[HN Gopher] The Dendera Dating Controversy ___________________________________________________________________ The Dendera Dating Controversy Author : samizdis Score : 4 points Date : 2023-09-07 15:53 UTC (3 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.historytoday.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.historytoday.com) | gumby wrote: | Couldn't a zodiac be dated through the configuration of the | stars? | DoreenMichele wrote: | Probably not. It's not really a star chart and astrologers tend | to not update their zodiac as precession causes drift over | time. | | https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-zodiac... | pierat wrote: | Basically, some ancient Egyptian artwork caused a bunch of | Christians to collectively lose their shit when scientists | indicated the art could be older than 6000 years ago, the | "creation" of the world according to their archaic belief. | | That's the controversy: Christians forcing their creation myths | on everyone. | mistrial9 wrote: | > Christians .. 6000 years ago | | The Jewish New Year 5784, also known as Rosh Hashanah, will | begin at sunset on September 15, 2023, and end at nightfall on | September 17, 2023.3 It is the first of the High Holidays or | Yamim Noraim, celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur.03 Rosh | Hashanah means "head of the year" and falls on the biblical | Feast of Trumpets.2 It is described in the Torah as Yom Teruah, | a day of sounding the Shofar.3 In 2022, Rosh Hashanah began on | September 25, 2022, and ended on September 27, 2022.01 | cjbgkagh wrote: | It's going to be fun when Christians lean into grievance | culture and leverage hate speech laws to include blasphemy. | [deleted] | YeGoblynQueenne wrote: | >> France's Elgin Marbles? | | The Louvre has several Parthenon marbles. I don't know where they | got them from but I don't understand why nobody is asking that | they be returned like the ones looted by Elgin. They absolutely | should. | | Also, they have the Nike of Samothrace and the Aphrodite of | Milos, both of which are Greek archeological treasures that | should be returned to Greece. And many more besides from Egypt | and mesopotamia (the Lamassu from the palace of Sargon II!) that | don't belong in, nor, to France. | civilitty wrote: | That's clearly from an Ancient Cartouche from the Goa'uld era, | before Ra left the earth and the stargate was buried. The symbols | are clearly chevrons! That places it at least pre-2995 B.C. which | is predynastic, not even Old Kingdom yet. | DoreenMichele wrote: | Images of the piece in question, both actual and reconstructed | with original colors from when it had paint: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_zodiac ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-10 23:00 UTC)