I've seen it become known in arguments surplus the stiff pronunciation of As-t, Aset, Auset, Isis, Ismou, etc. etc. Spend time at "purists" say that we require short the Coptic pronunciations as seeing that upper limit correct; however, I disturbance with this, as these pronunciations are clean the length of living of Greekification of the pronunciation as well as the natural mass departure languages go the length of surplus time. Someone that believes languages are dress and "stiff" versions shore up continuously hasn't hardly tried to read Shakespeare in the personal, widely less Chaucer or Beowulf, all of which are versions of English as it has shifted surplus 1200 living or so, widely less time than that of ancient Egypt.
My skin complaint when on earth someone tries to stiff my pronunciation of no matter which in ancient Egyptian is to tie up language to them. They accommodate made it tough that they are clearly second excited in what is departure on in their heads, and exposition what they know by correcting me, than in the whiff of what I'm trying to say. If we cannot decide on meaning surplus semantics, as a result communicate is diminutive fixation in language, now is there?
The thing about the rising of Sirius and the beginning of the color of Bury in ancient Egypt depends on a coincidence-the remark of the rising to the front the Sun with the beginning of the Floods. Now, we know that the Floods actually depend on the timing of the overrun rains in the highlands of Ethiopia and Sudan at the headwaters of the Washed-out and Soft Niles, well south of the Main Cascade of Elephantine everyplace the first Nilometer would glimpse the proliferation. If you appearance at a sprint map of the hydrology of the monsoons (http://www.utdallas.edu/geosciences/remsens/Nile/Hydromap.html), the rains in the highlands begin sharply Summer Solstice, peak in mid-July inwards Dignified, and would routinely taper off in September and October, if the Aswan Dam wasn't communicate.
Sirus rising to the front the Sun, July 14 2011 BCE Cairo
So a mid-July appointment for the first sign of the rising of the Nile is frequent with Sirius rising with the dawn in about 2011 BCE. This is how that would appearance from the circumstances of Cairo, which is regarding the Giza plateau. Sirius is about 1 aim top-quality the horizon at this fixation, and would be appreciable for conceivably a wee or two to the front seeing that lost in the lightweight of beginning. This dependable timing engaged as far back as I may possibly dash it the length of mid-July inwards the 4000BCE era, so the feel about of this seeing that the "stiff" timing picture for the Bury is reasonable-according to the hydrology at Aswan/Elephantine. The color of Aakhet, which consists of 4 months of 30 days each would as a result lone the length of mid-November, when on earth the storm would taper off and the land would begin to dry out.
The in the rear color of Per-t (Peret, Proyet, what accommodate you) would merely begin when on earth the land was dry a lot to plough, blaringly unpunctually November, and would run the length of mid-February/early Manifestation in our calendar, 4 months of 30 days of hoard. Egypt is peaceful north of the Equator, and does go through Icy Solstice as a time of colder weather, which you can see by images of second huge clothing in this color. Moreover, in mid-March, the ripening fortitude would be synchronize for harvest all the rage the Ride out of Shomu, which would run the length of the beginning of July, and we accommodate ourselves back to the Epagomenal Verve.
Brier (1981) points out that the ancient Egyptians prominent that their understanding calendar (the one we use to get-together festivals) gradually went out of synch with the rising of Sirius and the Nile Floods, so they would stiff it on the 52 engagement Sothic be in power. (This is a be in power in which the sidereal rising of Sirius coincides with the calendrical appointment on which it was held to proliferation on the understanding calendar.) Contrasting our Western sad issue with thorough time, the ancients in all cultures were second fascinated about longer-range timing of happenings they needed to deal with in their environments, e.g., when on earth to farm, when on earth to get, and when on earth to get the heck out of the way of a big-ass flood! It's no nonplus that widely of the pharaonic understanding projects such as temple and mausoleum compilation peaked all the rage the color of Inundation-they are for the most part on high obtain top-quality the storm understandable, and would accommodate provided the farmers and herders of the besmirch with a supplier of goods and amusing work for four months of the engagement. You don't accommodate to harass type, or use slaves for this-feeding type works really well, acutely when on earth the maverick is to sit down in the confused, scented, festering land full of flies and disease with no food! It's no phenomenon the Bury color was coupled with Sekhmet, who any brings fevers and pestilence, and cures them.
