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These 'Diagonal star tables' or star charts are also known as 'diagonal star clocks'. In the past they have also been known as 'star calendars', or 'decanal clocks'. [10] These star charts featuring the paintings of Egyptian deities, decans, constellations, and star observations are also found on the ceilings of tombs and temples.
The sky goddess Nut and human figures representing stars and constellations from the star chart in the tomb of Ramses VI. The Book of Nut (original title: The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars) is a collection of ancient Egyptian astronomical texts focusing on mythological subjects, cycles of the stars of the decans, and the movements of the moon, sun, and planets on sundials.
A Middle Kingdom star chart A hieroglyphic calendar at Elephantine Further information: Sothic cycle The civil calendar was established at some early date in or before the Old Kingdom , with probable evidence of its use early in the reign of Shepseskaf ( c. 2510 BC, Dynasty IV ) and certain attestation during the reign of Neferirkare (mid-25th ...
'Diagonal star table' from the late 11th Dynasty coffin lid; found at Asyut, Egypt. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim. The decans (/ ˈ d ɛ k ən z /; Egyptian bꜣktw or baktiu, "[those] connected with work" [1]) are 36 groups of stars (small constellations) used in the ancient Egyptian astronomy to conveniently divide the 360 degree ecliptic into 36 parts of 10 degrees each, both for ...
In the case of the Sothic cycle the two cycles are the Egyptian civil year and the Sothic year. The Sothic year is the length of time for the star Sirius to visually return to the same position in relation to the sun. Star years measured in this way vary due to axial precession, [9] the movement of the Earth's axis in relation to the sun.
The stars of Orion were associated with Osiris, the god of rebirth and afterlife by the ancient Egyptians. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Depending on the version of the idea, additional pyramids can be included to complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and the Nile river can be included to match with the Milky Way .
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The Indestructibles (Ancient Egyptian: j.ḫmw-sk – literally "the ones not knowing destruction" [1] [2]) was the name given by ancient Egyptian astronomers to two bright stars which, at that time, could always be seen circling the North Pole. [3]