July 4th Declaration of Independence day
Did you know that the July 4th Declaration of Independence of the United States of America comes from the mystery tradition of Ancient Egypt. Same as the first Independence Day of the Philippines before it was changed and made June 12.
The July 4th Declaration of Independence Day of the United States of America was established by Freemasons notably George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other astrologers-masons who planned and designed the national capital region area. From the ancient concept of “as above so below”, they built the structures aligned to heavenly bodies and star maps particularly the heliacal rising of star Sirius at a certain time of the year. Sirius known as sothis among the Egyptian, Al Shaira as indicated in the Koran, Surya in Sanskrit; T’an Lang or heavenly wolf of the Chinese Purple Star group, is the brightest star in the sky twenty times brighter than our present sun and is located in the constellation Canis Major.
Canis Major is the larger of two dogs which follow Orion, the Hunter, at exact alignment on the belt of its 3 stars; faces the 5 stars of Taurus, Hyades, the Bull; and the 7 stars of the Pleiades. Sirius is more visible on the easterly sky of the winter solstice rising after sunset. By the ancient Egyptians, Sirius was revered as the Nile Star, or Star of Isis. Its annual appearance just before dawn at the June 21 solstice, heralded the coming rise of the Nile, upon which Egyptian agriculture depended. This particular heliacal rising is referred to in many temple inscriptions, wherein the star is known as the Divine Sepat, identified as the soul of Isis. It has religious and also practical significance as a calendar for ancient Egyptians.
Egyptian calendar, dating system established several thousand years before the common era, the first calendar known to use a year of 365 days, approximately equal to the solar year. In addition to this civil calendar, the ancient Egyptians simultaneously maintained a second calendar based upon the phases of the moon.
The Egyptian lunar calendar, the older of the two systems, consisted of twelve months whose duration differed according to the length of a full lunar cycle (normally 29 or 30 days). Each lunar month began with the new moon—reckoned from the first morning after the waning crescent had become invisible—and was named after the major festival celebrated within it. Since the lunar calendar was 10 or 11 days shorter than the solar year, a 13th month (called Thoth) was intercalated every several years to keep the lunar calendar in rough correspondence with the agricultural seasons and their feasts. New Year’s Day was signaled by the annual heliacal rising of the star Sothis (Sirius) , a star called Sopdet by the Egyptians, when it could be observed on the eastern horizon just before dawn in midsummer This rising occurred within a month or so of the beginning of Nile Flood.
The exact origin of the ancient Egyptian calendar is unknown, but it is estimated to have started around 5,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians used a lunar calendar exclusively until they adopted their solar calendar.
The lunar calendar was then used for their religious festivals and rituals, but for their daily lives, the ancient Egyptians used a solar calendar which contained 365 days per year. Each year was comprised of three, four-month seasons, which were named after significant events related to their agrarian lifestyle.
The Egyptian calendar was broken down as follows:
One week was ten days.
Three weeks was one month.
Four months was one season.
Three seasons and five holy days was one year.
Relief depiction of a calendar
Depiction of an Egyptian hieroglyphic calendar
The first season – was called Akhet, which means flood or inundation. It included the months of Tekh, Menhet, Hwt-Hrw, and Ka-Hr-Ka.
The second season – was called Proyet, which means emergence. Its months were Sf-Bdt, Redh Wer, Redh Neds, and Renwet.
The third season – was called Shomu, which means low water. The names of its months were Hnsw, Hnt-Htj, Ipt-Hmt, and Wep-Renpet.
Each month consisted of three ten-day periods called decades or decans. Although the months were individually named, they were commonly referred to by the name of the festivals they represented. The last two days of each decade were considered holidays and the Egyptians didn’t work.
A month was 30 days long on the Egyptian solar calendar. Since this didn’t account for all the days in the year, the Egyptians added an intercalary month that occurred outside of the regular calendar year.
The intercalary month was five days long, which meant that the Egyptian solar calendar lost about one-fourth of a day every year relative to the actual solar year. The five intercalary days were used to celebrate the gods’ birthdays and the Egyptians weren’t expected to work during this time.
Decans are groups of stars in ancient Egyptian astronomy that were used to tell time at night. The rising of each group indicated a new sidereal day. There were 36 groups, or decans, of stars. Each decan consisted of ten days, which yielded a 360-day year.
Names of the decans are known but their locations and their relationship to modern constellations are unknown. A sidereal day is defined as the time taken for one rotation of the earth relative to the stars. It’s approximately four minutes shorter than a solar day.
The Canopus Decree, issued by Ptolemy III, provided for a sixth epagomenal day every fourth year in order to correct this discrepancy. However, the priests and the population in general resisted this change and it was eventually abandoned until Augustus established the Coptic calendar in 25 BC.
Dates for common people were written with the number of the month in the season first. Next would be the name of the season, then the number of the day relative to the month, and then the year and the ruler. The ascension of a new ruler restarted the year count.
Occasionally, the year count began with the first full year of the new ruler but would include the time before that with a note to differentiate between the two time periods.
