The counting includes thirty-eight reed stacks, four horses with horns of Venus, and nine steps.
The angles include the following:
•the thirty-degree angle of the X on the body of Osiris, relative to the east-west axis
•the twenty-degree angle of the ankh to the staff
•the thirty-degree angle of the crown relative to the east-west axis, which is up
The four horns of Venus indicate longitude, and the angle of the crown indicates degrees. Combining the angles with the number of horns of Venus was the Egyptian multiplication method. Today, the French counting method is the same: eighty is four sets of twenty. Thus, the four horns of Venus represent four sets of thirty, or 120.
The X represents latitude. The angle formed between the ankh and the staff usually means longitude, but it can represent latitude.
Customer’s Harbor at Isle of Meroe
Starting at a harbor near the Nile reed fields, Canopus /Alexandria, the latitude is 31.2 degrees north. The boat goes nine steps south or nine sun-shadow degrees south. Using the golden ratio, nine steps is 14.4 degrees. Subtracted from 31.2, the predicted latitude for the Isle of Meroe is 16.8° N.
Isle Meroe latitude, actual: 16.9° N
Isle Meroe longitude: 33.7° E
The ankh and the staff form a twenty-degree angle. If this twenty-degree angle represents a sun-shadow latitude, the predicted latitude would be sixteen degrees north. Longitude was not of sailing concern on the Nile River because the seafarer was only going north or south.
Reed Field Harbor at Canopus/Alexandria
Latitude: thirty sun-shadow degrees north predicts an actual latitude of thirty-two degrees north
Longitude: zero degrees using the Nile as prime meridian translates to an actual longitude of thirty degrees east
The thirty degrees in the X represents the latitude of the reed fields, the starting point of the ocean trip. This harbor is the key harbor for all sailing, for this is the home port for all the Mediterranean seafarers returning to the customers of the Nile dynasties.
Supplier’s Harbor at Aztalan, Wisconsin
Latitude: 43.1° N has a predicted sun-shadow latitude of 37.5 degrees north
Longitude: 89° W translates to 119° W longitude base on the Nile River prime meridian
There are thirty-eight reed stacks, representing a sun-shadow latitude of thirty-eight degrees north for the otherworld. The predicted latitude, based on the golden ratio, is forty-four degrees north.
Based on the four horns of Venus, which has an angle of thirty degrees, a predicted longitude of 120 degrees west (4 x 30) of Alexandria, or 90° W, is calculated. This is the predicted longitude for this trip to the otherworld. This, by the way, is how the Nile dynasties multiplied. For example, eighty is four twenties. Appendix D gives more math examples.
The agreement of the latitude and longitude predictions for Aztalan, Wisconsin, is convincing.
North African Harbor: Tunis/Carthage
There is one additional harbor mentioned in Figure 12-2. The ankh and the staff, the five-thousand-year-old sextant, had an angle of twenty degrees. This ankh sextant can measure relative longitude and latitude. The seafarers would try to sail on a constant latitude, which was set at the thirty sun-shadow degree north latitude for this trip. Therefore, it is assumed that this angle formed by the ankh and the staff represents a longitude.
If the twenty-degree angle formed by the ankh and the staff in Figure 12-2 represents longitude, then the following interpretation is given: the twenty-degree angle is twenty degrees of longitude west of Alexandria, which is noted in Figure 12-1. This location is very close to Carthage, having a longitude of 10.3° E, where Carthage was definitely on the gold and copper routes, heading west. The return trip, shown in Figure 12-3, would explore the North African locations in more detail because there was more detail in Figure 12-3.
The twenty could also mean the trip’s starting latitude of twenty sun-shadow degrees north on the Nile River. This translates to an actual latitude of sixteen degrees north, which is the latitude for the Isle of Meroe.
Figure 12-2 illustrates the seafarer’s trip going west to the otherworld. The latitudes and longitudes correspond to a trip going from the Isle of Meroe, to the Nile reed fields (Alexandria/Canopus), Carthage, and eventually to the pyramids at Aztalan at the connection between the Wisconsin River and the Mississippi River. The assumption is made that the seafarers sailed on a thirty sun-shadow degree line of position and went 120 degrees west from Alexandria to the otherworld. If this is correct, it is profound to note that this course of a latitude of sun-shadow degrees of thirty (thirty-two degrees north) and a longitude of 120 west relative to the Nile Delta (ninety degrees west) are the coordinates for the Mississippi River Delta, where the Watson Brake stone circle and Poverty Point Harbor supply center are found, dating to 3500 BCE.
