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Archeoastronomy

Orientation in Ancient Egypt: Pepi I with Horus Falcon

By Iulia Millesima

Unusual orientation parameters in a statuette representing pharaoh Pepi I with a falcon may show a breaking of the inflexible Egyptian ritual rules related to a sacred geography. [Read more…] about Orientation in Ancient Egypt: Pepi I with Horus Falcon

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Sacred Geography Tagged With: Archeoastronomy, Egyptian Art, Equinoctial Axes, Orientation Axes, Solstitial Axes

Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17

By Iulia Millesima

Is the presence of St Anthony the Abbot enough to hint at the date of January 17 in the scene? And why Hans Memling turns the saint’s pet pig into a bristly boar? [Read more…] about Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Immortality-Palingenesis-Imaginary Universe, Memling Hans

The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

By Iulia Millesima

One day Stradivari offered a glass of wine to a lumberjack, the price for a secret coded in the Roman calendar. A night when the Moon is unusually not involved. [Read more…] about The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Ars Musicae, Sound, Stradivari Antonio

Trisulti Carthusian Monastery and the Yearbook Wheel

By Iulia Millesima

The eight spokes wheel on a Trisulti pillar means more than a yearbook.  An archeo-astronomical  chart for Equinoxes, Solstices, heliacal and acronic stars. [Read more…] about Trisulti Carthusian Monastery and the Yearbook Wheel

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Trisulti Carthusian Monastery

Two Stars in a Venetian Geocentric Sky

By Iulia Millesima

In this woodcut from Tetragonismus idest circuli quadratura we will see how the geocentric alchemical world was not just a world of light. But Densities. [Read more…] about Two Stars in a Venetian Geocentric Sky

Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Archeoastronomy, Geocentric Ptolemaic Model, Venetian Woodcuts

San Miniato Sun Path or the Sky as Seen from Earth

By Iulia Millesima

Every day is a peculiar day in Alchemy. To Make the difference is the Sun orbiting the Earth: we alchemists still consider the sun as seen from the earth. [Read more…] about San Miniato Sun Path or the Sky as Seen from Earth

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Geocentric Ptolemaic Model, San Miniato al Monte

The Pythagorean Thigh in the Northern Sky

By Iulia Millesima

Golden Thigh Pythagoras did not reveal more than notions for ancient navigators and travelers. While alchemists would be interested in his secret thigh wounds. [Read more…] about The Pythagorean Thigh in the Northern Sky

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Gnosis Tagged With: Archeoastronomy, Immortality-Palingenesis-Imaginary Universe, Polaris-North Star

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