It was important to maintain accuracy between the solar calendar year and the actual solar year so that the heliacal rising of Sirius would occur properly. The heliacal rising would occur when Sirius was briefly visible on the horizon immediately before sunrise.
Sirius was vitally important to the Egyptians because it was the basis of their religion.
The Egyptian civil calendar was altered by Julius Caesar about 46 BCE with the addition of a leap-year day occurring once every four years; the revised system forms the basis of the Western calendar still used in modern times.
Egyptian Moon God Jah, Yah, Iah, Aah.
Aah-Yah was an ancient Egyptian moon god and time. He was also revered as a god of fertility. Aah was in charge of the ancient lunar year (12 to 13 months of 28 days each). The ancient Egyptians used the sun, moon, the planets, and the stars as a reference for measuring the passage of time and charted the heavenly skies to make some sort of sense out of their environment. The first ancient Egyptian calendar dates back to 4236 B.C.E. The changing phases of the moon were extremely important to the ancient Egyptians. The earliest Egyptian calendar was based on the cycles of the moon but it did not enable the Egyptians to predict the annual flooding of the Nile. Aah was also revered as a fertility god. The lunar calendar in Egypt was used by priests as a guide to improving the yield of agriculture crops on which much of ancient Egypt’s wealth was based.
Aah-Yah the god of Fertility
The flooding of the Nile was of such importance that the Egyptians based their lives around it. Months were grouped into three, four-month, seasons.
Akhet was the time of the Nile flood (June – September)
Peret was the sowing time (October – January)
Shemu was the time of harvest (February – May)
The Egyptian months were organized as twelve 30-day months, so there were 5 extra days.
The Myth of Aah-Yah and the extra 5 days
In an ancient Egyptian myth the goddess Nut had been cursed by Ra so that should could never give birth on any day of the year. Thoth played a dice game with Aah and won enough lunar light to make five extra days. Thoth inserted them into the month of July. These extra 5 days were not included in the curse of Ra so this allowed Nut to give birth to her five children, Osiris, Horus, Isis, Nephthys, and Set.
Aah – Yah The Solar Calendar
The lunar calendar developed into the 365 day solar calendar when the ancient Egyptians began to notice the “Dog Star” Sirius rising next to the Sun every 365 days, marking the time when the Nile river also began its annual flood tide. Aah is credited for having created the original Egyptian calendar as Aah Tehuti which then developed from a moon to a sun calendar, which perhaps explains his headdress that consists of both the crescent moon and the sun disk
Moon and Freemasonry
Every year on July 4 after sunrise from the earth’s position, the present sun is in conjunction with Sirius at 13 degree Cancer ( Tropical). Esoterically this star is the Mason’s Blazing Star when conjoining with the sun and align with the stars in Hyades and Pleiades on a certain period of the ages caused by the precession of the equinox.
Ironically, Cancer is ruled by the moon and depicted by the glyph on the Royal Arch keystone between Gemini and Leo symbol.
From the Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, and the Romans, Freemasons learned from them the writings the philosophies and rituals which became the main principles of Masonic teachings.
Soul descends from Heaven by way of Jacobs Ladder allegory through the tropical point cardinal water Cancer, the Gate of Men. The canopy of heaven with the hottest time of the year in the Fire Leo Sun combines the two other luminaries, the Moon ruled by Cancer with cluster stars of the Pleiades in Taurus and the Blazing Star Sirius
Roman Writer Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius (390-430 CE) is famous for his classical Seven Books on Saturnalia. According to Macrobius, the galaxy crosses the Zodiac in two opposite points, Cancer and Capricorn, the tropical points in the sun’s course, ordinarily called the Gates of the Sun. Through these gates, souls descend to earth and re-ascend to Heaven. In Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, a discourse on the nature of the cosmos, the Gate of Men; and the other, the Gate of the Gods. Cancer was the former because souls descended by it to the earth, and Capricorn the latter, because by it they re-ascended to their seats of immortality and became Gods.
According to Macrobius, the soul descended through the spheres of the seven planets as it descends from the highest heavens to manifest as a physical matter on earth. When the soul encounters Saturn’s heaven, the seventh sphere, it gains the power of reasoning and theorizing.
In the next sphere, the sixth level closer to earth, the soul alights on Jupiter where it showed the Saturn’s gift of reason and critical analysis that can be put into practice so that the soul can direct the earthly body towards success or spiritual enlightenment.
In the 5th heaven Mars, the soul obtains the passion, courage and zealous qualities to the soul.
Below Mars, the soul encounters the Sun in the 4th level, where it meets glorious light in the purest form and envisages the potential for its own illumination or enlightenment. It absorbs the Sun’s spirit and brings with it the soul potential during the lifetime.
In the third heaven Venus, the soul inherits the motion of desires, beauty, and balance.
At the second level from earth, Mercury bestows the power of language and communication in order for it to be capable of interpreting human feelings and giving expression to its emotions.
When the soul enters the Moon’ realm the sphere nearest to Earth, the soul absorbs the Moon’s essence which includes the awareness that it will soon experience the changes of physical movement, growth, and eventual decay.
