Black Genesis (41 page)

11.
Quoted by Peter Ackroyd, “Afloat on the Nile,”
New York Times,
October 2, 1988.

12.
Richard Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000), 165.

13.
Ron Wells, “Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine,”
Studien Zur Altagyptischen Kultur
12 (1985), 258. See also Gunther Roeder, “Sothis und Satis,”
Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache,
Band 45, Leipzig 1908, pp. 22–30.

14.
Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
165.

15.
Wells, “Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine,” 258.

16.
From the declaration of Ptolemy I as pharaoh of Egypt in 305 BCE to the death of Cleopatra in 30 BCE.

17.
Data from the in situ information board by the German and Swiss Archaeological Team. See also Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
212; Wells, “Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine: A Direct Connection,” 255.

18.
Wells, “Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine,” 258–62.

19.
Ibid.

20.
J. A. Belmonte and M. Shaltout, “On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples I: Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia,” in
Journal of the History of Astronomy
(Pre-print series: PP 03/2005), 21, figure 8.

21.
Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
211.

22.
Adapted from E. A. Wallis Budge,
Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
(New York: Dover, 1994).

23.
Ibid.

24.
Herodotus,
The Histories,
Book II, chapter 28.

25.
Pliny the Elder,
The Natural History,
Book V, chapter 10.

26.
Budge,
Legends of the Egyptian Gods
.

27.
Wells, “Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine,” 262.

28.
Rolf K. Krauss, “Probleme des Altagyptischen Kalendars und der Chronologie des Mittleren und Neuen Reiches in Agypten,” Ph.D. dissertation, Freie University, Berlin, 1981. See also R. Krauss, “Sothis, Elephantine und d. Altagypt Chronologie,”
Gottinger Miszellen
50 (1981): 71–81.

29.
L. Rose, “The Astronomical Evidence for Dating the End of the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt to the Early Second Millennium: A Reassessment,”
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
53 (1994): 246.

30.
Strabo,
Geography,
Book XVII.

31.
Budge,
Legends of the Egyptian Gods.

32.
M. Lichtheim,
Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings,
vol. 3 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 94–100.

33.
Norman Lockyer,
The Dawn of Astronomy
(London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1894), 236.

34.
G. A. Wainwright, “Seshat and the Pharaoh,”
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
26 (1941): 30–40.

35.
E. C. Krupp,
Echoes of the Ancient Skies
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 212.

36.
Wainwright, “Seshat and the Pharaoh.”

37.
Anne-Sophie Bomhard,
The Egyptian Calendar: A Work for Eternity
(London: Periplus, 1998), 4.

38.
George Hart,
A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
(London: Rout-ledge and Kegan Paul, 1988), 193.

39.
I. E. S. Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt
(London: Penguin, 1982), 249–50.

40.
Martin Isler quoting R. W. Stoley, “Primitive Methods of Measuring Time with Special Reference to Egypt,”
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
17 (1931),

41.
Z. Zaba,
L'Orientation Astronomique Dans L'Ancienne Egypte et la Precession de l'Axe du Monde
(Prague: n.p., 1953), 58–59.

42.
See R. Bauval,
The Egypt Code
(London: Century Books, 2006) and T. Brophy,
The Origin Map
(Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, 2002).

43.
Anne-Sophie Bomhard,
The Egyptian Calendar: A Work for Eternity,
2.

44.
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz,
The Temples of Karnak,
(Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2001), 1.

45.
Jean Kerisel,
The Nile and Its Masters: Past, Present, Future Source of Hope and Anger
(Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 2001), 37.

46.
Donald B. Redford, ed.,
The Ancient Gods Speak
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 254.

47.
Mark Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 29.

48.
A. Chapman,
Gods in the Sky: Astronomy from the Ancients to the Renaissance
(London: Channel 4 Books, 2002), 32–33.

49.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
28.

50.
Lucie Lamy,
Egyptian Mysteries
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981), 48.

51.
R. Bauval, “A Master Plan for the Three Pyramids of Giza Based on the Configuration of the Three Stars of the Belt of Orion,”
Discussions in Egyptology
13 (1989), pp. 7–19.

52.
Herodotus,
The Histories,
Book II: 18–24.

53.
Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
45.

54.
See also Richard Parker,
The Calendars of Ancient Egypt
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950). For a recent discussion on the Sothic Cycle, see Paul Jordan,
Riddles of the Sphinx
(New York: New York University Press, 1998), 35–37.

55.
Robert Burnham Jr.,
Burnham's Celestial Handbook
, vol. 1 (New York: Dover Publications, 1978), 387.

56.
Ibid.

57.
E. C. Krupp,
Echoes of the Ancient Skies
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 22.

58.
R. W. Sloley, “Primitive Methods of Measuring Time, with Special Reference to Egypt,”
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
17 (1930): 167.

59.
Krupp,
Echoes of the Ancient Skies,
23.

60.
Censorinus,
De Die Natali,
translated by Holt N. Parker (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2007).

61.
Rundle Clark,
Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt,
Thames and Hudson, London 1978, p. 27.

62.
Ibid., 263.

63.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
29.

64.
Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
284, 286.

65.
G. J. Whitrow,
Time in History: View of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 26.

66.
Stephen Quirke,
The Cult of Ra
(London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), 116.

67.
Nathalie Beaux, “Sirius étoile et Jeune Horus,”
Hommages a Jean Leclant, Insitute Français D'Archéologie Orientale, Biblitheque D'Etude
106, no. 1 (1993).

68.
Francis A. Cunningham, “The Sothic Cycle Used by the Egyptians,”
Journal of the American Oriental Society
34 (1915): 369–73.

69.
Ibid.

70.
M. F. Ingham, “The Length of the Sothic Cycle,”
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
55 (1969): 36–40.

