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8.1.12 Conclusions
Our astronomical solutions passed successfully all the verifications
of their agreement with the information shown on the
both main horoscopes and in other scenes on the Athribis zodiacs.
In particular, under the assumption that the beginning
of the year was in June, they perfectly matched the partial
horoscope of the summer solstice on the Lower zodiac and
the “meeting scene” in Leo on the Upper zodiac. There are
also strong indications that the zodiacs were created based on
the direct observations, without help of astronomical computations
to find locations of the invisible planets.
The date encoded in the Upper zodiac was May 15–16,
1230 A.D.
The date is encoded in the Lower zodiac is February 9–10,
1268 A.D.
Consequently, the Athribis zodiacs were created not earlier
than the second half of the 13th century A.D.
The year on the Athribis zodiacs was considered to begin
in June, right before the summer solstice day, or possibly
on the summer solstice day. This feature makes the Athribis
zodiacs unique among the other Egyptian zodiacs, where the
beginning of the year was assumed to take place in September,
on the autumn equinox day. The reason for such distinctiveness
could be that the Athribis zodiacs are much older than
other analyzed by us zodiacs.
8.2 Brugsch’s Zodiac
Brugsch’s zodiac was already discussed in section 3.4, including
its story of discovery in the second half of the 19th century.
It was painted on a wooden coffin excavated from an “ancient”
Egyptian tomb. The tomb and the coffin were discovered by
the famous German Egyptologist — Henri Brugsch. This “ancient”
coffin was made using contemporary techniques of carpentry
and was in a perfect condition. On its cover, there was
a painting of a zodiac (see Figure 2.13).
In the center of the zodiac there is a figure of the goddess
Nut wearing an embroidered long dress surrounded by zodiacal
symbols and other figures. There is also a sequence of
several Demotic inscriptions nearby some of the constellation
figures on the left hand side of the goddess Nut. Brugsch was
very excited by this discovery. In 1868, he published the first
description of this zodiac in his book. 5
H. Brugsch found out that the Demotic inscriptions on
the zodiac were in fact the names of the planets, so there
was a horoscope described on this zodiac. In section 3.4, this
horoscope was simply called Demotic horoscope on Brugsch’s
zodiac. N.A. Morozov attempted the astronomical dating of
the Demotic horoscope. 6 He performed a huge amount of work
connected to the dating of this horoscope. Let us point out
5 See [14].
6 See [4], Vol. 6.
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that the Demotic horoscope was decoded without any difficulty
— the names of all the planets were simply written near
the constellations where their locations were supposed to be
(see Figure 3.14).
The results of Morozov’s computations were appalling. In
the whole historical time interval, beginning with the deep
antiquity till our present times, there were only two solutions
for the Demotic horoscope:
November 17, 1682 AD – the first solution of the Demotic
horoscope;
November 18, 1861 AD – the second solution of the
Demotic horoscope.
In respect of quality, these two solutions could be considered
as equivalent (see section 3.4 for more details). In fact, besides
these two, there was not even one less qualified solution found
for this horoscope. N.A. Morozov accepted the first solution
— the year 1682, and he assessed the second one as being too
late. It would be really strange to admit that the date on the
Demotic horoscope was just one year earlier than the date of
publication of Brugsch’s zodiac.
Let us recall (see section 3.4) that we were able to identify
two other complete horoscopes on Brugsch’s zodiac. These
horoscopes were not just annotations, which could be added
much later, but they were integral parts of the whole design
of the zodiac. Neither H. Brugsch nor N.A. Morozov realized
their existence on this zodiac. Each of them carries encoded
inside certain date. It is an ideal situation for the purpose of
astronomical dating — they are three complete horoscopes
included on a single zodiac. Consequently, we expect that in
the case of a successful dating, their three dates should refer
to the same epoch.
We call these two new horoscopes the horoscope in Boats
and the horoscope without Walking Sticks. We refer to section
3.4 for a more detailed presentation of this subject.
Now, we are passing to the dating of the horoscopes on
the Brugsch’s zodiac.
8.2.1 Annotated Demotic Horoscope on the
Brugsch’s Zodiac
There is nothing else that we could add to the Morozov’s
analysis of the Demotic horoscope. We have reproduced all
his calculation and found out that his results were correct
(see section 3.4 for more details). There were indeed only two
solutions: the year 1682 and 1861. We postpone our discussion
of these solutions till we find the dates of all the other
horoscopes on Brugsch’s zodiac. We assume that these three
horoscopes are connected to the tomb where they were found,
so all the three dates should be close one to another. It is very
interesting to find out which one of the two solutions: 1682 or
1861 will turn out to be final. Clearly, getting the date of 1861
would be a rather unexpected and shocking. Nevertheless, we
should be ready for all kinds of surprises resulting from the
present version of the chronology, and the based on it history.