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Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history, and even ancient sacred games

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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 the breaking of the inflexible Egyptian ritual rules related to sacred geography.

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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?

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Memling Hans

The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

by Iulia Millesima

Stradivari offered a glass of wine to a lumberjack one day, the price for a secret code in the Roman calendar. A night when the Moon is unusually not involved.

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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

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. It presents motionless earth with two stars and four elements. Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Moon, Sun. Till Empyrean. A complete explication of what Ptolemaic Astronomy did profess to be back at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Moreover, in Venice.

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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

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

At a superficial reading, Iamblichus wrote a “Life of Pythagoras”, putting nothing more than anecdotes. Among these, the legend of the golden thigh reveals much more than notions for ancient navigators and travelers. And Pythagoras’ secret thigh wounds make the detail even more significant for an alchemist.

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Philosophy Tagged With: Archeoastronomy, Polaris-North Star

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