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Tables of Contents for Sun, Moon & Sothis
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Preface: On How This Book Came to Be
xviii
 
PART ONE: CALENDARS, CYCLES, AND PERIODS
Sun, Moon, and Sothis
The Year
3
1
The Month
3
1
Time, the Number of Motion
4
1
Venus and Sirius
4
1
The Julian Calendar
5
1
The Gregorian Calendar
5
1
The Russian Calendar
6
1
A.D., B.C., and B.C.E.
7
1
Astronomical vs. Historical Datings
8
1
Anno Domini?
9
1
When the Julian and Gregorian Calendars were in Phase
10
1
The Egyptian Calendar
10
2
The Dawn of Invisibility
12
1
The Egyptian Advantages
12
1
The Egyptian-Julian Quadrennia
13
1
Solar Calendars and Schematic Months
13
1
Luni-Solar Calendars
14
1
The 19-Year Cycle
14
1
The 25-Year Cycle Table
15
1
Sothis
15
1
The Length of the Sothic Period
16
1
The Alexandrian Calendar
16
1
Solar, or Sothic?
17
1
Retrojections and Retrocalculations
18
2
The Heliacal Risings of Sirius
20
1
Equating Dates from Different Calendars
21
2
The New Day
23
1
The 25-Year Cycle
Papyrus Demotic Carlsberg 9
24
1
Sources
25
1
Claudius Ptolemy and the 25-Year Cycle
25
1
The Table that is not There
26
1
What There is in Papyrus Carlsberg 9
27
1
The Highly Idealized Character of the Table
28
3
With a Running Count
31
1
A Confluence of Uniformities
32
1
Reaching the 9125 Days
32
1
The Implied Lengths
33
1
The 1'S and the 30'S
34
1
The Placement of Intercalary Material
34
1
The ``Great'' Years
35
1
Intercalation not Involved
35
1
The Effect of the Equinoxes
36
2
Computations of the Lunar Months
38
1
Starting-Points
39
1
Thoth l?
40
1
Leaving the Columns Blank
41
1
A Timing Problem
42
1
The Original Cycle Table
42
1
The Autumnal Equinox Again
43
2
Possible Thoth 1's
45
1
The Half-Day Shift
46
1
Still Working After All These Years
47
1
Parker's 48 Lunations
48
1
A Sample for Testing
49
1
A Convenient Short-Cut
49
2
The Results
51
1
Parker and Samuel: An Examination of their Evidence
The 25-Year Blocks
52
1
Filling in the ``Missing'' Columns
52
1
1 and 30
53
1
The Advantages of Saying Less
54
1
Parker's Evidence
54
2
The Two Claims
56
1
The Dates that Fit the Cycle
57
1
The ``Missing'' Phamenoth and Epeiphi Columns
58
3
Cairo Demotic Papyrus 30801
61
1
Samuel on Parker
62
1
Increasing All of the Dates by One
63
1
Samuel's Evidence
64
3
A Graphical Explanation
67
2
Papyrus Demotic Philadelphia 510B
69
1
The Pithom Stele
70
1
Opting for the Moon
71
1
The Rylands Cycle
Papyrus Rylands 666
72
1
Repeating Cycles and ``New Moons''
73
2
A Discrepancy
75
1
First Invisibilities
75
2
The Format of the Papyrus Rylands 666 Cycle Table
77
1
Parker and the Earlier Cycle
77
1
Papyrus Rylands 27
78
1
``Two Solitudes''?
78
2
Theon and the Fifth Year of Augustus
The Ascension of Augustus in Egypt
80
1
-44
81
1
The Roman Era of Augustus
82
1
The Fifth Year of Augustus in Egypt
83
1
The Ahistoricity of the -25 Starting-Point
84
1
The Actual Starting-Point of the Alexandrian Calendar
84
1
Theon of Alexandria
85
1
Martin and Velikovsky
86
3
Sirius and the Sothic Period
The Retrocalculated Heliacal Risings of Sirius
89
1
-1321 as the Start of a Sothic Period
89
1
The ``Tetrad''
90
1
The Osculating Sothic Periods
90
1
The Egyptian-Sothic Quadrennia
90
1
The Egyptian-Sothic Triennia
91
1
The Three Triennia
92
2
-756 and -520
94
1
The Effect on the Tetrads
94
2
The Exact Dates of the Triennia
96
2
Censorinus and the Year of God
The Birthday of Cerellius
98
1
When Did Censorinus Write?