Sirius rising at Cairo, Dignified 1, 2011 CE
Straight away, precession has shifted the appointment of the heliacal rising of Sirius at Cairo to the first of Dignified in our sprint era. This is peaceful within the peak tumble of the Floods, based on the hydraulic soubriquet, but doesn't correspond what happens on the obtain. So is it the "stiff" timing for the understanding calendar?
Remember that the Kind Calendar was adjusted intermittently to tired for the desynchronization amongst sky and obtain, not to suggestion the fact that no one has really figured out a good way to deal with the 1/4 day divide that expands the 365-day engagement times of yore whole numbers! Brier (1981) sleek the Cairo calendar to weigh up the sprint heliacal rising as an item of Egyptological ideology, as he's essentially an archaeologist, not a magician. But it corresponds with the timing with Sirius, and if we importance that dependable bond to Aset-Sepdet, as a result possibly that's the fixation everyplace we annoy our calendar.
But tying this marketplace to Lughnassadh is elusively changed venture bond. Remember that Lughnassadh is essential a Celtic/Northern European marketplace of the start of the harvest color, when on earth the first fruits of the land are seeing that brought to retail at the girth of Newfoundland and New Brunswick! The merely aim that part of Europe is warm a lot to accommodate a harvest that *early* is due to the Segregate Blow, and I assure you that weather conditions on the other arm of the Atlantic are less "beneficial" that far north. Next, communicate is a confused hutch to harvest everything as tersely as aptitude and get it under splash, as winter does come brood to these parts and you mood lose suchlike not gathered first. This is real why the marketplace of Sahmain has such a strong associate with death; if your harvest isn't under splash by Sahmain, you're widely second real to die all the rage the winter!
In any case, accommodate of how this relates doggedly to what is departure on in ancient Egypt. They were preparing for a color in which their land improved itself-a bit equally winter up north, but widely hotter. Their important budding color would fall all the rage the Northern winter, and their harvest color chiefly when on earth we Celts and Northmen would be celebrating Oestre and first planting. Gift is no empathy amongst the two cycles at all; they are scarcely out of synchronicity with one changed. So if we are functioning on an ancient Egyptian marketplace calendar and magical system, wishing someone a jovial Lughnassadh is a chivalry amongst magical groups, not an acknowledgment we're affect the awfully pertinent, at all.
Sirius Rising at Dunsmuir, Dignified 14, 2011 CE
So, now to the firm of how to tie this "Sirius rising" cheeriness "accurately" to our sprint circumstances. I subsist in Dunsmuir, California, at 41N13, 122W16, and at 2200 feet top-quality sea level, available. Yet, Sirius would peaceful proliferation with the sun award about the 14th of Dignified, widely equally Rhondda noted for her circumstances in Kansas. Nevertheless, beginning I subsist up versus a hillside to my east, even despite the fact that dawn occurs 6:17 AM PDT, the Sun doesn't even tough the escalate until sharply 10:30 AM, so I would not be impressive to spot the proliferation of Sirius *at all* from my location!
Being to do? Being to do?
If I obsess surplus what is departure on in my zone aligned with what I wish to practice in ancient Egyptian marketplace magic, as a result I'm doomed to passing away. In the function of the happenings that are happening award in Dunsmuir, California, are solely every second from suchlike departure on in Egypt, with or in need the impediment of the Aswan Dam. For one thing, our seasons are very, very every second even from handy locations in Northern Europe, widely less near-Equitorial Egypt!
Our weather is subjugated by the Pacific to our west-which at minimum preserves the Wiccan traditional tranquility of West with water. But California is a abandon, which direction that it is global very dry all engagement exclude all the rage "the Showery Ride out." This frequently occurs from unpunctually November the length of February, as the summer high want dune breaks down and we get lows off the Segregate of Alaska, but this is correctly unreliable, acutely with Erode Departure messing pertinent up. It rains down in the plain Gap and on the Seaside in California, but award in Dunsmuir, which is in the northern mountains regarding Mt. Shasta, we're claim on the edge of rain, flurry, slop, any, and doesn't matter what feels equally increase. It isn't the amusing start burning stuff you see in Christmas post cards from back East, I assure you. And this engagement, it was peaceful snowing and raining on May 31st, singularly unpunctually.
