the powers at Delphi as expressed by Aeschylus are not borne out by the usual modern reconstruction of the sacred site's pre-Olympian history.
Chiron was one of the Centaurs, half-man and half-horse. He was the son of Philyra and Saturn. Phoebus Apollo took his newborn son Aesculapius to his cave for protection. He is represented in the sky by the constellation Centaurus, which contains the nearest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri. Begot by Saturn disguised as a horse. His home is on Mount Pelion. He was Peleus’s grandfather and the future tutor of Achilles.
Phoebus Apollo
http://www.swedenborgstudy.com/books/C. ... ns/26.html
As the god of the sun, Apollo was known as Phoebus, in order to distinguish him from the earlier sun-god, Hellios, the Titan son (Saturn?) of Ouranos and Gaea, whose office of driving the horses and chariot of the sun was inherited by Apollo, just as Neptune inherited the watery kingdom of his uncle, Oceanos. Helios, (whose name is clearly derived from the Semitic El or "ha-El," "the god," just as Apollo is derived from "ha-Baal"), stood for the idea of God as a man in the sun of the spiritual world.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/forum/phpB ... 450#p38416
And there is little doubt, in fact none, that Phaethon came to be understood as Saturn. There is the testimony of Erastosthenes' Catasterisms in dealing with the planets, beginning with Jupiter according to which the planet Saturn was Phaethon who fell from the chariot into Eridanus.
The Phoenix
http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newslette ... foah2.html
I'm trying to write about the phoenix, the bird of the sun, the bird of beautiful song. The firebird is ever self-renewing, but there is only one alive at a time.
In ancient Egypt, the phoenix, Bennu, was sprung from the heart of Osiris, the dying and resurrecting god and called 'the soul of Ra', the god of the sun.
The firebird is gold and red and orange. In the Russian stories, even one feather from the bird can light an enormous room.
When the new phoenix is born from the ashes of the old, it then gathers those ashes, mixes them with myrrh and brings them to the altar of the sun in Heliopolis.
As I began to look at the phoenix, I got interested in the word, which made me think of Leto's children, Phoebus, the Sun and Phoebe, the Moon, Apollo and Artemis. Phoibus is Greek for radiant, bright, pure. So here is the phoenix, the sun, the servant of the sun, with a faithfulness that always goes the full length, through and beyond death to return to us again.
Within the ash of the phoenix nest, an egg appears. A red egg. After the bird is grown enough, she mixes the ash with myrrh, a resin of purification and preservation, and brings it to the altar of the Sun. Even immolation has not completed the purification or the journey of the ash. It must be brought to Phoebus' altar and offered up.
Wezen
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Wezen.html
Delta (δ) Canis Major, Wezen, is a light yellow star in the Greater Dog.
Wezen, from Al Wazn, Weight, "as the star seems to rise with difficulty from the horizon"; but the German astronomer Ideler (1766-1846) justly calls this an astonishing star-name.
It also was one of the Muhlifain particularly described under Columba.
The name Al Muhlifain is used in reference to the following stars: gamma (Muliphein), zeta (Furud), lambda Argo Navis (Alsuhail), delta Canis Major (Wezen), and alpha Centaurus (Toliman), and also to the stars in Columba of which Allen p.167. says
Royer cut away a portion of Canis Major, and constructed Columba Noachi therewith in 1679.
The part thus usurped was called Muliphein from al-muhlifein, the two stars sworn by, because they were often mistaken for Soheil, or Canopus, before which they rise: these two stars are now alpha and beta Columbae (Phact and Wazn). Muliphein is recognized as comprehending the two stars called Had'ar, ground, and al-wezn, weight.
Columba
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/conste ... lumba.html
Phaet (Alpha Col) (ground)
Wezn (Beta Col) (weight)
Phaet (Phaeton?)
http://www.erectus.it/namedstars/phaet.html
(Alpha Columbae). Down below Orion lies Lepus, the Hare, Orion's prey, and below the Hare is a flying bird, Columba, the Dove. A modern constellation carved in the seventeenth century from the western outlying stars of Argo, Jason's ship, Columba was meant to represent Noah's Dove (Argo as Noah's Ark). Yet the little constellation still has some claims to ancient heritage, vague mention of it made almost 2000 years ago. As well there should have been.
