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140 6 Method of Astronomical Determination of the Dates Encoded in Egyptian Zodiacs
mainly because it uses more complete decoding of the astronomical
contents of the zodiacs.
Let us point out, right from the beginning, that by the
astronomical dating of the Egyptian zodiacs, we mean not
finding the dates of their creations, but the dates, which were
encoded by the ancient Egyptians on these zodiacs. With the
help of the available today computational technology, we have
an opportunity to discover many of these dates. Regarding
the dates of the creation of these zodiacs, it is completely
another problem, which has to be treated differently. One
thing is sure that they couldn’t be created earlier than the
dates encoded in them. Indeed, it is reasonable to think that
people at that time, as it would be today, used these zodiacs
to commemorate certain events from the past, and not from
the future.
On the other hand, there was nothing that could prevent
an ancient Egyptian artist from encoding of a much older date
into a zodiac. As we explained earlier, ancient astronomers
were able to calculate the planetary positions for a specified
date. It is also possible that they already had a chronological
concept of their own “ancient,” but not always correct,
chronology. Therefore, in the case of some Egyptian zodiacs,
we may be dealing with the dates that were ancient even
for the creators of these zodiacs, and are represented by the
planetary configurations resulting from astronomical computations.
Our astronomical dating procedure of the Egyptian zodiacs
consists of the following steps:
6.7.1 Step 1: Identification of the Planets in
the Main Horoscope with All Possible
Variants Considered.
For a given Egyptian zodiac, we recognize with the help of
the comparative tables of Egyptian astronomical symbols (see
section 5.4), all the possible variants of identification of the
planetary symbols in the main horoscope, i.e. the variants of
decoding of its main horoscope.
Usually, there are always several variants of decoding. For
example, very often the symbols of the Sun and Moon, shown
on an Egyptian zodiac, are very similar. In such a situation,
we have to consider all the possible choices of their identification.
Sometimes, there are problems with identification of the
other planets, whose symbols couldn’t be definitely recognize
at the preliminary stage.
6.7.2 Step 2: Computation of the Dates for
All Variants of Decoding
For every variant of decoding of the main horoscope, obtained
in the previous step, we compute all the dates, indicating
when the configuration of the planets, coinciding with the
arrangement of the planets on the zodiac (according to the
considered variant of decoding) occured on the real sky. These
computations were carried out using the computer program
Horos (see section 6.6).
In the same time, we verify if the order of the planets is
the same as shown on the zodiac. Let us point out that not
always this order can be fully determined. In some cases the
order is not clear. For example, on zodiacs of the round type,
a pair of planets can be arranged in such a way that any order
of these planets is compatible with the picture of the zodiac.
Or, a zodiac could be partially damaged, so the order of the
planets in the damaged area is of course undefined. For these
reasons, the program Horos was designed in such a way that
it is possible to deal with all kinds of such situations.
The computations were carried out for the time interval
from the year 500 B.C. till 1900 A.D. We decided to choose
the lower bound of 500 B.C. for this interval based on the fact
that, according to presently accepted Scaliger’s chronology of
Ancient Egypt, all the zodiacs allowing their decoding and astronomical
dating, i.e. the zodiacs of the “Greek-Babylonian”
type, began to appear in Egypt not earlier than in the first
century B.C. 16 . Before that time, Egyptian zodiacs were completely
different, and the rules for their decoding still have
to be established 17 . In order to properly cover in our computations
the assumed by Egyptologists epoch of the “Greek-
Babylonian” zodiacs, a margin of additional few centuries was
included in the lower bound for the time interval.
All the computed dates from the interval 500 B.C. — 1900
A.D., for which the planetary configuration on the sky was
conformed with the horoscope on the zodiac (with the same
order of planets), were included in the list of all possible
(admissible) dates for the considered variant of decoding. As a
result, for every analyzed zodiac, we’ve obtained a table with
columns corresponding to the specified variants of decoding
of the main horoscope, each column containing all the admissible
dates computed by the program Horos. The number of
admissible dates varied from 4–5 to several dozens for some
of the considered zodiacs.
It is very interesting, that in the case of many analyzed
by us Egyptian zodiacs, there was not even one admissible
date falling into the postulated by Egyptologists epoch of
few centuries before and after the beginning of our era. This
fact fully confirms the Morozov’s claim that for that epoch it
doesn’t exist any admissible astronomical solution, so needed
by Egyptologists to support their version of Egyptian chronology.
All the postulated by various authors astronomical solutions,
related to that epoch, admit such incredible flaws that
it is difficult at all to consider them as solutions 18 .
16 See [31], p. 40.
17 See [31], p. 38.
18 See [4], Vol.6.