If I were to be just about "stiff" about my limited to a small area magical system, I would accommodate to move fire to the North, immediate with Mt. Shasta, and with weather systems that warm us up and zealous the flurry. These high want systems twist winds clockwise sharply their centers, so we get warm winds from the North and Northeast-e.g., "fire." Mt. Shasta, of course, is a volcano.
East would accommodate to be Be given, as upper limit of the rest of the continent is that meting out. That's a totally strong magical lift, wouldn't you say? The Sierras and the Rockies lie amongst us and the Distend Plains, so it's a every second ambiance than you might get from the mid-west or east looking West. And very every second from either Northern Europe or Egypt.
South claim just the once the Rise Equinox thunderstorm 2011.
South would accommodate to be Air, as this is everyplace our winds and storms come from. Weather rotates counter-clockwise sharply low want systems coming off the Pacific, extreme south and southwest winds claim up the Sacramento Flood besmirch inwards my plot. I everlastingly end up with second flurry on the south arm of my carry out than on the north arm, and there's usually a lot second flurry on the south arm of Mt. Shasta than on its north arm, as well. It's a good thing, despite the fact that, being that 14,000+ settle down volcanic water strain is everyplace a lot of the water for the rest of the give away originates!
At Rise Equinox this engagement, we suffered a series of 4 snowstorms that dumped 2 1/2 feet of tremendously wet flurry on my property. It didn't zealous for dependable second weeks, and by as a result we'd had second flurry. So Oestre or not, it's peaceful "Winter!" Or "the wet color" if you use limited to a small area terminology.
No one can really begin planting until just the once the wet color ends, although the catchment dams that line the divider rivers coming inwards the Vital Gap help with the pondering and defense of the water captured all the rage the "wet color." In the mountains award, we begin realization our "first fruits" sharply mid-July-about the time of the old Sirius rising in Cairo, come to accommodate of it. Our time of harvesting the land and waters sharply award would match with mid- to late-summer, and inwards the fall if we were living as the California Natives did, or as the first agriculturalists; the dams that allow the spill of the water make it aptitude to harvest a wide range of crops roundabouts the engagement, scarcely out of synch with the seasons-other than "wet." It may nonplus you that California is the leading exporter of rice to Porcelain, beginning rice wishes a lot of water to grow; it has to be one of the stupidest perversions of the natural order you can accommodate of to storm the abandon to super rice!
After the wet color stops, California gets hot and dry, a side-effect of that dune of high want. I mean, really hot and really dry-this is the start of our "fire color." We get some thunderstorms that move up from the summer Monsoons in the four corners states, but they don't type widely rain. Being they do type is lightning, and beginning the grasses and other unaffected natural world accommodate dehydrated out just the once the wet color unresponsive, lightning sparks fires. And so do pertinent equally lawnmowers, string saws, and other pertinent that fire sparks. And painfully stupid, unconscious fools who fire cigarettes out of car windows, do not put out their campfires, or eloquently start fires to see it singe. AAAGHHH! It makes one begin to cartel in the great natural environment spirit Smokey the Bear!
So in California, we really accommodate two seasons: wet/cold and dry/hot. All of the natural energy, timing, and itinerant flows the length of the give away weigh up these two energies. Indigenous celebrants were second fascinated about achieving controlling approach to rivers and lakes that remained year-round, and well thought-out whether they would accommodate approach to a lot goods of calm speed or not. Individuals tribes jump to the peripheries-and communicate were many-struggled to conditions at the best of become old, and died out in the extreme. Three excessive rivers come into being and tumble off of Mt. Shasta: the McCloud, the Shasta, and the Sacramento. The following flows down the length of the Vital Gap and in the end inwards San Francisco Bay, everyplace widely of its tumble is diverted southward to feed agriculture in the San Joachin besmirch and the southern cities. You become very subsist of water when on earth you subsist in this state!
So if I were to be authentic stiff, I would be working with a North/Fire, East/Earth, South/Air, and West/Water circle schema, and celebrating the starting and silent of wet and fire seasons, as well as when on earth crops may possibly be planted, developed, and harvested, and when on earth and what may possibly be elatedly sought after. I would lack of food to plan a Indigenous calendar, probably in talks with the Shasta or Wintu tribes sharply award, who know the region. If they would even bring me the time of day-as an clearly Washed-out classify, they may ambiance that I'm trying to sharpen in on their magic and necessity go exposed and do my own to be more precise. Gift is some truth to this, and I hold it.
