Perhaps the oldest known document pertaining to the 104-Year Venus Round period is the Venus Tablet of King Ammizaduga. The cuneiform clay tablet is thought to include tabulated observations of the planet Venus for some twenty-one years of Ammizaduga's reign, 1646 - 1626 BCE. The First Babylonian Dynasty king ruled with the advice of written Omens.
Tablet K 160 is dated in the 8 th century BCE and thought to be a copy.
The famous surviving example is also known as Tablet 63 or K 160 from
the collection: Enuma Anu Enlil of the Nineveh (Kuyunjik) library, of
the Assyrian king, Assurbanipal (Simpson, 2005). The estimated text
composition date is 1581 BCE. Omen texts were once popular sources that gave rise to astrological predictions. Ideas of celestial intervention mix with Aphrodite’s fertility issues and romance in the later Greco-Roman times.
Middle Eastern religions drew a surge of interest in the latter half of the 19th century from European intellectual circles. The science of biblical archeology
was in its infancy. Two noteworthy writers, F. X. Kugler and George
Smith contributed fascinating discoveries and translations of cuneiform
tablets. F. X. Kugler (1909) published the German two volume set:
Sternkunde und Sterndienst Sterndienst in Babel, II that includes the 8-solar-year synodic period of Venus.
...Venus
8 years behind thee come back...4 days thou shalt subtract...Mercury 6
years behind thee come back...the phenomena of Mars 47 years...12 days
more...shalt thou observe...the phenomena of Saturn 59 years...come back
day for day shalt thou observe...the phenomena of Sirius 27 years...come back day for day shalt thou observe... (p. 45).
The above tablet from 380 BCE confirms Babylonians knew synodic periods of the planets, or wanderings stars. Similar tablets have shown that Babylonian priest-astronomers were calculating eclipses, synodic periods and helical risings since the 6th century BCE (History, 2004, para 1). Note two other items: the instruction to subtract 4-days and the 27-year phenomena of Sirius. The first bears a direct relationship to the Mayan Dresden Codex above that begins the full 8-solar-year synodic period of Venus on the fourth day following the helical rising. Sirus’ phenomena likely refers to synchronous Venus vs. Sirius 364 Day & Year single term organization and concepts respecting numerical matching.
Animation showing a complete cycle of inferior
planet aspects from one inferior conjunction
to the next (i.e. one synodic period).
The animation is viewed from a point in space
above the Earth's North pole and moves along
with the Earth in its orbit. The blue line marks
a fixed point in space at which the two planets
are initially in alignment (in this case, at
inferior conjunction). Note that all the major
planets revolve around the Sun in an
anti-clockwise sense when seen from above the
Earth's North pole. The number of days elapsed
(since inferior conjunction) apply specifically
to Venus; note that by the time Venus reaches
inferior conjunction for the second time, the
Earth has completed just over 1½ orbits - hence
the synodic period of 584-days. The
orbits are not shown to scale.
Venus has a dark side in the occult arts. Arcane symbolism for Venus recognizes the 5-point star or pentagram. Five successive helical risings of Venus map remnant traces of the five-point star. The last bright star at night appears at five slightly varied positions over 2920-days or 8-solar-years before being lost to full daylight. Five dawn heliacal risings have given rise to the ancient astrological pentagram symbol. Attachments to goddess Venus link the pentagram with baser instincts of human sexuality. A 266-day period between conjunction and maximum elongation corresponds more or less to the length of human pregnancy. Pagan symbolismm encircles an upright pentacle
to represent a body. Head and spirit image the top point. Four
remaining limb star points associate with the natural elements of Earth,
Fire, Water, and Air. Beauty, vanity, pride and sexuality share many goddess characteristics in the mystical realm. Satanism inverts the pentacle, pointing two horns of a demonic goat's head up. Lines blur between ancient astronomy or the appropriate label, archeo-astronomy, when one investigates Mesopotamian cosmology. The Antediluvian Calendar carries Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round 3 Age with all the stigma of an esoteric pentagram throughout history. Venus correlates with masculine or feminine gender in pagan worship, depending upon culture.