71.
Jaromir Malek and John Baines,
The Cultural Atlas of the World: Ancient Egypt
(Alexandria, Va.: Stonehenge, 1991), 36.

72.
Juan Belmonte, “Some Open Questions on the Egyptian Calendar: An Astronomer's View,”
Trabajos de Egyptologia
, no. 2 (2003): 10.

73.
Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
37. See also Jaroslav Cerny, “The Temple as an Abbreviated Name for the Temple of Medinet Habu,” in
JEA
26 (1940), p. 127.

74.
Krupp,
Echoes of Ancient Skies,
258.

75.
Baines and Malek,
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
(New York: Facts on File Publications, 1980), 112.

76.
For a full discussion on the Followers of Horus, see Bauval and Hancock,
Keeper of Genesis
(London: Heinemann, 1996).

77.
H. Brugsch,
Egypt
(n.p., 1891), 189, quoted by Lockyer,
The Dawn of Astronomy,
204–5.

78.
Lockyer,
The Dawn of Astronomy,
204–5.

79.
Wilkinson,
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt,
205.

80.
Pyramid Texts, line 351.

81.
Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson,
The Illustrated Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
(Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2008), 112.

82.
Pyramid Texts, Utterance 263.

83.
Ibid., line 865.

84.
Ibid., lines 351–53.

85.
Ibid., lines 1000–1001.

86.
Henri Frankfort,
Kingship and the Gods
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 90.

87.
Thomas Brophy,
The Origin Map
(Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, 2002), 15–18.

88.
A. Mariette,
Denderah: Description Generale du grand temple de cette Ville,
vol. 1, Paris-Cairo: n.p., 1875) 142, 263.

89.
Beaux “Sirius, Etoile et Jeune Horus,” 64, note 14.

90.
Krupp,
Echoes of the Ancient Skies,
257.

91.
Ibid., 258.

92.
Ibid.

93.
Lockyer,
The Dawn of Astronomy,
193.

94.
Ibid., 200.

95.
Mariette,
Denderah,
206. See also Lockyer,
The Dawn of Astronomy,
194.

96.
Z. Zaba,
L'Orientation Astronomique dans L'Ancienne Egypte et la Precession de l'axe du monde
(Prague: n.p., 1953), 59.

97.
Private correspondence with Robert Bauval, October 8, 1986.

98.
Sylvie Cauville-Colin, “Le Temple D'Isis a Dendera,”
Bulletin de la Societe Francaise d'Egyptologie
123 (March 1992): 31–48.

99.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
120.

100.
The story is told in the
Westcar Papyrus
(Berlin Museum). See Miroslav Verner,
Abusir: Realm of Osiris
(Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002), 70.

101.
Malek and Baines,
The Cultural Atlas: Ancient Egypt,
154.

102.
Verner,
Abusir: The Realm of Osiris.

103.
David G. Jeffreys, “The Topography of Heliopolis and Memphis: Some Cognitive Aspects,” in R Stadelmann, H. Guksch, and D Polz, eds.,
Stationen: Beitrage zur Kulturgeschichte Agyptens
(Mainz: von Zabern, 1998), 63–71.

104.
For hieroglyphic signs and allocated code, visit:
http://pagesperso-­orange.fr/­hieroglyphes/­Hieroglyphica%­20=%20A.htm
.

105.
Stefan Kröpelin and Rudolph Kuper
,
“More Corridors to Africa,” in B. Gratien, ed.,
Mélanges offerts à Francis Geus
(Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Université Charles-de-Gaulle, 2007), 219–29.

APPENDIX 1. BACK TO THE FIRST TIME: VEGA, SIRIUS, AND ORION AGREE AT GIZA

1.
Wendorf,
Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara,
vol. 1, 489.

2.
W. M. F. Petrie,
The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh
(London, n.p., 1883).

3.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids.

4.
Petrie,
The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.

5.
RA = 201.03, Dec = 287.47 milliarcseconds per year. From SIMBAD Astronomical Database,
http://simbad.u-­strasbg.fr/­simbad/­simid?protocol­=html&­Ident=vega
(accessed February 2010).

6.
RA = -546.05, Dec = -1223.14 milliarcseconds per year. From SIMBAD Astronomical Database,
http://simbad.u-­strasbg.fr/­simbad/­sim-id?Ident=Sirius&­NbIdent=1&Radius=2&­Radius.unit=­arcmin&submit=­submit+id
(accessed February 2010).

7.
An online calculator is available at htp://wise-obs.tau.ac.il.

8.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
17.

9.
See R. M. Schoch, “Geological Evidence Pertaining to the Age of the Great Sphinx,”
New Scenarious on the Evolution of the Solar System and Consequences on History of Earth and Man,
Emilio Spedicato and Adalberto Notarpietro, editors, Proceedings of the Conference, Milano and Bergamo, June 7–9, 1999, Universita degil Studi di Bergamo, Quaderni del Dipartmento di Matematica, Statistica, Informatica ed Applicazion, Serie Miscellanea, Anno 2002, N.3, pp. 171–203 (also available online at www .robertschoch.com/geodarasphinx.htm).

10.
R. M. Schoch,
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders
(New York: Tarcher and Putnam, 2003).

11.
Alberto Siliotti,
Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt
(New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1997).

12.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids.

13.
Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt
.

14.
Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
17.

15.
Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
86.

16.
R. M. Schoch and R. A. McNally,
Pyramid Quest
(New York: Penguin, 2005), 27.

17.
Manly P. Hall,
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Radford, Va.: Wilder, 2007).

18.
Siliotti,
Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt,
preface by Zahi Hawass.

19.
Klaus Schmidt:
Sie bauten die ersten Tempel. Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger
(München: n.p., 2006).