- is
still used by many
Zoroastrian communities. A
heliacal year is the
interval between the
heliacal risings of a star. It
differs from the
sidereal year...
- The
heliacal rising (/hɪˈlaɪ.əkəl/ hih-LY-ə-kəl) of a star or a
planet occurs annually when it
becomes visible above the
eastern horizon at dawn just before...
- the 9th or 10th
Dynasty (c. 2100 BCE).
Because a new
decan also
appears heliacally every ten days (that is,
every ten days, a new
decanic star
group reappears...
- the
Egyptian civil calendar date on
which Sirius was
observed rising heliacally to the
Julian calendar date on
which Sirius ought to have risen, count...
-
phrase in
Matthew 2:2, "in the east," as an
astrological term
concerning a "
heliacal rising." This
translation was
proposed by
Edersheim and
Heinrich Voigt...
- plane) has
given it
importance in many cultures,
ancient and modern. Its
heliacal rising,
which moves through the
seasons over
millennia (see precession)...
- its
prominence in its constellation,
Canis Major (the
Greater Dog). The
heliacal rising of
Sirius marked the
flooding of the Nile in
Ancient Egypt and the...
-
certain °RA, e.g. for a
particular ideal day constellation1 is
rising (
heliacally: List 2), constellation2 is
setting simultaneously (List 3), constellation3...
- as a god,
called Sah.
Because Orion rises before Sirius, the star
whose heliacal rising was the
basis for the
Solar Egyptian calendar, Sah was
closely linked...
- ****ociated with the
rebirth of the Maya Hero Twins. For the Maya, the
heliacal rising of
Venus was ****ociated with
destruction and upheaval.
Venus was...