This may be a subjective interpretation, so let’s look at Figure 12-3 for the return trip from the otherworld.
Figure 12-3: Return trip from Isle Royale to Ireland and then to the Isle of Meroe
Figure 12-3 is found on the other side of the sarcophagus in the tomb dated 2415 BCE, and is the logbook for returning from the otherworld, the West, North America. The return trip has more glyphs based on the experiences the seafarers encountered.
Figure 12-3 shows the same concepts and characters as in Figure 12-2: a trip with the supplier delivering a commodity to a customer, with a navigator, an overseer, and a judge. There is more detail on the counting and the angles. This was probably needed because of the relevance for a safe return. Also, the return trip involved coming from Ireland, a more involved route than the outgoing trip. Since no symbols for gold existed in Figure 12-3, it is assumed that the metal—see the three-dot metal symbol in the right-hand column—was copper, for this was the Copper Age.
Also, there are two columns to the right side of Figure 12-3 that will be described at the end of this section, which is a summary of the outbound west journey and the return-bound travel route from the otherworld, North America. The details on the Atlantic Ocean crossing are sparse but increase in detail as the seafarer gets closer to the Nile River Harbor at Alexandria/Canopus.
This is consistent with the details needing greater specificity between the closest set of two harbors. For example, K67, Figure 8-9, has the needed navigation detail between two harbors between Ireland and Spain/Brittany. Kerbstone SW2, Figure 8-15c, at Knowth is a map of Ireland with eight spirals for the ports from and to Ireland.
Thus, the detail in Figure 12-3 relates to the needed information that a pharaoh had from the trip for gold or copper to sustain the kingdom.
Figure 12-3 is the logbook for returning from the otherworld with the following counts and angles:
The counting include forty-five reed stacks, eighteen lines below the reed stacks, ten lines below the throne, six lines below the rudder man off the boat, four flying birds, and nine steps.
The angles include the following:
•the forty-five-degree angle of the X on the body of Osiris, relative to the east-west axis
•the forty-degree angle of the ankh to the staff
•the thirty-degree angle of the crown
•a balanced scale, Libra
Harbor Locations
Harbor location of the supplier
Harbor(s) returning to the reed fields
Harbor location of the reed field
Harbor location(s) of the customer
The sailing harbors usually are within one day’s sail from the storage locations of the desired commodity, supplier, and the gardens of Eden of the rulers, the customer.
Location is determined by latitude and longitude. Thus, the counts and angles in Figure 12-3 must support these harbors.
Harbor Location of the Supplier
The return trip could take two routes: the southern or the northern route from North America. The clue is the forty-five reeds in Figure 12-3. These forty-five reed stacks represent forty-fiv
e sun-shadow degrees. The latitude for forty-five sun-shadow degrees north, using the golden ratio of 1.6, is a latitude of fifty-four degrees north. This is the return route from the otherworld, North America, to Ireland.
The following locations are at forty-five sun-shadow degrees north, or fifty-four degrees north: Carrowmore, Ireland; Iona, Scotland; and Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland. This is the shortest and fastest route to get to Ireland. If leaving from St. John, New Brunswick, the latitude is forty-five degrees north. The trade route may have traveled down the Mississippi, then to Florida, and then to St. John, New Brunswick, taking advantage of the Gulf Stream.
The forty-five sun-shadow latitude observation is reinforced by the forty-five-degree angle of the X below the throne, relative to the east-west line. Thus, the return trip from the otherworld used the latitude of fifty-four degrees north to cross the Atlantic.
The four birds replace the four horses in Figure 12-3, which represents the 120 longitude degrees back to the Nile reed fields. A Ra bird signifies a return and looking for the owner. Recall the birdman and the mounds on the Mississippi sites.