Delving deeply into human antiquities does expose dormant knowledge. Forbidden idols and deities are often token calendar segments. Intention or accident may ignite distinct possibilities that instantaneously change both past and future. Chain reactions can potentially strip any event, people or thing from history. Alternate realities may suddenly occur or disappear. Inspired spirituality stirs cauldrons in the past to deliberately reach future heavenly stars. Mortal, fleshly people learn to fear the eternal Lord. Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round 3 Age is the candid guide to the Jewish 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round (S 105-Y VR) and the Mayan & Egyptian 104-Year Venus Round (S 104-Y VR). Association of Baal, or phonetic Bel , and his feminine Astarte/Ishtar fertility consort, centers with astrological fervor upon Babylonian and Assyrian calendar worship. Standing stones and sacred pillars were physical artifacts designed to let observers sight heavenly bodies. A myriad of stories reveal the Sun, Moon and Venus were the Mesopotamian triad of astral worship. In heaven and on earth was the typical premise inherent to divine literature.
Venus sets forth three Solar-Side, or Star-Side time splits. Seth 400-Year Baktun Cycle 3 originates Jewish Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round 3 Age (S 105-Y VR 3) as the first Solar-Side time split. Ethiopic-years precisely count 364 day-years, having 52-even-weeks, and reserving the Holy One day for Day & Year numerical matching purposes. Mayan & Egyptian Seth Primary 104-Year Venus Round 3 Age (S 104-Y VR 3) renders 104-solar-year Venus Round versions. Solar-years typically measure 365-days. Cainan Primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year Age advances the Antediluvian Calendar from Seth's ages to gain the second Solar-Side time split.
Demonstrated use of the Ethiopic 364 Day & Year single term mainly involves the Jewish 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round. Cainan is the third generation following Adam and correlates his Primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year Age as the second Solar-Side time split. ??? Cainan Primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year Age calculates by advancing Solar-Side separation time from Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Venus Round 3 Age. Similar methods used to derive Seth's Solar-Side Primary Age derives Cainan's Primary Age.
Solar-Side 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycle 1 completes with Jewish Seth’s Solar-Side 210-Ethiopic-year total, obtained after Venus Round 3-4, plus converted Cainan’s 50-Ethiopic-year Primary Age. Twice Seth’s Primary Age is 210-Ethiopic-years. The equivalent 364-Tzolken-sacred-years are the full conversion to 260 day-Tzolken-sacred-years. Cainan’s Primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year Age returns via reverse conversion back to 50-Ethiopic-years that have 364-days each. The calculated 70-Tzolken-sacred-years multiply by 260 day-Tzolken-sacred-years for 18,200-days in Cainan's Primary Age (Eqn. 12). Equation 13 divides Cainan’s 18,200-day Primary Age by 364 day-Ethiopic-years to convert Cainan’s Primary 50-Ethiopic-year Age. Solar-Side 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycle 1 concludes with 210-Ethiopic-years that add with Cainan’s 50-Ethiopic-years to finalize two equivalent Solar-Side Cycles: a 260-Year Tzolken-Sacred-Cycle consisting of 364 day-Ethiopic-years or the 364 year-Ethiopic-cycle consisting of 260 day-Tzolken-sacred-years.
The 364 day-Ethiopic-year neatly fits the Antediluvian Calendar. Closer inspection of the 364 day-Ethiopic-year reveals interesting numerical matching facts concerning this marvelous early calendar system. Seth Primary 105-Ethiopic-year Age utilizes a 360 day-Tun-year in conjunction with the Ethiopic 364 Day & Year single term. Solar-Side 4-day time split that follows. The 100 Days & Years single term generates exactly 400-days of difference between 100-years of 360-days and 364-days. Concentric circles of time replicate significant patterns arising from the 400 Day & Year single term. The 400-Year Baktun Cycle acquires further meaning relevant to the Ethiopic 364 Day & Year single term. Ultimately, the 800-Year Generaion Cycle is the longest instrument gained from characters within the Antediluvian Calendar.
