Robert Tulip

Jesus Christ - Avatar of the Age of Pisces

Abstract: There is growing debate about whether or not Jesus Christ was a real historical person as described in the gospels. The "Christ Myth Theory" suggests the Jesus story was invented, based on other deities around the Mediterranean, including many that were largely solar in nature. Here I explain how observation of a visible movement of the stars known as the precession of the equinoxes could have been used to make Jesus the imaginary founder of the zodiacal Age of Pisces.

(link to full essay, 1000 words)

thief of fire

i'm curious why you see Aries as the first sign, and ignore Moses coming down from the mountain to destroy the bull and also don't incorporate the "twins" previous to that?

Robert Tulip

Aries is first sign in the annual cycle, based on the traditional idea that the year begins in spring and ends in winter. So, when the ancients were watching precession, they could see that exactly at the time of Christ, the stars and seasons would be aligned, with the first month after the equinox occupying the time when the sun was in the stars of Aries, as the start point for all twelve months with their respective constellations.

Before Christ, the sun was already in sidereal Aries at the equinox. After Christ, the sun did not reach Aries from Pisces until after the equinox. At the time of Christ, the sun moved constellations at the equinox, in a perceived Goldilocks moment of cosmic harmony when the world and the stars were in tune.

Regarding the interesting stories of Moses and the golden calf, or the twins, I am most interested to focus on the Jesus story for now, but would be happy to tell you what I think about the Ages of Taurus and Gemini. Exteding to that time frame also brings in the need to measure and adjust precession against the climate orbital cycles discovered by Milankovitch.

thief of fire

Only if "ancients" means people who lived at the time of christ. If "ancients" means people living earlier then we could start with say, Taurus, or Gemini, which could be said to make more sense in view of the alignment between the milky way and the ecliptic.

Robert Tulip

Good point. We should consider human evolution against the long sweep of time. The precession cycle operates over a roughly 24,000 year time frame, with an age every 2000 or so years.

Considered against the alignment of the Milky Way and the Ecliptic, it appears the galaxy and the zodiac form the X described by Plato in the Timaeus as the intersection of the same and the different. So the movement of the seasons against the galaxy provides a long term structure of time. The equinoxes last crossed the galaxy at the time of the shift from the Age of Gemini to the Age of Taurus, defined in Christianity as the fall from grace.

The cherubim with flaming swords standing at the gate of paradise remind me of the constellation of Gemini, guarding the path back to the Golden Age of the dawn of the holocene when the equinox was in Leo. This Age of Leo theme is interesting, especially in view of the Leo-Aquarius axis inscribed in the stela of the Sphinx of Giza.

Robert Tulip

The Phenomenology of Time and Eternity.

The philosopher Martin Heidegger, founder of existentialism, held that the phenomenology of time provides a framework to analyse the relation between time and eternity. This existential method enables us to consider time as the main phenomenon used for the construction of mythology, with the march of time producing cycles with primary phenomenological meaning.

Phenomena are things as they appear. Noumena are things as they are. Phenomenology is the method of using language to explain phenomena. Language provides access to appearance, as a mirror of noumenal reality. The main phenomenal appearance of life is the flow of time, providing the structure of history and identity.

Time is measured by the noumenal physical clockwork processes of orbital mechanics. The earth has three main structures of time, as noted by Copernicus, the day, the year and the precession. The phenomena of these regular periods, seen in ephemera, are linked in measurement with the old Babylonian sexagesimal 60 based counting system. The precession has period roughly estimated at 25920 years (actually 25764 years). The structure of the day is based on the precession period, with the number of seconds in three days equal to ten times the estimated number of years in the precession period.

Further to the three main structural periods of terrestrial time, the year is divided in four by the seasons, defined as orbital functions of the passage of the sun across solstices and equinoxes, and the seasons each mark three months, defined as zodiac signs. The month links the earth to the periods of the orbits of the moon and Jupiter, with roughly twelve orbits of the moon and one twelfth of an orbit of Jupiter per year.

The number twelve is the phenomenal basis of time. This is an important physical discovery which has not previously been explained scientifically.

The key to understanding how the cycle of twelve provides the structure of terrestrial time starts from the physical observation that the solar system is a cocoon protecting the earth. The sun contains 99.8% of the system mass, with the planets and other flotsam forming the remainder. The entire system is moving around the galaxy along the arc of its center of mass. Our genes have orbited the galaxy some eighteen or so times since the dawn of life four billion years ago, sweeping majestically along the line of the center of mass.

In measuring the position of the center of mass, astronomy shows that the movement of the sun with respect to the center of mass exhibits a wave function with a definite twelve-fold structure. This structure is produced by the fact that the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune have a conjunction cycle of period 178.9 years and arc 30 degrees. (Uranus is the fourth factor but is not significant for this structure).

The thirty degree JSN conjunction arc is decisive for showing the twelve fold resonance of the earth and the solar system. This angle is the same as the hours of a clock, with each hour thirty degrees of arc apart on a clockface. As a result, these three planets chime the hours of the zodiac age. That is a picturesque way of describing something purely scientific and objective. It also means the eternal return of the same has period 2147 years or one zodiac age. So, the pending wide Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune conjunction of the 2020s repeats for the first time the position these planets had 2147 years ago, slightly drifted apart.