The Model of the Universe and the path of the soul journey according ancient Philosophers
Royal Arch keystone in Cancer between Leo and Gemini
1st Degree Masonic Tracing Board
The Importance of the Moon in Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or way of life. It is the world’s third-largest religion. Central to his philosophy is the idea that the divine exists in all beings, that all human beings can achieve moksha, the liberation from sorrow, suffering and samsara (birth-rebirth cycle). The Rigveda is the first among four Vedas and is one of the oldest religious texts.
The Hindu calendar or Panchang (Sanskrit : पञ्चाङ्ग) or Panjika refers to a set of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and South-east Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a similar underlying concept for timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, however also differ in their relative emphasis to moon cycle or the sun cycle and the names of months and when they consider the New Year to start.
The ancient Hindu calendar conceptual design is also found in the Hebrew calendar, the Chinese calendar, and the Babylonian calendar, but different from the Gregorian calendar.[4] Unlike the Gregorian calendar which adds additional days to the lunar month to adjust for the mismatch between twelve lunar cycles (354 lunar days)[5] and nearly 365 solar days, the Hindu calendar maintains the integrity of the lunar month, but inserts an extra full month by complex rules, once every 32–33 months, to ensure that the festivals and crop-related rituals fall in the appropriate season.[4][2]
The Hindu calendars have been in use in the Indian subcontinent since Vedic times, and remain in use by the Hindus all over the world, particularly to set Hindu festival dates
The nakshatras are small constellations of stars that the moon travels through as it orbits Earth. In English, nakshatras are known as “lunar mansions.”
Every nakshatra has its own set of fixed attributes. This includes planetary ruler, nakshatra group, zodiac sign, deity, symbol, and power.
Sanskrit Name: आर्द्रा (Ardra). One meaning of Ardra is the “moist one,” or “wet” indicating softness, youthfulness, and an adaptive nature.
The Rigvedic God of storms Rudra presided over the star.
The Rig Veda refers to the Orion Constellation as Mriga (The Deer).[16] It is said that two bright stars in the front and two bright stars in the rear are The hunting dogs, the one comparatively less bright star in the middle and ahead of two front dogs is The hunter and three aligned bright stars are in the middle of all four hunting dogs is The Deer (The Mriga) and three little aligned but less brighter stars is The Baby Deer. The Mriga means Deer, locally known as Harnu in folk parlance. There are many folk songs narrating the Harnu. The Malay called Orion’s Belt Bintang Tiga Beradik (the “Three Brother Star”).[citation needed] Nataraja,’the cosmic dancer’, is often interpreted as the representation of Orion. Rudra, the Rigvedic form of Shiva, is the presiding deity of Ardra nakshatra (Betelgeuse) of Hindu astrology
Sirius was worshipped by the Egyptians as a divinity, Osiris, and by Persians as Tishtrya or Tir (Bow and Arrow), and in Sanskrit as Rudra (in the Rigveda).
According to Vedic astrology this Star Sirius comes under constellation (Nakshatra) called “Ardra” inside the zodiac sign Gemini. Its deity is Lord Rudra.
The significance of Orion according to Egyptian mystics lies in the fact that “all the souls incarnating on planet Earth come through this galactic gateway between Taurus and Gemini “ Adra Nakshatra.”
Rohini Nakshatra
In Hindu mythology Aldebaran is known by the name Rohini and is the fourth of the 27 daughters of Daksha given to God Chandra(moon) as wives. The Moon God enamoured by the beauty of Rohini started spending all his time with her neglecting the others.
Constellations Orion, the Hunter, visible in the night sky all through the winter months, is one of the easiest to identify. Its seven main stars, two of which are of the first magnitude, make up the distinctive figure of a man (the Hunter) wielding a club in his right hand and a shield in his left hand. He has a sword hanging from his belt.
In the night sky, Betelgeuse is easy to spot with the naked eye owing to its distinctive orange-red color. In the Northern Hemisphere, beginning in January of each year, it can be seen rising in the east just after sunset. By mid-September to mid-March (best in mid-December), it is visible to virtually every inhabited region of the globe
Swati Nakshatra
ARCTURUS in Indian Vedic Astrology it is called SWATI Nakshatra meaning very beneficent. It is the brightest star of the Bootis constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. Ptolemy described Arcturus as slightly red. It is 36.7 light years from earth. It is at least 110 times more luminous than the Sun. In ancient Greek it means “Guardian of the bear”.
Purnavasu Nakshatra
Pollux and Castor in Hindu astronomy both together correspond to the Nakshatra “PUNARVASU”. Pollux is calculated to have a mass at least 2.3 times of Jupiter. It is orbiting with a period of 590 days. It is larger than the Sun with about two times its mass and about nine times its radius.
Jyeshtha Nakshatra
Sanskrit means “The eldest” / “The biggest”.
Jyeshtha Nakshatra also called Antares is one of the largest star in the universe. It is the seventeenth brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is the brightest, most massive, and most evolved stellar member in the constellation Scorpius
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iah
http://robertmascharan.blogspot.com/2013/06/yhwh-and-star-sirius-secret-hidden-
About the Writer:
Gabriel Comia, Jr. is a student of ancient mystery school.