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Thanks so much for this fascinating commentary. Is there some way I could contact you about it. I have further thoughts about the graphic you have produced, that I could add. I would be interested to know how my thoughts gel with yours. Thanks
Elizabeth Ashley
The Secret Healer
Greetings to all with an interest in learning from our most successful Western ancestors in Minoan Crete, and thanks to Crete Gazette for this forum. Would like to point out that the Gazette had room for only a small part of the evidence for this lunar/solar cycle, whose central symbol is not the Bull-Leap Fresco but the Throne of Knossos itself (inscribed with moon, sun and mountain, and physically aligned with Winter Solstice).
When you see, rather, how this cycle is consistent with central evidences from Early Minoan to Homeric and Classical times (and with many other scholars’ findings), you’ll see that it is anything but “arbitrary.” Would it be less “arbitrary” if this cycle’s most detailed representation were found on a ring, a ceramic pot, or other object?
Also note that no translation of Linear A is necessary to this theory’s validity: we already know the Minoan number “1” and their sign for “moon” (a left-facing crescent), and both are part of the lunar/solar structure of the Fresco. Nor is there any use of “numbers from myths” here—so I can only hope that people who have examined all the evidence more carefully will then state and explain their points of view.
Don’t settle for these ironically arbitrary disparagements: find out for yourself, for that is what “Calendar House” enables you to do, step by step.
Great work thanks!
In Egyptian the Goddess, “Bes,” is the, “Sphinx, Chimera or Gryphon.” She is identical to the Sumerian Zu-Bird which is a creature formed of parts of each Zodiacal animal therefore the Zodiac anthropomorphized into a mythical beast. Sometimes this creature is a twin having one side with the Sun, the other naturally the moon, as the end of its cosmogony. You will notice in the fresco these bird-like creatures have five peacock-like curly feathers on their heads each with a single dot inside the curl. These are the five planets; Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn which cross the ecliptic along the axis of the beasts in the sky.
The twin chimeras are connected by the, ‘X’ of Orion in the middle. Orion as the man is Osiris on the serpent’s back in Egypt, and Vishnu sleeping on the serpent’s back in the Hindu and Varuna riding the serpent in Hindu. The, “serpent,” is the motion of the heavens which are serpent-like snaking up and down across the sky over the course of the year. The serpent is darkness, literally black or the night-time sky of outer space upon which the stars are fixed. In Sumerian the serpent in Tiamat and the, “man,” is her son, “Kingu,” the constellation of Orion.
Perhaps the leaping over the bull comes from Orion passing above the winter’s crescent on those few days each December-January period when the crescent moon is upturned, horns upward and low in the sky so that Orion passes above it during the evenings?
Thanks Much