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Post by whistler on Nov 9, 2004 7:04:58 GMT
We all know J & B as the pillars at the porchway, It is claimed that these originally represented the North and South Pole Stars. They were at first the pillars of Horus and set, but their names were afterwards changed to Tat of Ta-at and Tattu.- (translate that Brn) Tattu is the entrance to the region where the mortal soul is blended with the immortal spirit and thereby established for ever. Many authors speak of the North Pole and South Pole Star. There isn't any South Pole Star - any clue what they are refering to.
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Post by offramp on Nov 10, 2004 18:30:50 GMT
I have never heard of this. Who said this? There is no South Pole Star.
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Post by whistler on Nov 11, 2004 2:44:39 GMT
I have never heard of this. Who said this? There is no South Pole Star. From a book by C W Leadbetter 33rd Degree. He goes on to say when in fact there isno Star of consequence at the south Pole, The nearest star of consequence is at the foot of the Southern Cross, which is no less than 27 degrees from the south pole. On top of the two columns in the very ancient symbolism there were at first four lines or cross sticks, which are the symbols of heaven and earth
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Post by offramp on Nov 11, 2004 4:30:53 GMT
I suppose Leadbetter may have a point. If the ancients knew that the earth was round they may have thought that since there was a North Pole Star that there was probably a south Pole Star.
But surely Horus and Set are both in the north.
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Post by ruffashlar on Nov 11, 2004 5:23:19 GMT
The North and South Poles have these names because they were originally conceived of as the two ends of a vast spindle which transpierced the Earth as 'twere a pickled onion on a skewer.
In the maps of Mercator (alluded to by Poe in "Descent into the Maelstrom"), the oceans of the world are depicted emptying by four estuaries into a pit at the globe's crown, out of which rises a slender black pillar, the literal Pole, and the Lodestone to which all compass needles were supposed to be drawn. The northernmost star of the constellation The Little Bear, which is in fact also the northernmost star in the heavens, coincides almost exactly with the centre of the sky to an observer standing on the Magnetic North Pole. This is the North Star, also called the Lodestar or Polestar, and the Cynosure or "dog's tail".
In the Southern Hemisphere, the northern and southern arms of the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, are aligned to point in a straight line directly at the South Pole. The Pole itself is not marked by any bright star; although a radius taken from that star which marks the right-angle in triangular Octans at a length of five degrees of latitude describes a circle which will find the true Pole upon its circumference, where it is bisected by the line from Crux.
So while there is a North Polestar, there's no corresponding southern one. Don't believe everything you read, especially not if it's full of pseudo-Egyptian references.
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