Quelltext der Seite The birth of Venus out of Orion (III)

by [[Dr. Renate Schukies|Renate Schukies]]

[["Pseudowissenschaftler“ Velikovsky?|Velikovsky]] had quoted from an ancient [[Geheimnisvolles China|Chinese]] source that during the reign of [http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=21003&t=21003 Yahou] "''a brilliant star appeared out of the constellation Yin''". <ref>Editorial remark: probably 'Tseen Yin (天陰)' = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Arae Zeta Arae]</ref> Calculations were done to figure out the time of [http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=21003&t=21003 Yahou] on the bases of the [http://books.google.de/books?id=scMtAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=constellation+Niao&source=bl&ots=-TJi_nRJ7Q&sig=qHmscRUo08ENlzf7lUeiMOmr008&hl=de&sa=X&ei=icDHU7b5Aeay7Abko4G4Bg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=constellation%20Niao&f=false constellation Niao], which supposedly was culminating at the time of the autumn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_equinox equinox] at sunset during the time of [http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=21003&t=21003 Yahou]. '''Niao''' was assumed to be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28constellation%29 Hydra]. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|1950,1978:102]]) So I searched for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28constellation%29 Hydra] in the astronomical atlas. When I looked at that celestial area I noticed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion]. If the brilliant star appeared from anywhere around here, I thought, then it probably would be easy to remember the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellation Orion] as the place of emergence before any other constellation. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] is regarded as the most beautiful and impressive constellation in the whole night sky. It is cut in half by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_equator celestial equator], so it is the only constellation seen in the northern and southern hemisphere. Therefore it disappears in the summer from the northern skies and reappears in winter, its coming being heralded by the rising of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades Pleiades]. From there, on a diagonal lineup, we find the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyades_%28star_cluster%29 Hyades], with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran Aldebaran], the belt stars of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius] (see '''Fig. 1''').

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One day, when I compared the engravings from [http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/g.cgi?fid=1923290&state=NM&ftype=valley Largo Canyon] '''(Fig. 2)''' to this
astronomical chart the idea hit me: the three lines were representing the Milky Way and the hourglass symbol appeared to be the abstract form of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellation Orion]. As this hourglass symbol is interpreted in literature as ''Born of Water'', the cultural hero of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_people Navaho], who is compared to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl] / '''Venus''', the connection was made: The brilliant star '''Venus''' appeared out of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellation Orion]. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Collier 1949, 1962: 134; Patterson 1992: 17]]) When I asked the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne Cheyenne] Blue Sky Maker Bill Red Hat about my assumption, that the hourglass symbol is representing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion], he verified my idea. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] is indeed symbolized by the hourglass motive, which is one of the most important signs in Indian pictography. 

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My assumption was also verified by [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thassilo_von_Scheffer von Scheffer]: "''Also on [[Kretominoische Atlantis-Hypothesen|Crete]] a lot is recounted from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion], what always is a sign of very ancient conceptions, and should it be, that- they perceived in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] not a man off and on, but a hatchet or a double axt (hourglass), then we would certainly be in the middle of the cults of those mysterious natives of [[Kretominoische Atlantis-Hypothesen|Crete]]. Everywhere this island shows the oldest material of myth, as we already have heard about the youth of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus Zeus] on the Ida Mountains of [[Kretominoische Atlantis-Hypothesen|Crete]]''" ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|1939: 162,181, 216]]). On the Mediterranean islands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus Zeus] was called ''The Moisterizer'' or ''Gatherer of Clouds''. Water in connection to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus Zeus] reminds of ''Born of Water'', Motseyoef / '''Venus''', or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl] / '''Venus'''.

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'''(Fig. 3)''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] had been thought of in mythology as a giant man and powerful hunter, the most beautiful and strongest of men. This skyman was observed carrying a club, a fur, a sword, or a star. He suffers different injuries. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] loves beautiful women and wine. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur Minotaur legend] on [[Kretominoische Atlantis-Hypothesen|Crete]] connects [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_%28constellation%29 Taurus]-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] to the death kult of Egypt, where the main god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris] is linked to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] is able to walk on and through water, he controlls floods and raises mountains. This connects him to the god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor Thor] and the giant Wate in northern mythology and christian legends as well. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] is mentioned in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Book of Job]; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod Nimrod] of the Old Testament has been identified with him. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk Marduk]-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] fights [[Tiamat]] and looses his right hand. Lefthandedness is part of mythology all over the world. Also war god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr Týr's] right arm is eaten by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenrir Fenris wolf]. Many elements of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion]-mythologies are found all over the world, which came into being independently. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|von Scheffer 1939: 160-168, Ahlert 1954:10]]). It seems that all central qualities, activities, items or physical elements which are of importance for identification in iconography and mythology seemed to be already based in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion], who is the ancient figur in primeval mythology. '''Venus''' was made of the private parts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouranos Ouranos] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion]), Eve was made from the ribs of Adam.

