In Greek mythology, which came long after the Mazzaroth
was formed, the horse Pegasus belongs to Perseus. The Greeks perverted the true meaning of the
constellations in their myths. In their
story, Perseus delivers Andromeda.
In truth, this represents Messiah Y’shua delivering his captive
bride. Here He is seen holding Rosh Satan, the head of Satan in His
hand.
Like sparks flying from the sword, every year this meteor
shower brings to mind that day which shall surely come, when Messiah will
defeat His enemies and the enemies of His people and come to reign on Earth as
King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Halleluyah!!!
The Hebrew name for Andromeda is Sirra, the
chained. The theme for Sirra
is the redeemed in their bondage and affliction. Some of the stars in this constellation
are Al Phiratz, the broken down; Mirak, the weak; Al Amak, struck down,
Adhil, the afflicted; Desma, the bound.
The picture in Chart 443 portrays the following verses of
Scripture.
“Hear now this thou afflicted….
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion;
Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem.
Shake thyself from the dust;
Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,
daughter of
Zion.
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold
yourself for
nought;
And ye shall be redeemed without money.”
(Isaiah
51:21 – 52:3)
The delivered bride is shown making herself ready and is
arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright white, in the constellation Casseopea,
the captive delivered, and preparing for her Husband, the Redeemer.
The following article concerning this year’s Perseid
Meteor Shower is from Space.com and was written by Robert Roy Britt on July 12,
2007.
August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'
“The
annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a great show this year,
peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour.
The
Moon will be out of the way, leaving dark skies for good viewing as Earth
plunges through an ancient stream of comet debris. Little bits, most no larger
than sand grains, will vaporize in Earth's atmosphere, creating
sometimes-dramatic "shooting stars."
"It's
going to be a great
show," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the
Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. "The Moon is new on August 12,
which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors."
How many?
This
year the Perseid
meteor shower could deliver one or two visible streaks every minute during
peak times, Cooke said in a statement yesterday. Urban skywatchers will see
fewer due to local light pollution.
The
meteors in this shower all appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus.
The best times to watch will be late night Aug. 12 through dawn Aug. 13.
"The
August Perseids are among the strongest of the readily observed annual meteor
showers, and at maximum activity nominally yield 90 or 100 meteors per
hour," said Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Skywatching columnist.
"However, observers with exceptional skies often record even larger
numbers."
Observing tips
To
see the show, one need only find a comfortable spot with a clear view of the
northeast horizon, away from local lights. A dark rural location is best. Lie
back on a blanket or lounge chair and scan the entire sky. In the late evening,
starting around 9 p.m. local time, sharp-eyed observers might see
"earthgrazing" meteors that skim the northeast horizon.
"Earthgrazers
are long, slow and colorful," Cooke said. "They are among the most
beautiful of meteors." But don't expect more than a handful in an hour, he
said.
Later
and during the overnight hours, the shooting stars will be higher in the sky as
Perseus rises. Some skywatchers enjoy counting
the number of meteors they see per minute, per hour or during a 15-minute
interval and comparing notes.
Telescopes
and binoculars are no help, as the meteors move too swiftly and are best observed
with the naked eye.
The
cosmic rivers of debris have been laid down for millennia by the comet Swift-Tuttle,
which passes through the inner solar system every 130 years. Perseid meteoroids
are exceptionally fast, entering Earth's atmosphere at roughly 133,200 mph (60
kilometers per second) relative to the planet, slamming into the air like bugs
hitting a windshield.”
NOGAH TO BECOME MORNING STAR AGAIN
The
planet Nogah (Venus) spends about half of a year in the evening sky and
the other half in the early morning sky.
Its Hebrew name, Nogah, means bright and its Coptic name, Surath,
means morning twilight. It is
the bright and morning star.
Venus
has been in the evening sky for many months and is about to disappear from the
evening sky, and will not be seen again after that for about three weeks, when
it will be seen in the early morning sky just before sunrise.