The solar system itself has a wave pulse of period 178.9 years, clearly demonstrable by Fourier Transform of the wave function of the center of mass. The main orbital powers that compose the complex wave of the center of mass are the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, the Jupiter-Neptune cycle, and the Saturn-Neptune cycle. These three periods combine to chime the hours of the age, forming the pulse of the sun, and the outer cocoon structure of terrestrial time.

A paper I wrote about this a few years ago is at The Gas Giant Planets, The Great Year and the Holy City.
Fourier Spectrum Analysis is at this excel spreadsheet.

This pulse of the sun is in harmonic resonance with the spin wobble period of the earth that drives precession of the equinox. This system resonance operates around the same structure as the hours of a twelve hour clock face, spatially shifted to a helix and temporally shifted to a millennial scale. Twelve hours of the pulse of the sun form one zodiac age. The age provides an umbilical connection between the earth as fragile protected content and the solar system as enwombing protector.

Just as Moon : Earth : Jupiter =~ 144 : 12 : 1, we find that this twelve based relationship structures the entire solar system cocoon for the earth, with the wave pulse period standing in one twelfth relation to the Zodiac Age, and the Zodiac Age standing in one twelfth relation to the earth’s spin wobble period. Therefore Moon : Earth : Jupiter = Pulse : Age : Wobble = 144 : 12 : 1.

System resonance at base twelve is supported by natural harmonics. Successive harmonics in music based on thirding the wavelength produce a high octave of the first note after twelve steps, separated by a number known as the Pythagorean comma. Mathematically, consider a note of 24 Hertz (G). A note of two thirds wavelength is 36 Hz (D). After twelve steps of the same function, we get back to eight octaves above the first note, with comma error of 1.35%. This error is why piano notes are based on the square root of two rather than on exact harmonic resonance. In terms of celestial mechanics, the centrality of natural harmonics based on a twelve step cycle means that the age resonance between the pulse and the wobble cannot be simply dismissed as nonexistent. The JSN conjunction points can be compared to the semitones of a scale.

The phenomenology of time defines the zodiac age as one twelfth of the earth’s main slow orbital cycle, the spin wobble producing the precession of the equinox. The resonance with the overall system pulse indicates existence of a real harmonic phenomenon, although there is no evidence that this temporal structure for our planet has any material effect.

To consider possible material effect, a first consideration is comparison against known related effects. The principle such effect is that precession drives glaciation cycles in coordination with three other orbital effects, the apsidal precession, obliquity of the axis and eccentricity of the orbital ellipse. By relation with apsidal precession, the precession of the equinox forms a glacial cycle of period 21,600 years, equal to the time it takes for the solstices and equinoxes to precess around the apsidal axis from perihelion (closest to the sun) to aphelion (furthest from the sun) and back.

When the North Pole is at perihelion on the summer solstice, as at the dawn of the Holocene, we have a glacial minimum. When the North Pole is at aphelion on the summer solstice, as at the depth of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, we have a glacial maximum. Ice core and sediment records show how the glacial record is driven by orbital mechanics.

The perihelion-solstice conjunction happened again in 1246 AD, and the perihelion has since advanced to early January, suggesting we are still in deep winter as far as the overall precession cycle is concerned. For climate, this cycle is modulated by ellipticity and obliquity to form longer inter-glacials as we are now experiencing, and of course utterly poisoned by the current extinctive emissions of CO2.

There are many more facets of these topics to discuss. I have here provided an overview sketch of the orbital mechanics, and will proceed to explain further how this phenomenal structure defining terrestrial time enframes mythology.

Here is a painting I just did to illustrate the twelve fold resonance of the cosmos.
Rainbow Christ
Detail: My God Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Clivedurdle

Would the symbol of the cross have been important in the development of these ideas?

outhouse

This is all laughable to me.

It seems to come from lack of knowledge on the subject at hand.



If this invention as you call it was so important, why is it completely and utterly out of context with what we have for written evidence.?



Everything you have, has been completely trampled by real historians doing real work. Zitgiest was funny to me, and its humor kept me watching, but only through the religious comedy produced.

mountainman

Sidereal and tropical are astronomical terms used to describe two different definitions of a "year." Which definition are you using? BTW thanks for the interesting excursion.

A recent article .... Bardaisan and Origen on Fate and the Power of the Stars - Journal of Early Christian Studies (December 2012), 20 (4), pg. 515-541

Sheshbazzar

Much of your math Robert, integrates very well with what I have learned of the ancient Hebrew system of linear measures which I perceive were founded upon the laws of Plane Geometry and Standard Units of time. It is wonderful to see how these differing lines of study and inquiry are now converging.
Your observations only further confirms those basic mathematical and geometrical principals that I encountered some 40 years ago.

Exciting and absolutely world shaking days are surely ahead if public comprehension of this body of ancient knowledge finally becomes part of our common knowledge.
The calendar systems that now prevail, will literally crumble and fall apart, along with that patina of 'authority' of those who devised and enforced them.