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286 The Secret History of the World
period the “year of Meton”. At the time of this appearance of the god he both plays
on the cithara and dances continuously the night through from the vernal equinox
until the rising of the Pleiades, expressing in this manner his delight in his
successes. And the kings of this city and the supervisors of the sacred precinct are
called Boreades, since they are descendants of Boreas, and the succession to these
positions is always kept in their family. 194
I would like to note immediately how similar the above story of the Maenads
murdering their husbands is to the story of the daughters of Danaus murdering
their husbands on the wedding night connected to the story of the massacre at the
Cloisters of Ambrius attributed much later to Hengist and Horsa. Keeping in mind
that the Danaans were the family of the hero Perseus who cut off the head of
Medusa, while comparing this to the beheading of Orpheus and his “singing” head
floating down the river. The two themes, wives murdering husbands and a
significant beheading are startling enough to give us pause. Was an original legend
then later adapted to a different usage, assimilated to a different group or tribe?
More than once?
In any event, we have discovered a most interesting little collection of things all
in one place. First a “round temple” on an island that can only be Britain, may be
describing Stonehenge and the way in which it was utilized by a group of people.
Next we see that Diodorus is suggesting that the 19-year lunar calendar is a
product of the Hyperboreans and that it relates to a period in which the “return of
the stars” is accomplished. We realize immediately that these “stars” must refer to
a geometric relationship between the Sun, Moon and Earth, rather than the “stars”
in terms of real stars and the planets because they certainly do not “return” to any
particular position every nineteen years. And we now suspect that this may have
something to do with a gravitational node of a three-body system.
We begin to think that these ancient people really knew something!
In the Temple of Apollo, we also find that there are musicians whose job it is to
continually play in the temple and sing, and the most famous of ancient singers
and musicians is associated with the worship of Apollo. This suggests to us the
possible use of sound for something; the utilization of gravitational nodes,
perhaps?
There is an additional puzzle here. What did it mean that every nineteen years a
god “dances” from the vernal equinox until the rising of the Pleiades? This
suggests to us a very specific date is being recorded in this myth. The heliacal
rising of the Pleiades does not happen every 19 years. So, aside from telling us
about a regular event that occurred every nineteen years, the myth has recorded
something else very significant, the date of which is internal to the myth. When
did the Pleiades rise just before the sun on the vernal equinox?
194 Diodorus, op. cit..