of Israel as
The ancients related everything to the heavens so we should not be
suprised if the Twelve Tribes of Isreal had their heavenly comparable
"houses", if only because these Twelve Tribes were also assigned
specific geographic regions in the Bible, and such ownership "surveys"
were done in
ancient times by astronomy.
This is our speculative view of how it was done.
of the Biblical Passages
on the Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Biblical passages relating to the Twelve Tribes of Israel
are among the most puzzling in the entire Holy Book.
The following astronomical interpretation explains many of them
without difficulty, relating them to the Babylonian Path
of the Moon.
Simeon and Levi
are brethren; instruments of cruelty
are their habitations .... I will divide them at Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
The star Denebola setting (end of the habitation of Simeon and Levi)
finds Jacob, at the Pleiades, rising, heading toward Orion
(which is Schechem, or Israel, as the STONE of HEAVEN,
represented by RIGEL = the star known in Arabic as As-Rigel.)
and hence from there to be "scattered in Israel".
Simeon is thus
related to the month of Simanu
- the "realm" of stars is Sirius viz. Procyon to Regulus.
The hieroglyph for SIMEON is
a pouch, in Latvian, a SAIMIN-
bag") a homophonic symbol.
equivalent to Latvian LAUVA
(Lion) viz. LUSIS
and he represents LEO and the months of Levi and Av.
Simeon and Levi marked the Summer Solstice at this time.
a lion's whelp...The sceptre shall not depart from Judah...
until Shiloh come.... Judah (HYDRA) ends at Arcturus setting, noding
beta-Scorpionis setting and noding with the star Mira ceti rising.
Mira Ceti is Jared and represents Jordan - and this is the site of
Shiloh. The Biblical passage simply sets the stars rising and setting
enters the realm of
Zebulun, a "hermetic" Geography of
Judah is the
Akkadian month DUDU
Egyptian and Hebrew month Techi, Thoth and Tishri.
The hieroglyph for JUDAH is
a snake (Pharaonic DJD),
in Latvian CHU-ska
(snake) or ZUTis (eel).
shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be
for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Zebulun's realm ends at the node of the ecliptic in 2340 B.C.,
i.e. the underworld or sea of heaven at the end of Scorpio.
Scorpio rises as the stars set at the Fertile Crescent and Zidon.
Hence, here the Bible describes the node stars.
In terms of months,
this is Babylonian ZIBanitum.
The root for the
term is Latvian ZHUBURIN- "branch",
in Sumerian as SIPPAR.
a strong ass couching down between two burdens
and describes that portion of the sky we ascribe today to Hercules,
Atlas or Ophiuchus, holding the world on his shoulders.
This is Babylonian SUCHUR.
already translate the hieroglyph for DAN as
The symbol for DAN is easily explained in Latvian. DELNA is
flat of the hand (from Latvian DUO- "give" as in Pharaonic DUO)
plus the N for NIL- so both actually represent the sound DANIEL.
have already assigned a reading of NEHEB
to the hieroglyph
of NAPHTALI. We
find this in the comparable
Sanskrit month Nabhas.
corresponds to ASH.IKU in
the MUL.APIN series of
astronomical Babylonian cuneiform tablets as the Great Square
(see Werner Papke, Die Sterne von Babylon).
This corresponds to the month of ADARU.
a fruitful bough,
the stars of Aries, Perseus, and the Pleiades.
(the stone of Israel, which is Orion).
Jacob is Pharaonic Jabiru
and Sumerian Habur.
defiles his father's bed as the star Kappa-Orionis
Djedkare) sets - as beta-Scorpionis,
the node star at the ecliptic, rises. Heaven's bed is thus defiled.
This is the month of Ayaru, Urja, Ur,
The hieroglyphs for
BENJAMIN read in Latvian diBEN
(visage), i.e. BEN-GIMINS, meaning "the star below
Gemini", i.e. Betelgeuse. See months worldwide at Path of the Moon.
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