VV(18): Sirius

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 00:35:47 CDT 2001


Heh, heh, he said ...

--- Christian KUmpe <D.Bizarro at gmx.net> wrote:
> Assmann ...

But, again, thanks for the info.  Exactly the kind of
response I hope for here, am glad to get a ball
rolling once in a while.  Thanks!  "Am an attendant
lord, one that will do/ To swell a progress, start a
scene or two" ...

 says, that Egypt as a
> literary topos, was used for
> visions of (earthly) paradise, even back in classic
> greece and ever since.
> Therefor we have at least 2000 years of a cultural
> history of an imaginary
> Egypt. Aside of some "real" egyptian tradition. Of
> course Sirius is a prominent
> item in this imaginary world. 
> M&D obviously needed some masonic backdrops. So,
> talkin of astronomers, why
> not get some sirius magic? 
> 
> Read you,
> 
> Christian
> 
> P.S.
> All the Sirius freaks recommend Robert Temple´s
> book, The Sirius Mystery. I
> haven´t read it yet. Of course the french
> anthroplogists (Germaine Dieterlen
> and the rest of the survivor´s of Griaules Team, who
> did all the fieldwork on
> the Dogon) produced later ön some simple astronomic
> explanation for the
> Dogon´s knowledge of Sirius B. A sort of Nova about
> 2000 years ago. 
> > 
> 
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