The following article by Joe
Rao is a July 13, 2007 Space.com news release.
Curtain Call for the Evening Star
“Venus has been a prominent
evening object since last winter. But it will finally relinquish the title of
"Evening Star" in less than three weeks.
Its departure will be quite
dramatic.
Tonight, Venus is still fairly
high up in the west-northwest sky at sunset and sets about 100 minutes later.
It is now also glowing at its greatest brilliance, blazing at an eye-popping
magnitude of -4.5; more than 17-times brighter than Sirius, the brightest
star in the sky.
On this scale, smaller numbers
represent brighter objects, and negative numbers are reserved for the brightest
of all.
On the evening of Friday the
13th, Venus will pass 1.7-degrees below the bluish star Regulus, the
brightest star of Leo, the Lion. (For a comparison, the apparent width of the
moon is roughly equal to one-half degree.) But poor Regulus is no match for
Venus, as it will appear only 1/229 as bright, so you may actually need
binoculars to see this star against the twilight sky.
On Monday, July 16, you'll see
a crescent moon well to the right of Venus. And hovering just
above and to the right of the moon on that same evening will be the planet
Saturn. The next evening, the moon will have moved well away to the
upper left of Venus.
Venus will be setting about
four to five minutes earlier each night, so it will be dropping noticeably
lower and getting deeper into the glow of evening twilight during the waning
days of July. On July 26, Venus will be setting only about an hour after
sundown and by the end of July, that will have diminished to only 45 minutes;
by then you'll need a clear and unobstructed horizon to spot it. A few days
into August and it will be gone from our evening sky.
Curtain falls for Act I
That will mark the end of Act I
for the 2007 Venus show. Then will come about a three-week
"intermission," as it sweeps between the Earth and the Sun (inferior
conjunction) on August 18.
Then, just a week later it will
begin to emerge into view as a morning object, rising in the east about 45
minutes before sunrise. That will mark the beginning of Act II: By the end of
August, Venus will be rising around 5:00 a.m. local daylight time, and
ultimately will become a brilliant predawn fixture in the eastern sky for the
balance of this year.
During the rest of this month,
and again toward the end of August, Venus will appear as beautiful crescent in
telescopes and even steadily held 7-power binoculars. That crescent will be
getting progressively thinner during July, with the illuminated portion of
Venus' disk diminishing from 26-percent on July 13th, to only half of that by
the 27th and less than 10-percent by month's end. That crescent will also be
getting progressively larger in apparent size as Venus approaches the Earth. On
the 13th, it will be 41 million miles (66 million kilometers) away.
But by Aug. 1, that distance
will have diminished by 11 million miles (18 million kilometers) and the
filament-like crescent will appear 27-percent larger.
Parting is such sweet sorrow
For those who have been so
accustomed (as I have) to seeing their brilliant friend greet them each evening
at sundown in the western sky, it might actually seem a little sad to finally
see Venus finally go.
But as American writer, Richard
Bach once wrote: "Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary
before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends."
And indeed, this will be only a
temporary farewell to Venus; by the end of August her friends can meet up with
her again in the eastern sky before sunrise.”
The following article on Venus
is from Francis Rolleston’s Mazzaroth, which was written in 1862.
ON THE PLANET VENUS
In the Egyptian Planisphere this
planet is delineated as a woman, under her name Athor, she who cometh; the
Christian Church, or the Church of God, in all ages. She is in a kneeling
position under her house Taurus, seven stars, the Pleiades, before her. As
after the time of the siege of Troy tradition says one vanished, this figure
refers to a date previous to that time, 1000 BC. The swine, enemy of the
Serpent, is after; the Ram, of the sign Aries, with the circle of a complete
era on his head, before.
From the little respect paid by
the Egyptians to the planets, compared with that paid to the more brilliant of
the fixed stars, it may be inferred that they knew them to be but earths, while
the stars were suns, probably by tradition from the great founder of the
science, the Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt and Greece, the great, thrice great,
who did not share the destiny of other men, the Prophet Enoch, of whom is
recorded, "God took him."