<center>[[Bild:Schukies-Venus-4.jpg]]</center>

The giant '''Sahu''' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion]) is being pictured in Egypt as a walking man holding a star in his hand. Viewed from beneath he holds the star to his right side, in his right hand. But I could also define it as his left side, or left hand ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Bauval, Gilbert 1994: plate 13b, 16]]) '''(Fig. 4)'''. Now confusion seems to start with the identification of this star. In the pyramid text a star is mentioned, which it is called a: "''big star, companion of Orion, who travels the (Duat) with Osiris''"; or "''star, which enlightens the sky''"; "''the king, a star, bright and travelled far''"; "''The brother of the( king) is the moon, the (descendent) of the (king) is the Morning Star''". Seen with a [["Pseudowissenschaftler“ Velikovsky?|Velikovskyan]] perspective this star can only be '''Venus''' / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris]. Like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukulkan Kukulkan] or Motseyoef, the cultural hero [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris] gave cultur to the people, suffered a tragic death, and resurrection. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Seler: 1898: 25; Bauval 1994: 110-111]]) 

This becoming the basis of ancient [[Die Ägypter - Erben eines uralten Wissens|Egyptian]] myth and the origion of the resurrection cult around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris]. The dead pharaos mummy, was called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris], and his soul was going to become a star in the '''Sahu''' / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] region in the sky. But considering all the possibilities for incorrect interpretation and translation, I assume it has to be read correctly: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris] becomes the star in the '''Sahu''' / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] region. This would fit the pattern of cultural heroes transforming into the Morning Star '''Venus'''. There is no star in or around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] which has these outstanding qualities described, certainly not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]. The star in question is situated in the right hand of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion], above his head. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius] is situated at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orions] foot, on the left side. And certainly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius] is not a star that travelled far, but '''Venus''' did.

[[Bild:Quetzalcoatl magliabechiano.jpg|thumb|'''Fig. L''' Quetzalcoatl with a 'Maltese cross' on his feathered shield, apparently symbolizing the Morning Star]]

If one reads the mythological description of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius] with '''Venus''' in mind, it starts making sense: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]-'''Venus''' beauty surpasses and outshines each other star, it is the star. In Hellas and Rome admiration was mixed with fear, even horror, before this dangerous star. It stood in the sky glistening, sending out reddish lightning, apparently having bad influence on the climatic condition. In [[Die Ägypter - Erben eines uralten Wissens|Egypt]], the highest god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris] was connected to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]-'''Venus''', - which is not a big etymological step. The [[Die Ägypter - Erben eines uralten Wissens|Egyptians]] identified [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis Isis]-'''Venus''' with the dog star [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]-'''Venus''' as well, and declared Orion to be her husband. The appearence of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]-'''Venus''' was the highest celebration in [[Die Ägypter - Erben eines uralten Wissens|Egypt]], the people rejoiced, the priests sacrificed, and the new year started. The glowing fire of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Sirius]-'''Venus''' and its devastating influence on the climate was feared also in [[Die Ägypter - Erben eines uralten Wissens|Egypt]]. Of '''Aristaios''' is said, that he calmed down the fiery star '''Maira''' (Maria). In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad Iliad] is stated: He was seen first by the old [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priamos Priam's] eyes, as he raged through the plain like the glowing star. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|von Scheffer 1939: 178-188]])

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinius_the_Elder Pliny the elder] '''(Fig. M)''' writes about '''Venus''': "''Beneath the sun moves a very big star whose name is Venus-1, with changing course and competing in names with sun and moon. When she appears early and before sun rise, she is called Lucifer-2, because like a second sun she brings the day earlier; when she shines after sunset, she is called Vesper-3, because she extends the day and takes the place of the moon. ''[...]'' Just by size she surpasses all the other stars, and her brightness is so intense, that because of her beams of light, shaddows result like from no other star''" (Buch II, Abschn. VI §§ 36-37 cited in [[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Marold, VFG 1994: 89]]) This triade of '''Venus''', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer Lucifer] and '''Vesper''' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperus Hesperos]) seems to be at the base of all triadic/trinity conceptions and perhaps this is the key to bring some more order into the rather confusing attachment of names to heavenly bodies.