Harbor(s) Returning to the Reed Fields
The return trip continues from Ireland to the harbor, having an ankh/staff sextant angle of forty sun-shadow degrees. Carnac, Brittany, Egypt of the North, is at a latitude of forty sun-shadow degrees north or forty-eight degrees north. By 2500 BCE, the copper trade route back to the Mediterranean Sea went from Ireland to Carnac, Brittany, to Toulouse, east of the Pyrenees Mountains, and to the harbor of Narbonne (Chapter 10). The trade commodities—copper, tin, and gold—were then stored at, possibly, the Great Camp in the Languedoc region of France. This area was the storage distribution center and the Garden of Eden for the harbor at Narbonne.
The seafarer from the otherworld would sail to the south until the north coast of Africa was seen and then return on the thirty-degree sun-shadow latitude line of position to the Nile reed fields. Longitude now becomes important. Below the forty-five reed stacks are eighteen lines, indicating eighteen degrees of longitude. Relative to the zero meridian at the Nile reed fields, the eighteen degrees could be 12° E longitude or, in the Carthage region, the middle circle in Figure 12-1. From a longitude viewpoint, the eighteen lines could also refer to the island of Sardinia, which was part of the copper trade route from Carthage to France.
Below the throne are ten lines indicating ten degrees of longitude relative to the Nile reed fields, or 20° E longitude. This is the Benghazi area of Libya. On top of the left and right side of these ten lines are symbols for men rowing a boat.
The above three harbor locations were on the return trip from Ireland to the Nile River Delta.
Harbor Location of the Reed Field
The Nile reed field, Alexandria/Canopus, has a longitude zero degrees prime meridian, or 30° E, and a latitude 31.2° N. The seafaring boats would transfer the cargo to riverboats and sail south on the Nile River, as is seen by the boat in Figure 12-3.
The calculation to the latitude of the Island of Meroe is the same as in Figure 12-2. The nine degrees of sun-shadow latitude, nine steps, returns the seafarer to the Isle of Meroe. The same explanation and calculations are in Figure 12-2.
However, there are six lines beneath the rudder man after he gets off the boat. The transfer boat goes to a Nile Harbor, maybe Elephantine Island, due south, and above the six cataracts on the Nile River. The cargo is then transferred by land portage to the customer on the Isle of Meroe. The six lines either refer to six sun-shadow degrees before the harbor transfer or the six cataracts on the Nile.
The conclusion is Figure 12-3 represents a high-level return trip from the otherworld, and all of the counting and angles support this return from the otherworld, North America. The return trip calculates the latitudes and longitudes, which are remarkably similar to the actual positions of the harbors on the historic copper trade routes.
The supplier, Seth, delivers the commodities, with the oversight of Anubis. The commodities are delivered to the customer, Osiris, with Maat, the goddess of truth, balancing the weight of the commodities to indicate that what was shipped was received. This is symbolized by the constellation Libra, le Balance. The metal delivered is in the basin between the two water symbols, indicating that the metal came from overseas. The metal then is above the pharaoh’s knees. Note that the throne sits on blocks of metal, gold, or copper and implies that the kingdom is supported, based on the gold and copper that is being delivered.
Figure 12-3 continues to amaze because the right-hand columns are an executive summary of the outbound and return trips to the otherworld. Here we have to read from right to left.
Going from bottom to top of the right column represents the outbound trip. There is the water, the basin, the bird, a Ra bird, signifying a return and looking for the owner, the leg for going and coming, the staff symbol for one year, and the three-dot metal symbol. In other words, a trip will go for metal and will take one year. The top of the right column shows the basin and the bread symbols, so there will be planting at the destination’s Garden of Eden. The serpent points to the left-hand column for the return trip from the otherworld. Now the serpent is used for protection. Something of value is being returned. There is a basin and the water symbol.
Going from the top to the bottom in the left column, there are two staffs, symbolizing two years. So the total trip takes three years. The bench symbol is a symbol for sky or the god of the sky. The penultimate trip has now returned, reaching the Nile River and delivering the commodities to the customer.
The serpent reappears, indicating the dangers in coming closer to the customer’s home harbor. The cobra spits fire at the enemy and is used on the sterns and bows of the boats. At the bottom is the filled jar, a filled basket.
Figures 12-2 and 12-3 are so significant in the Nile River Dynasty’s illustrations that these two pictures showing seafaring trips, outward and inward bound, are replicated in at least three other pyramids over the next two thousand years. This will be the subject of another book, tentatively called the Great Green Copper Routes of the N’DNs.
