The Ogdoad and the Calendar, Part 1

Can you picture in the Ancient world, probably in the Library of Alexandria, and well understood by various later groups. A people, who had studied eclipses, seen it 10,000 or 20,000 or 80,000 years ago. Then at some point understood, the Sun is a light source like fire. Even the Egyptians compared electric eels to Lightning, calling it the "Thunderer of the Nile", showing an understanding of Electricty. They also had Static Electricty. But a culture who understood the source of light was being blocked, and a shadow was being cast onto us. If you have ever been in an eclipse you know that any shadows cast will have little eclipses on them. Having an understanding of this, and then an understanding that the Moon is moving in cycles, waning and waxing, would give you enough insight to understand you existed on a sphere. Many ancient cultures knew this, the idea the Earth was flat came much later in History. By 250 BC the only disagreement was if the Sun moved around the Earth, or the Earth around the Sun.

"Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 - c. 230 BCE) was an ancient Greekmathematician and astronomer from Ionia who came up with a revolutionary astronomical hypothesis. He claimed the Sun, not the Earth, was the fixed centre of the universe, and that the Earth, along with the rest of the planets, revolved around the Sun. He also said that the stars were distant suns that remained unmoved and that the size of the universe was much larger than his contemporaries believed" -https://www.ancient.eu/Aristarchus_of_Samos/

The Goddess Tannit embodies the Eclipse, and is also Ma'at, the Scale and Gravity.

"At Pessinos in Phrygia, the mother goddess—identified by the Greeks as Cybele—took the form of an unshaped stone of black meteoric iron" -Summers, in Lane, 1996, p.364.

"CYBELE. The Thracians conceived the chief divinity of the Samothracian and Lemnian mysteries as Rhea-Hecate, while some of them who had settled in Asia Minor, became there acquainted with still stranger beings, and one especially who was worshipped with wild and enthusiastic solemnities, was found to resemble Rhea. In like manner the Greeks who afterwards settled in Asia identified the Asiatic goddess with Rhea, with whose worship they had long been familiar (Strab. x. p. 471; Hom. Hymn. 13, 31). In Phrygia, where Rhea became identified with Cybele, she is said to have purified Dionysus, and to have taught him the mysteries (Apollod. iii. 5. § 1), and thus a Dionysiac element became amalgamated with the worship of Rhea. Demeter, moreover, the daughter of Rhea, is sometimes mentioned with all the attributes belonging to Rhea. (Eurip. Helen. 1304.) The confusion then became so great that the worship of the Cretan Rhea was confounded with that of the Phrygian mother of the gods, and that the orgies of Dionysus became interwoven with those of Cybele. Strangers from Asia, who must be looked upon as jugglers, introduced a variety of novel rites, which were fondly received, especially by the populace (Strab. 1. c.; Athen. xii. p. 553 ; Demosth. de Coron. p. 313). Both the name and the connection of Rhea with Demeter suggest that she was in early times revered as goddess of the earth" -https://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Kybele.html

"Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain, and the love a mother bears for her child. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, the sister of Jupiter, and the mother of Proserpine. Ceres was a kind and benevolent goddess to the Romans and they had a common expression, "fit for Ceres," which meant splendid.

She was beloved for her service to mankind in giving them the gift of the harvest, the reward for cultivation of the soil. Also known as the Greek goddess Demeter, Ceres was the goddess of the harvest and was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain and corn. She was thought to be responsible for the fertility of the land.

Ceres was the only one of the gods who was involved on a day-to-day basis in the lives of the common folk. While others occasionally "dabbled" in human affairs when it suited their personal interests, or came to the aid of "special" mortals they favored, the goddess Ceres was truly the nurturer of mankind.

Ceres was worshipped at her temple on the Aventine Hill, one of the Seven Hills of ancient Rome. Her festival, the Cerealia, was celebrated on April 19. Another special time for Ceres was Ambarvalia, a Roman agricultural fertility rite held at the end of May. Ceres is portrayed holding a scepter or farming tool in one hand and a basket of flowers, fruits, or grain in the other. She may also be wearing a garland made from ears of corn." -https://www.ceresva.org/Goddess/Ceres.htm

Names used to invoke specific divine functions:

Vervactor, "He who ploughs"

Reparātor, "He who prepares the earth"

Imporcĭtor, "He who ploughs with a wide furrow"

Insitor, "He who plants seeds"

Obarātor, "He who traces the first ploughing"

Occātor, "He who harrows"

Serritor, "He who digs"

Subruncinator, "He who weeds"

Mĕssor, "He who reaps"

Convector, "He who carries the grain"

Conditor, "He who stores the grain"

Promitor, "He who distributes the grain"

"The Oxford English Dictionary and most scholars state that sincerity from sincere is derived from the Latin sincerus meaning clean, pure, sound (1525–35). Sincerus may have once meant "one growth" (not mixed), from sin- (one) and crescere (to grow). Crescere is cognate with "Ceres," the goddess of grain, as in "cereal."" -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sincerity

The Latin origin of the word Wax comes from Ceres, or Cybele. CERA, A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós)and Albanian qiri.

Pronunciation (Classical): /ˈkeː.ra/(Ecclesiastical): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛː.ra]

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb

2. a writing tablet covered with wax, wax tablet

3. a wax seal

4. a wax image

"Queen piping are acoustic signals emitted by young queens during the process of swarming. The piping emitted by emerged virgin queens is called “tooting.” The tooting signal starts with one or two pulses of about one second duration with an initial rise in both amplitude and frequency. These first long pulses are followed by a variable number of short pulses of about 0.25 second duration (Michelsen et al. 1986; Kirchner 1993). The fundamental frequency rises from around 400 Hz on the day of emergence to more than 500 Hz two to four days after emergence, whereas the number of pulses decreases from about 17 to about seven pulses per performance during the same period of time." -https://www.beeculture.com/a-closer-look-piping-tooting-quacking/

Originally posted on my website here:
http://www.punicwax.com/2020/08/the-ogdoad-and-calendar-easter-and.html