99
1
The Eras
99
1
Calends XII?
100
1
-1313?
101
1
The Coins of Antoninus Pius
102
1
Parker's ``Anchor in Time''
102
2
The Theon Annotator and the Era of Menophreus
``A Formula for the Rising of the Dog Star''
104
1
Martin
105
1
By Round-About Ways
105
1
The Memphis Rising
106
1
The End of the Era of Augustus in Egypt
106
1
The Era of Menophreus
107
1
The Julian Reform?
107
1
What is the Theon Annotator Doing?
108
2
The Errors of the Theon Annotator
110
1
The Sixth Error and Related Natters
111
3
The Identity of Menophreus
114
1
The Venus Year
The Retrocalculations of Venus
115
2
The Velikovsky Divide
117
2
The Star of Isis
119
1
The Venus Year
120
1
Events on or About Thoth 1
120
1
The Backsliding of Venus Through the Egyptian Calendar
120
1
Western Disappearances at the Beginning of Thoth
121
1
Western Elongations at the Beginning of Thoth
121
1
The Morning Star and the Nile Flood
122
1
The Approaching Crisis in the Third Century
123
1
The Timing of the Canopus Decree
124
1
1461 ÷ 4 = 3651/4 Days
124
1
The Anticlimax
125
4
PART TWO: THE CANOPUS DECREE
The Texts of the Canopus Decree
Why Did the Canopus Decree Fail?
129
1
Of Stones and Decrees
130
1
But for the Rosetta Stone
130
1
The Purposes of the Memphis Decree
131
1
The Discovery of the Tanis Stone
132
1
Translation of Parts of the Canopus Decree
132
3
Which Text was the Original?
135
1
The Purposes of the Canopus Decree
136
1
Solar and Sothic
137
1
Parker's Formulation of the Issues
137
1
The Silence from Both Sides
138
1
Equatings, Rules, and Crescents
The Use of the 25-Year Cycle Table
139
1
The Accuracy of Macedonian Dates
140
1
The Ascension of Ptolemy III Euergetes
141
1
The Regnal Years
142
1
Dystros 24 Macedonian
142
2
Year 2
144
2
The Intercalations Under Euergetes
146
1
The Date(s) of the Canopus Decree
146
1
Apellaios 6?
147
1
Approximation Rules
147
1
A Simpler and Unified Approximation Procedure
148
1
Too Narrow a Sample?
149
1
The Canopus Equation
150
2
The Epoch of the Canopus Decree
Year 9 of the Reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes
152
1
The Possible Tetrads
152
1
The Past Tense
153
1
Year 10
154
1
The Four Scenarios
155
1
-238
155
1
Papyrus Tebtunis 814
156
5
The Hyperberetaios Embolismos in Year 4
161
1
Papyrus Cairo Zenon 59355
162
1
-237
162
1
The Rate of Intercalation
163
3
Papyrus Petrie III 53 (S)
166
1
The Panemos Embolismos in Year 16
166
3
The Case for Scenario (2)
169
3
The Muddled Seasons:
The Egyptian Seasons
172
2
From PRT to SMW
174
2
Velikovsky on the Moveable Feast of Isis
176
2
The Implementation of the Canopus Decree
Effective as of When?
178
1
Widening Perspectives
178
3
18-19-19-19
181
1
18-18-19-19
181
1
Dystros 24 Macedonian Passes the Heliacal Risings of Sirius
182
1
A Favorable Omen for Calendar Reform
183
1
Completing the Transition
183
2
The Aftermath of the Canopus Decree
The First Quadrennium of the Canopic Calendar
185
1
Year 16 and Year 12/13
186
1
The Abandonment of Biennial Intercalation
187
1
The Unexpected Triennium
188
1
-4240 and All That
189
2
If They had But Known
191
4
PART THREE: THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLIER EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY
Some Calendrical Anachronisms and Their Possible Resolution
A Look Farther Back
195
1
``Do Ancient Calendars Contradict Velikovsky?''