Integral calculations exist for the 260 day-Tzolken-year and the 364 day-Ethiopic-year dual calendar system. One Jewish 50-Ethiopic-year Jubilee Cycle is equivalent to 70-Tzolken-sacred-years. Scattered mention of 70-years
indicates this finite period had relevance to predefined terms of
leadership. Government positions and priesthood stations were limited
according to 70-year ??? increments. The 70 Day & Year single term encompasses Cainan Primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year Age.
Revise para. The ancient Egyptian Calendar solar year of 365-days was adopted by the Roman Empire in 45 BCE. Julius Caesar chose to omit Leap Day calculations in his namesake Julian Calendar. began anew every 1460-Year Sothic Cycle according to the Old Style Julian Calendar. The Egyptian Calendar preceeded the Julian Calendar. Sothic Cycle dating accrues 1,461-Years in each cycle of the Egyptian Calendar (Hagen, 1996, para. 3 ??? Look for ref). Annual heliacal rising of the star Sirius meant the appearance just before dawn on the eastern horizon and the impending Nile river flood. Sirius disappears from view on the western horizon to emerge 70-days later in the summertime. The first new moon following Sirius heliacal rising began the first day of the Egyptian New Year (Weininger, 1996, para. 7). The overflowing Nile was the source of rebirth and fertility for Egyptian agriculture. Mythology dramatically reflects Sirius’ 70-day invisibility period below the horizon.
Resurrection occurring near the summer solstice during a 364 day-Ethiopic-year attaches connotations within a larger 1,461-Year Sothic Cycle. Disappearance of Sirius beneath the western horizon symbolizes death for the King. The 70-day mummification ritual was essentially part of the funeral ceremony that imitated the god returning. Osirus’ resurrection coincided with the star’s return every year at heliacal rising. Deceased Pharaohs were brought back to life through Osirus.
The same principles were in place for the heliacal risings of Venus every 8-solar-years in Mesoamerican religions. Quetzecoatl, the famous Aztec godhead, assumes his rightful place as the supreme deity. He was the Feathered Serpent that revived the dried bones of old dead by sprinkling his blood on them. Venus as Quetzecoatl
was the morning star god of vegetation and fertility. Life and
visible starlight opposed death, darkness and
invisibility below the horizon.
Applied lunar/solar math involves numerically matching 70 Days & Years. The 70 Day & Years single term combines with 70-Tzolken-sacred-years and associated conceptions about the underworld. The Antediluvian Calendar doubles the Primary Age, expressed as either 364 day-Ethipian-years or 260 day-Tzolken-sacred years. A 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle, consisting of 364-Tzolken-sacred years, has 294-Tzolken-sacred-years subtracted in equation 63. ??? The result is the matched 70-Tzolken-sacred-year era for Cainan's Primary Age.
Venus and Sirius have intervals of absent starlight from the gods. Venus has a lapse of about 50-days that was occasionally recorded by the Mayans with deviations lasting up to 90-days. Mayans divided the 8-day inferior conjunction into two separate 4-day periods. The second 4-day part had extraordinary meaning in that Kukulkan (Quetzecoatl) was bony, or some legends alternatively claim he brought the bones of the dead back to life when he resurrected as a bright morning star. The latter anecdote closely agrees with Egyptian beliefs regarding O'sirius reviving the Pharaohs following his 70-day visibility lapse before heliacal rising every year. The last 5-days after 360-days every year are an important clue to Sothic Cycle dating.
