Illustrations List - 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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General Query: 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
Illustrations List
This was the list of illustrations intended for inclusion in Chapter 2 that was provided by the author (this list was omitted from the chapter body because none of these images was provided or easily locatable). Can you help us identify them, source them, figure out what their rights situations are (and if they are copyrighted, help us find similar open-source or public domain or creative commons alternatives), and suggest a place to insert them in the chapter body if possible?
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Illustrations List for Chapter 2
1. The Five Regular Solids, their sides, vertices, and angles.
This may be related to another query (in the section The Dodecahedron and Its Four Related ‘Regular Solids’) about an illustration or chart, possibly from a work by A. Seidenberg—perhaps:
- A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of Geometry,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 1 (1962a), pp. 488–527.
- or A. Seidenberg, Lectures in Projective Geometry (New York: 1962c). [Observatory Editor’s Note: If this is the case, we will need to add this item to the Chapter 2 Bibliography.]
2. Alex Marshack’s inscribed bone with lunar notations.
3. Alex Marshack’s Magdalenian baton, correlating seasonal phenomena into an Ice Age local zodiac.
4. The “dissonance” between the lunar and solar years.
5. How the rising and setting sun established directions.
6. The horoscope and its zodiac. The clock face is 360 degrees, except that the “12” is now on top, not on the “left” or west where the sun really rises, or at the bottom, where it is at midnight. Thus, the watch face has become “rotated” and decontextualized from its horoscopic beginnings.
6A. Division of the day on the same basis as the year.
7. The Babylonian akitu house outside of the city—like a baby born on a naval cord outside the mother’s body, the New Year is born and celebrated in the akitu house. (Then, back to the city center, for copulation on the ziggurat, in the giginu bowered room.)
8. Symbolic representation of the ziggurat and its levels. Compare with planetary “sevens” and other odd numbers. Cosmological interpretation.
9. Archaic dances with circular movements, apparently emulating the circular movements of the sun, moon, and planets.
