A total solar eclipse from 2471 B.C. may have shaken Egypt’s cult of the sun
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2024 Total solar eclipse above Indiana. | Credit: Josh dinner
The date is April 1, 2471 BC, and the total solar eclipse forced the night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun turned into a black circle without a life surrounded by a trail of adoption, which is the result of the moon’s moon completely between the Earth and its radiant star. Darkness has swept through the Nile Delta. The usual holy city of Bhutto was starred in the shade.
Pharaoh Shipsikaf, the ruling ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty. Could this be a fateful message from the sky?
This is the image that a new study of Archaistromoner Giulio Magli drew, which is according to this old The solar eclipseThe course of the total coincides with a major shift in the Egyptian traditions that occurred side by side far From solar worship. “This king is accurately corresponding to the eclipse,” said Mageli, a professor of archaeological in the mathematics department at Politecnico Di Milano, for Space.com. “I say specifically because I adopt here one of the potential time sequences of the ancient kingdom. There are others, because it is not easy to fix the dates of the beginning of years – but also in the other timeline, it is compatible.”
Later missing and a missing pyramid
It is long known that the ancient Egyptians have been the sun. For example, God who took the shape of the falcon, HorusUsually it is depicted with the right eye represents the sun as a source of strength. (The left eye, God represented the moon, as a source of recovery). Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian family, the well -known sun god became the primary code From Egyptian solar energy. Even the fourth family rulers usually adopted later to their names that praised RA.
“Khufu was a kind of solar king,” Mageli explained from the second ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty. And some Pharaohs after KHUFU from Kafre, Djedefra and Menkaure – the latter is likely to be the shepsekaf’s father. But something clearly changed when it comes to shepsekaf.
His name does not adopt, first, the subsequent person related to the sun of the sun – and this is not everything.
Pharaoh Shipsikaf, as Mageli explained, was buried in a grave that was not surprisingly facing the Marubolis, a major city and religious center linked to RA. The Shepsekaf tomb is also not baptized as a pyramid as it was with the other Pharaohs.
The three famous pyramids of Giza were for context, All built During the fourth family of Egypt. The first trilogy was built as a royal cemetery of Fakhu. The following was built for Khafre, the fourth ruler, and the third was built for Menkaure, the fifth ruler. “They are solar kings, and they are in a clear show from HelioPolis, which was the main place for solar worship,” Magley explained.
The three large pyramids of Menkaure (L), Khafre (C) and Khufu are looming on the horizon of November 13, 2004 in Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt. | Credit
SEPSEKAF, on the other hand, was buried in Magli’s memorial saying that is like structures in Bhutto, a sacred location in the Nile Delta. Most importantly, if you remember, this is the site that sat directly in the middle of the solar eclipse path 2471 BC.
“No one was able to explain this, and my idea is that it resembles a building that was in the most holy place inside the overall part.”
Shepsekaf tomb in Egypt. | Credit: Julio Mageli
It should also be noted that these huge transformations are far from solar energy that coincides with the shepsekaf era was already known. However, Mageli says it was not possible to determine a specific reason before, mostly because sports accounts related to old paths of the total need to improve before a connection.
“In recent years, colleagues who are working specifically have achieved a great progress dates and paths.” “It is easy to know the days and times of ancient eclipse. This is just the three bodies mechanics – this is easy. What you do not know is where the moon’s amber is shown, because this depends on the rotation of the earth if it is not fixed – and in fact it is not fixed.”
Although we are not observed by us on a regular basis, our planet suffers from microscopic fluctuations in its cycle; For exampleThe amendments can affect the distribution of the mass via our planet landAxis, and indeed how quickly it is rotated.
Simulating what can be seen in its entirety during 2471 BC the solar eclipse. | Credit
Moreover, on the topic of ancient solar eclipse, experts previously found some references to these events in Egyptian literature. For example, as the Magli study, in the eighteenth family, Phenaoh Tutankhamen, a record of limestone known as “Stela of Huy” says: “I see darkness during the daylight (that) that made it shine for me.
In the end, solar energy worship gets a return.
The return of solar energy
It seems a little different from the fourth family, but it seems that solar worship resumes with the Fifth Egyptian Dynasty – whose pharaohs built their graves in cooperation with the pyramids as well, though, though this Nothing was completely Hanging like Giza pyramids.
Mageli says this solar worship is linked to the construction of a new building, which is called the “Sun Temple”. Each Pharaoh from the Fifth Dynasty built one of these structures in addition to a pyramid, he says.
It has been descended whether both of them “build” physically a new temple of the sun or renewed a former temple, but the Pharaohs made the signs of the sun temple.
With the improvement of accounts about the paths of the total on hand, Magli also managed to decipher something great last The total solar eclipse that affected ancient Egyptian civilizations. This other eclipse appears to happen 1000 years later. And the general response to it It has been seen Very surprising.
O hell nuances
On May 14, 1338 BC, again, the night fell during the day in Egypt.
This time, the ruling ruler was two brothers of the eighteenth Egyptian family – but the interesting thing is that two brothers do not seem to be afraid of the dark, dark sun on his land.
“This king was a new solar energy institution,” Mageli explained. “This eclipse happened exactly as he founded this new capital in the central region, and it is a lost place anywhere – I was lost in the desert.”
Why would that be?
On the one hand, Mageli says that it is possible that he will be a brotherly manner with the total solar eclipse that occurred during the Chipsikaf period due to the extent of “cultural continuity” in Egypt. Perhaps it was said to the eighteenth Pharaoh, which was informed in one way or another that it is not necessary to give up the worship of solar energy in the light of the total solar eclipse. However, we cannot know the certainty, mostly due to the lack of sacred books related to the solar eclipse of the ancient Egyptian archives.
“It is always difficult to prove whether the eclipse was seen in the old past as bad submarines or good factors,” Mageli said.
He said: “Coals were usually considered as bad submarines, but we have a more clear example in Italy on the comet, which is considered a good omen.” “August founded the imperial power of Rome On the passing of the comet During the days of the death of Caesar. “
Another view of the solar eclipse 2024. Credit: Josh dinner
However, what we know is that the ancient Egyptians were completely harmonious with both astronomy – in the wake of the periodic stages of the moon and attention to the stellar patterns – as well as the depths in general – the worst is believed to be the Nile does not reach the expected highlands after normal periods of heavy rains.
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These aspects are known because of the evidence, and for this reason Magli hopes that we will soon get stuck on some direct sources related to what SEPSEKAF really thought about the solar eclipse that surrounds its kingdom. “The architectural settings must be studied for a much more shepsekaf period,” he said. “He may find texts … it will be very important to dig them.”
“I have been looking for the pyramids for many years. For me, it is necessary to touch them. You cannot talk about the memorial without touching it,” he added. “We have the tools needed to analyze the effects of air, from satellite images, etc. – and I use them – but I think this cannot be a substitute for touching stones.”