Dr. Simpson
(2005, para.2.) includes a translated portion of
the cuneiform script at his website that reads:
“In
the month Nisan, on the twenty-seventh day,
Ninsianna disappeared in the west; she
remained absent from the sky for seven days;
in the month Ayar, on the third day, Ninsianna
appeared in the east …”.
Ninsianna is the cosmic deity Venus. The month, Nisan was followed by the month Adar. An 8-day period of inferior conjunction, as opposed to the written 7-day is a distinct possibility when we consider Babylonian and Jewish sources traditionally changed the days at sunset within the sacred 7-day week.
Assyrian
records provide vital traces defining
Mesopotamian chronology back to about 1200 BCE.
There are several cuneiform tablets dating from
the 7th-8th century BCE. The copied text of the
cuneiform tablet below (figure 41) is from
earlier tablets that probably date from the 16th
century BCE. Babylonian chronology is a topic
prone to scholarly debate. A high, middle and
low chronology currently exists depending on
whom you read (Roaf, 1990, p 123). By the 8th
century BCE, Babylonian and Assyrian
priest-astronomers had charted the heliacal
risings of five planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars
and Jupiter were always important to astrology
and mythology.
The cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus
is currently part of the British Museum
collections.
Excavated by A.H.
Layard
Ancient Near East Department ANE K.160
References to
the Inanna/Eanna Temple, the residence of
Ishtar, support opinions favoring the Mayan
8-year Venus cycle and the 104-year
Venus Round calendar tools in Mesopotamia
at this early time. The Star of Ishtar was
prevalent in the worship of the Festival of
Ishtar. The festival took place to celebrate the
spring, vernal equinox near March 21 today.
Rebirth and fertility were predominant post
winter themes that gradually mutated into the
pagan Eoster celebration. Constantine
later combined Eoster origins with the Jewish
Passover during the early phases of
Christianity. Easter is modern adaptation of the
festival devoted to Christ’s resurrection.
Many other
tablets exist such as the ‘Epic of
Gilgamesh’ from ancient Sumer. The ‘Epic
of Gilgamesh’ is a story that compares
with the biblical Creation. The
legendary Gilgamesh, King of Uruk (2750 - 2500
BCE), and his friend are sent by the Babylonian
god Enlil to battle a dragon or serpent called
Humbaba (O’Connell, 1999, para. 14).
Worship of the
Creation story and planetary deities are
positive before the Deluge. The translation of
Tablet I by Kovacs (1998) indicates Anu, King of
the Sumerian-Babylonian pantheon and god of
heaven and earth, taught Gilgamesh the Creation
story before the Deluge.
“Anu granted him
the totality of knowledge of all.
He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden,
he brought information of (the time) before the
Flood.”
Multiple
Mayan & Egyptian 104-year Venus Rounds,
or Ethiopic Jewish 105-year Venus
Rounds,arrange the later
primary ages for the Antediluvian Calendar
system. Two 52-year Calendar Rounds make one 104-year
Venus Round that identifies with biblical
Seth’s 105-Ethiopic-year
Venus Round 3 primary age (S 105-Y VR 3).
Since 5-Venus Cycles of 584-days each
make 8-Haab-solar-years or 2,920-days,
there is a natural connection with the Egyptian
Calendar. O’Sirus, meaning ‘of Sirius
lore,’ has obvious roots manifest with
heliacal risings. Sirius sojourns in the
underworld 70-days between heliacal
setting and the next heliacal rising during the
course of one 365-day-Haab-solar-year.
Planet Venus shares the Mayan god name Kukulakan
and later, Quetzecoatl. Earthbound viewers
cannot see Quetzecoatl during two separate
invisible times. Venus is elapsed for 8-days
on the near side of the sun and for 50-days
on the far side of the sun during 8-Haab-solar-years.
Nearly identical mythology regarding the
afterlife and resurrection agree.
Summary: Venus Round flow for Seth Venus Rounds 3-4,
Cainan Venus Rounds
7-8 and Jared Venus Rounds 11-12.