196
1
Who Said That?
197
1
Eclipses
197
1
Did They Really Say That?
198
1
A Nickel in Change
199
1
And They Said that When?
200
1
The Two Lands
200
1
Heinsohn
201
2
Free Fall
203
2
The Remaining Sothic Dates
The Eight Sothic Dates
205
1
The Aswan Inscription
205
1
The Medinet Habu Inscription
206
1
The Elephantine Inscription
207
1
The Ebers Papyrus
207
1
Confirming What?
208
1
El-Lahun
209
1
The ``Firm Anchor'': A Reassessment
The Edgerton Challenge
210
1
A Useful Convention
211
1
The Lunar Evidence
211
1
Neither Consequences nor Trivial
212
1
The Four Variants
212
1
An Important Tetrad
213
1
Memphis
214
1
A Day Away
215
1
The Days of D
216
2
Hypothesis I and Hypothesis II
218
1
The Quality of the ``Fit''
219
2
Posting the Scores
221
1
The Dates on the Right
222
1
Poor Seeing
223
1
Assessing the ``Firm Anchor''
224
1
A Rule for Intercalation
225
1
The Moveable W3G-Feast
226
1
The Chronology of Krauss
227
4
The Chronology of Luft
231
5
In Search of a New Anchorage
Down to the First Millennium
236
1
Limited Options
237
1
The First Approximation
237
1
A New Approach
238
2
The Fit
240
2
The Wag-Feast
242
1
``Lettered'' and ``Unlettered''
243
1
The Three ``Unlettered'' Cases
244
4
The Three ``Lettered'' Cases
248
1
Deja Vu
249
1
The Scribe of D
250
3
Summary
253
2
Middle Kingdom, Middle First
``A Family Feud''
255
1
Sebeknefru and Alexander the Great
256
1
The Last Amenemhet
257
1
More on the Co-Regencies
258
1
The End of the Era
259
1
Co-Regencies and Chronology
260
1
A Co-Regency in Reserve
261
2
213 Years, or 169 Years?
263
1
The Beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty
264
1
Kings of the Valley
265
1
Valley of the Kings
266
1
Worn-Out Labels
266
1
The Velikovskian Nomenclature
267
1
The Revised Chronology
268
3
What About the Eleventh and Thirteenth Dynasties?
271
1
The King of Kings
271
1
What About the Old Kingdom?
272
1
What About the King-Lists?
273
1
Gardiner's ``Archaistic Revival''
273
1
Pervasive Antiquarianism?
274
1
The Last Obelisk
275
1
Bronze Age?
276
2
Radiocarbon Dating
278
3
And More
281
1
Manethon Redux
The Last of the ``Three Pillars''
282
1
``The Shackles''
282
2
``None the Less''
284
1
Of Two Minds
284
3
The Dynastic Sequence
287
2
The Surviving Stretches
289
1
How Much of This did Manethon Understand?
290
1
Thirty-One?
291
1
The Original Manethon
292
1
The Aigyptiaka
292
2
The Three Sequences
294
1
Having His Cake and Eating it, Too
295
4
APPENDICES
Appendix One: Astronomical Support for the Amuru-Persian Equation
Ammisaduqa-Ochos
299
1
Hammurabi-Darius
300
2
The Agricultural Contracts Under Hammurabi
302
2
Appendix Two: Some Calendrical Comments: A Miscellany
The Osorkon Flood
304
1
The Modern Olympics
305
1
The Chinese Eclipse of -775
305
1
The Assyrian Eclipse of -762
305
1
The Founding of the City of Rome
305
1
Heaven Not Devouring the Moon
306
1
The Era of Nabonassar
306
1
The Chinese Eclipse of -708
306
1
Other Eclipses from the Spring-Autumn Annals
307
1
Sin Mao
307
1
Appendix Three: Was the Julian Calendar A Sothic Calendar?
The Julian Reform
308
1
Sosigenes
308
1
Julian-Sothic?
309
1
Egypt, Too?
310
4
The Luck of the Triennia
314
 
Other Explanations?
312
3
Bibliography
315
14
Index
329