The Egyptians knew,
what the Greeks did not for a long time, that the morning and the evening star
were the same planet: Pythagoras is said to have been the first who pointed out
this fact to the Greeks; he is also said to have acquired his astronomy with
other knowledge in Phoenicia. What the Phoenicians then knew must have been
known to the Hebrews, at that time a highly civilized nation, and having had
the instruction of Solomon. They therefore must have recognized the planet
under both its aspects. As an evening star it is not mentioned in Scripture,
and it is doubtful whether it is alluded to as a morning star, except in the
Apocalypse. In Isaiah 14:12, Lucifer is in the original Hillel, the shining,
the brilliant, a name which has no affinity with any extant of the planet
Venus, though much with many names of the Sun, as Heli, Sanscrit, and Helios,
Greek. If, however, from the mythology of the ancients, we may infer the
original symbolization of the planet Venus, as a type of the Church of Him who
was to come, the Sun of Righteousness (Mal 4:2), both these aspects will be
found expressive and suitable. Before the first coming, the Church as the
morning star, heralded the Sun by prophecy; and in the evening star typified
the declension of the Jewish dispensation, still however transmitting some rays
of the splendour of the promised Messiah. After the Sun of the first coming was
set, the twilight of the great apostasy began to close around; when the Church,
as the planet Venus, receding from the source of light, became less bright,
even while increasing in apparent magnitude, it might well be typified by the
evening star; again approximating to the Sun, disappearing from our sight, to
rise in renewed splendour as the morning star announcing His return.
Venus, the beloved, the bright,
the star of evening, descending and declining in brilliancy after the departure
of the sun, but to return as the morning star with increased splendour at his
reappearance,—by all tradition spoken of as the bride of a divine person, of
Mars or of Odin,—is an expressive and suitable type of the Church, falling away
and to be restored at the second coming of her Lord, as the bride of Christ,
the Lamb's wife of the Apocalyptic vision. The invariableness of this tradition
is the more remarkable, as the Germans and other northern nations made the moon
masculine, as in the well-known legend of Anningait and Ajut among the
Laplanders.
This planet was considered sacred to the Assyrian
goddess Baltis, הלעב, who is represented with a star on her head, and
standing on a lion. "A female divinity called by Diodorus Siculus, Hera
(who bears, רה), held in her right hand
a serpent by the head,
and in the other a sceptre," probably originally a branch. Layard identifies
her with Astarte,* starry, רהא, and Mylitta, bringing forth, הרלי.
* Zohara is the Arabic name for the planet Venus.
"You ought, if possible, to get a sight of
Lepsius' Introduction. Only one volume is out, and not translated. I hold him
to be a great charlatan in many things, but as regards scholarship he is
unrivalled; and in this volume every thing that can be said on Greek and
Egyptian astronomy is to be found. It is a quarto of magnificent print, and I
can lend it you if you like. If you look to Pliny, Hist. Nat.
ii. 6, you will see what he says about Pythagoras and the evening star.
The Greeks strictly called Hesperus the evening star, Phosphorus the morning
star; the Latins, Lucifer and Vesperugo.
"What Lepsius says is
briefly this, 'Authorities are then given.' The fifth planet, the star of
Aphrodite, is called by the Greeks Heosphoros, called by Aristotle Hera. The
morning star is Sion or Toone, Toone being morning. Kircher said the
Coptic for Venus was Souroh."* (C.H. Cottrell)
* Heb. הרהש, star of twilight.
NOTES
A Spanish missionary wrote in
Mexican (1529) the traditions of their religion, &c., which he had gathered
from the Mexicans themselves. This is published in vol. vi.
of Lord Kingsborough's great work. (B.M.)