[[Bild:Pliny the Elder.jpg|thumb|'''Fig. M''' Pliny the Elder (23-79)]] 

'''Aristaios''' in German translation reads ''der Sternenhelle'', which in English might mean something like ''bright like the stars'' or ''light of the stars''. He is married to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eos Eos], the goddes of the morning red, who gave birth to the winds, the stars and the Morning Star. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eos Eos] drives her charriage-and-pair in front of her brother [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios Helios], the sun. Their sister is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene Selene], the goddes of the moon. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Fasching 1994: 244-267]]) In scholarly opinion the triade of the great gods in Babylonian astronomy is formed by '''Venus''', '''Moon''' and '''Sun'''. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|B.L.van der Warden 1980:33]]) But, "''this is only partly true. Sun and Moon were observed almost as intensely as Venus, but only she was honored as a great goddess, and feared, as she was also a war goddess''" ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Marold 1994: 95]]). 

From the Near East to [[Geheimnisvolles China|China]], the ancients describe '''Venus''' as a second sun, a tremendous star: a light torch; Diamond, who glistens like the sun, its light intensity comparable to the rising sun; The radiant light of Venus flames from one end of the cosmos to the other; A circling star, who throws out his fire in flames. "''Still in the 7th century Assurbanipal writes about Venus ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar]), who is dressed in flames and wears a crown of enormous radiance''" ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Velikovslcy 1950/1978:152]]). This reminds of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva Shiva] / '''Venus''', dancing in a circle of flames, from which again flames, energy, fire and rays radiant endlessly. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Bauer 1980: 67]]) Venus as a second sun is a very good explanation for the many "''double sun''" or "''eye''" motives found throughout the world.

At a time when men most likely had no clear concept about the differentiation of stars and planets in the scientific astronomical sense of today, those lights in the heavens were all stars to them, which is actually still true for quite many people of today. As the human mind back then didn't function any different to the mind of today, certainly one would consider the biggest star in size, the main king and/or queen of heaven. This makes '''Venus''' the star in the sky. '''Venus''', the ''Two Faced'' (phased), the Morning Star and the Evening Star, the '''Venus''' trinity. Compared to a star like '''Venus''', the sun and the moon are shrinking to a position of minor importance, especially the other visible planets, who in this analyses don't have to look or behave much different compared to today. By eye sight planet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn Saturn] cannot be separated from the other stars, that means he is nonexistent as a planet. That's why the astronomers had no real conception of the planet before the invention of telescopes. The first telescope observations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn Saturn], with a 32-time enlargement, were made by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei Galilei] in 1609/10, who still thought of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn Saturn] as a "''triple planet''". With the eyes, or binoculars [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn Saturn's rings] cannot be seen at all. In 1781 the musician [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Herschel Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel] discovered through his telescope a new planet behind [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn Saturn]. After some to and fro it was given the name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus Uranus] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouranos Ouranos]). ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Moore 1980: 104,110]])

<center>[[Bild:Schukies-Venus-5.jpg]]</center>

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28mythology%29 Orion] achieves even greater importance, if one considers the research of [[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Bauval and Gilbert (1994)]], who presented the evidence, that the [[Die ägyptischen Pyramiden|Egyptian pyramids]] are situated in their overall plan according to the stars in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellation Orion], the three pyramids of Gizeh resembling the diagonal alignment of the belt stars in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] '''(Fig. 5)'''. 

<center>[[Bild:Schukies-Venus-6.jpg]]</center>

On the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot Blackfood] ceremonial lodge of the Blood [http://blackfootdigitallibrary.org/en/taxonomy/term/126 Horn Society] '''(Fig. 6)''' the three big balls probably resemble the same [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%27s_Belt Orion belt] stars, especially considering the Morning Star symbol right next to them, which I tried to make more visible. On nearly all painted ceremonial [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot Blackfoot] tipis the top is painted with a broad encircling band of black, representing the night sky, on which are portrayed the sun and crescent moon, the constellations of the ''Seven Brothers'' and ''Lost Children'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major Great Bear] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades Pleiades]), and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_cross Maltese cross], the emblem of the Morning Star. This cross is also said to represent the Butterfly. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Mac Lintoc 1992: 218, 219]]) The German [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross Iron Cross] as sign for the Morning Star is widely spread throughout the Plains tribes. There is enough pictorial evidence that '''Venus''' was portrayed with one horn, too, especially [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl]. ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Patterson 1992:6]]) The Blood Horn Tipi of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot Blackfoot] might therefore just be another North American Indian ceremony which can be connected to '''Venus'''. Further research will show that many more of the North American Indian mythologies follow the known Morning Star pattern, the cultural hero turning into the Morning Star '''Venus'''. Also the cultural hero of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_people Wichita] transformed into the Morning Star ([[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Velikovsky 1950, 1978: 170-171]]). The changing positions of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 Orion] indicated the different phases of winter to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath_people Klamath Indians] from [[Riesenfunde - in Kalifornien|California]] (Thomas in [[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature|Thaler 1994:88]]).



=== Continuation ===

* [[The birth of Venus out of Orion (IV)]] 

* [[The birth of Venus out of Orion - Literature]]

* '''Back to:''' [[The birth of Venus out of Orion (I)]]


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