Set into a fairly blank area of sky, the principal part of Columba is a rather prominent triangle, the brightest star of which, Phaet (appropriately the Alpha star), is just over the line into third magnitude (2.64). The star's name comes directly from Arabic, and means "the Ring Dove." Phaet is a fairly hot star of class B, with a surface temperature of 13,600 Kelvin. Its distance of 270 light years (allowing for ultraviolet radiation from its hot surface) tells of a star that radiates just about 1000 times the energy of the Sun. Seven times the solar diameter and 4.5 times the solar mass, phaet is classed as a "subgiant," a star that has just ceased (or is about to cease) the fusion of hydrogen into helium in its core. Evolution will now proceed rapidly as over only the next few million years the star will expand and cool to become a bright orange giant. Phaet is more specifically classed as a "Be" star, the "e" standing for "emission," for light radiated by hydrogen (and other atoms) at specific wavelengths or colors.
Like most class B stars, Phaet is spinning rapidly, at a speed of at least 180 kilometers per second at its equator (90 times that of the Sun), and maybe much higher. The rapid rotation causes the star to flatten at its poles and to spin off a low density envelope about twice its radius, from which the emissions come. Similar stars dot the sky, among them Achernar, Alcyone in the Pleiades, and the very odd star Cih. Ordinary hydrogen-fusing stars like the Sun (even such subgiants as phaet) divide rather neatly at a surface temperature of around 6500 Kelvin, those below it spinning slowly, those above very rapidly. The reason is that cooler stars, in which gases move turbulently up and down, generate magnetic fields that are pulled away by winds. The dragging magnetic fields then act over billions of years to slow the cooler stars down. The Sun must once have been rotating much more rapidly than it does today (and that's a Phaet; sorry, irresistible).
Phaet
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Phact.html
Alpha (α) Columba, Phact, is a star in the body of the Dove.
This star, alpha (α Phact), along with beta (β Wazn) were the "Good messengers" or "Bringers of Good News", which were consecrated to the Appeased Deity. [Allen, under Wazn, p.167-168]
Phaet, Phact, and Phad are all modern names for this, perhaps of uncertain derivation, but said to be from the Hadar (the Arabic hadar for "Earth" or "Ground") already noted under the constellation. The stars of this constellation were cut away from Canis Major in 1679. The part thus usurped was called Muliphein "the two stars sworn by". Muliphein is recognized as comprehending these two stars in Columba; this star alpha called Had'ar, ground, and beta (Wazn) al-wezn, weight.
Although inconspicuous, Lockyer thinks that it was of importance in Egyptian temple worship, and observed from Edfu and Philae as far back as 6400 B.C. And he has found three temples at Medinet Habu, adjacent to each other, yet differently oriented, apparently toward alpha (α Phact), 2525, 1250, and 900 years before our era: all these to the god Amen (Amun). He thinks that as many as twelve different temples were oriented to this star; but the selection of so faint an object for so important a purpose would seem doubtful.
When Zeus struck Phaeton with a thunderbolt, he fell into the river Eridanos.
Eridanus
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Co ... danus.html
The Eridanos was a purely mythical river of the north which was later variously identified with the Istros (Danube) of Hungary and the river Padus or Po of northern Italy [1]. The constellation Eridanus traditionally represents the river into which Phaeton fell when slain by Jupiter for having set the world on fire by misguiding the chariot of his father Phoebus.
According to Isidore the name Eridanus seems to have been an appellation for Phaeton, whose body fell into the Eridanus:
“The Padus (i.e. the Po), a river in Italy flowing from the Alpine heights, arises from three sources. The name of one of these sources is Padus, which, having spread out like a lake, sends the river from its lap. The river Padus is named from this. The Greeks also give it the cognomen Eridanus, from Eridanus the son of the Sun, whom people call Phaeton. After being struck by lightning he fell into this river and died. It is fed by melting snows at the rising of the Dog Star [Sirius, in Canis Major, representing the hot dog days of summer which causes ice and snow to melt on mountains and flow into rivers], and with the addition of thirty other streams it empties into the Adriatic Sea near Ravenna