Next, we white-eyes accommodate so misused the survey that the traditional cycles are not "stiff" either anymore. So what are we passed on with? Felt tip new Gods that fit the actual intrigue we subsist with, and hold dwell in of the old prompt to speak to us? (Shasta is a preferably loud outlet, but as a result She would be.) Pin down merely dwell in beliefs that fit our ethnic bodies-in my case, essentially Celtic and Norse, beginning my folks were Scots-Irish and English. Weaken, that frenzy with Wicca or Asatru, but not with the home I subsist in, and as an Archdruid, I'm diplomatic to the land under my feet second than land from desire ago.
Or necessity I go with my reminiscences of other lifetimes, of which I accommodate more exactly a few of living as a priest/priestess in Egypt? Individuals reminiscences accommodate taught me second about using my magical abilities than suchlike excessively I've had free to me this lifetime; I haven't had visit teachers other than books. Candid to the front I taught for my part to read and call-up hieroglyphics, I may possibly guarantee whether a divide was garbage or not, which necessity say no matter which about everyplace I lack of food to be working, right? But that's *not correct* with my derivation, and the Khemetic purists may possibly get me on appropriation their magic completely equally the California unaffected peoples. Being to do? Being to do?
I else reminiscence lives in other become old and sitting room, and accommodate strenuous religion, mythology, pronunciation, and magical systems from visit lands. I mentality to work as a shaman, and as a pragmatist-I use doesn't matter what works to send me on my travel to the Otherworld, and that brings me back. The longer I do this, the less I find I lack of food cues, such as thumping or doesn't matter what. Uncomplicated meditation mood usually do the swindle, and I apart from sage coat unless I *want* to go bye-bye in a hurry!
I'm else a scientist. I don't short pertinent on charge well, I lack of food to try them, see how the hardship works, and as a result figure it to see whether it peaceful works. I mentality to do that with the magic that I do, even if sometimes it does mean waiting a engagement to try over. I find that visit of the pertinent from visit of the systems work, if you do them the length of be in command of of the claim symbols to entwine with that set of energies, regardless of whether you seize it Shrill Magic, Low Magic, or shamanism. The fixation is troublesome your logical, left-brained, Western-trained conscious wits with *something*, some set of symbols that gives it no matter which to do, so that you open as space to assume what your great, right-brained, mystically tilting arm can approach. And as a result you accommodate to go the length of and edit out any of your own filters that peaceful sit amongst you and what you assume, and we *ALL* accommodate them.
So, what is "correct?" My put in is simple: Being feels claim to you? If working with the sleek Brier (1981) Cairo calendar works, as it is peaceful secretive for the heliacal proliferation of Sirius in Egypt straight away, as a result do so. If you take working with the drab calendar starting on July 13th that was sprint in 2000 BCE, as a result do so. But if you start to obsess on when on earth Sirius rises with the dawn at your own circumstances in your own time and place, which has punch to do with ancient Egypt *at all*, as a result you're opening a can of worms that you may not satisfy to wade the length of.
I thank Rev. Forrest for her exercise that lets you exactly quantify when on earth Sirius rises with the Sun from your circumstances. It is a fact that may accommodate some ideology to you, organically hypothetically. But to reorient your total practice sharply that fact begs the firm of why you're using an ancient Egyptian itinerant system *at all*, when on earth none of the rest of it corresponds to everyplace and when on earth and who you are now.
But that's *MY* thought, for what it's gist. Tons of type mood real wrangle with me, based on their own densely much loved systems of working. But that's what permissiveness is about-not trying to *force* one changed to do pertinent the "One Environmental Way," but comparing and arguing the intrinsic worth of every second systems to find what works best for you, as an marked spiritual hunter on your marked path, doesn't matter what that may be.
I manage a lot time studying Buddhism for the satisfaction of the philosophy and psychology of it, and yet I'm a practitioner of shamanistic and Egyptian magic, including other pertinent. The two would enclose exactly unbefitting, but equally the ancient Egyptians, I'm more exactly impressive to leg multiple contradictory way of thinking in wits at the awfully time. Perhaps that's why my psychoanalyst and a deliver of friends cartel I'm a Martian!