At Palenque is found a vulture
slaying a serpent, and the cross among sacred emblems; also, a woman and child,
holding a branch, receiving offerings; also, seven stars on a blue ground,
probably the Pleiades (?); and a man and woman with a sword between them.
Many Hebrew words may be found in
the dialects of the Indians, as Abba, father.
The
name of the sun was Naolin, הלענ, who arises, comes. (Lord Kingsborough, B.M.)
When the sign Aries (the white
rabbit) arrived, they fasted for the fall of the first man.
Much has been written on the
Cabiri of Samothracia, the three potent divinities. Cabir appears to have been
the Gentile equivalent of Cherub, "like the mighty," Cabiri being
"like the strong" or "mighty," also, though from a
different root. The triad of the Greeks and Romans was, of the god of the
heavens, the god of the sea, and the god of the infernal regions, or separate
state; but the Egyptians and Oriental heathen made theirs of father, son, and
mother. (This mother was however not like the Freya of the Scandinavians, but
represented the planet Venus; she was Isis, Isha, the woman of Genesis 3:15,
and of the sign Virgo.) Such, too, we find it in Mexico; while in Polynesia we
find it of father, son, and bird, as may be seen in the London Missionary
Museum.
[The following is an extract from
a letter of the clergyman referred to earlier (Zodiac of Esne). It was received
by the Writer of Mazzaroth a few days before the close of life, and accepted as
a correct and beautiful application of the figures to which it relates. A
friend, who was in daily intercourse with the lamented Writer of this work at
the time, testifies of the pleasure with which the idea contained in the letter
was dwelt upon by the spirit so soon about to pass from amid symbols to
realities.]
"The figures of the five
planets in the Dendera Planisphere are all of them distinctly characteristic.
One of them is unclothed, Venus, and in a kneeling attitude, with four dolphins
erect on her head. Does this figure symbolize the Church of Christ (Nogah), His
'beloved,' here in her state by nature, to be clothed only in His
righteousness, and made 'to sit with Him in heavenly places?' If so, such raising up may be indicated by the four dolphins erect on
the head of this kneeling figure—a dolphin being the ancient symbol of raising
or lifting up. The Church's future elevation in glory seems indicated likewise
by a youth sitting on a lotus on the right of the four dolphins, the meaning of
which is, 'hidden but to come.' 'When Christ who is our life shall appear, then
shall we also appear with Him in glory.'
"If my rendering of the
Planet Venus in the Dendera Planisphere is correct, it might account for the
Greek fable of Venus rising from the sea."
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Perhaps I should start a “most
ridiculous item of the month” column when things are slow or when there is not
much to speak of celestially. Well, I
did find an interesting article, so here is the first and hopefully the last
“most ridiculous item of the month.”
The
following is a July 18, 2007 Associated Press release.
Mystery
Object From Sky Identified as Woodchipper Part
BAYONNE,
N.J. (AP) -- A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a home had NASA
and Federal Aviation Administration officials scratching their heads.
It
didn't look "very space-y,'' said Henry Kline, a spokesman for NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's obviously made for
something ... But we wouldn't know what to do with it.''
It
didn't appear to be an airplane part either, the FAA said.
Finally,
FAA spokesman Jim Peters said Wednesday, a colleague in his office solved the
mystery: It was part of a commercial woodchipper. The same part from
another woodchipper's grinder had caused similar confusion last year, he said.
How it
got on a Bayonne roof was anyone guess, but Peters had a theory. The grinder
piece moves very fast and, apparently, it can launch into the air if something
goes wrong.
The man
who lives in the house was watching television Tuesday when he heard a crash
and saw a cloud of dust. In the next room, he found the hunk of gray metal, 3
1/2 inches by 5 inches, with two hexagonal holes in it.
The
part was being returned to Bayonne Police on Wednesday, Peters said.
"It belongs to somebody,''
Police Director Mark Smith said.
YHVH bless
you and protect you from the darts of the enemy and flying woodchipper parts.