Major seafaring trips are often illustrated in the per ankhs of the Nile River dynasties. Figure 12-5 shows a trip to Ireland and return to the Nile River before the penultimate trip in 2500 BCE.
Figure 12-5: A seafaring trip going to Ireland and returning to a Nile River Dynasty with trip days from the annals of Ireland (References 40, 34, and 1)
This Ireland (Harp) Trip will be described in The Great Green Copper Routes of the N’DNs book. Note the harp symbols in both the outward bound (black) and homeward bound (white) trips. Each segment of the harp in Figure 12-5a has zigzags indicating travel days between each segment that total about seventy. The sailing trip from the reed fields of the Nile to Ireland can be sailed in about seventy days (Figure 12-5b, Reference 34). Boats were even designed in harp shapes, Figure 12-5c.
In Figure 12-6, the harp’s shape, as depicted in Figure 12-5a, is overlaid on a map of the Mediterranean Sea. This pattern is more than coincidence (e.g., note the location of the reed fields of the Nile River and the harp). There are three dotted circles that I have emphasized in Figure 12-6. They represent the reed fields on the Nile River, the crossover point from Carthage through Sardinia to the south coast of Europe, and the two mountain ranges of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Between the glyphs showing the two mountain symbols are symbols showing that the basins are being replenished with grain. Directly below these symbols are the symbols for two and one hundred. It appears that the Harp Trip spent two hundred days in Southern France, Languedoc, to plant and harvest grains.
The spiral symbol represents the harbor at Byblos, a Nile Rivert Dynasty’s colony for trading and shipbuilding using the cedars of Lebanon.
The reed fields on the harp are colored green in the color versions of Figures 12-5 and 12-6. Green was the color representing the Mediterranean Sea. Blue represented the Nile River.
The eleven harp strings correspond
to the eleven sun-shadow degrees of latitude difference between two locations. The Nile reed fields are at thirty-two degrees, and the Ireland harbor at Cork is at forty-three degrees north using sun-shadow latitudes.
Figure 12-6: The Harp Trip to Ireland from the Nile River, author’s annotations
More decoding is needed for the outbound and return trips to Ireland shown in Figure 12-5. My objective is to illustrate that more seafaring trips than the penultimate sailing trip to North America for copper are found in the per ankh structures built by the Nile River dynasties. I will be referring to this trip to Ireland as the Harp Trip because it was taken many times. The detail information in Figure 12-6 is sufficient for me to sail from the Nile River to Ireland.
Figure 12-7a shows the grid system used by the Nile River dynasties.
Figure 12-7a: The Nile River Dynasty’s grid system (Reference 40)
Figure 12-7b: Connecting the dots to form the zodiac—what is above is bel (Reference 61)
This leads to Figure 12-7b showing the zodiac by connecting the star dots. The zodiac was displayed in many per ankh structures on the Nile River. One of the major reasons to connect the dots to form the zodiac was for navigation and for establishing grid systems on land.
The penultimate trip was recorded by Unas in the Fifth Dynasty, c. 2500 BCE. However, Pharaoh D’ewen in the First Dynasty, c. 3000 BCE, was instrumental in initiating the search for gold and copper. D’ewen was known as “He who brings water, initiates counting of gold, conducts census for cattle, starts a numbering system in hieroglyphics, and has sailing trips, c. 2900 BCE” (Reference 61).
Conclusion
The penultimate trip from the Isle of Meroe to the Isle Royale and return, via Ireland, was recorded. The logbook comes from the sarcophagus of Unas, the last king of the Fifth Dynasty, near Memphis, Egypt, c. 2415 BCE. Figure 12-2 shows the outward-bound trip on one side of the sarcophagus. Figure 12-3 is the homeward-bound return trip.
The trip took three years to complete. The counting and angles found in Figures 12-2 and 12-3 represent the latitudes and longitudes for the harbors of the customer, the supplier, and the Nile Delta reed fields. The customer was at the Isle of Meroe; the supplier came from near Aztalan, Wisconsin; and the return trip came back through Ireland; Carnac, Brittany; and a North African harbor near Carthage. What a trip to the otherworld—West.
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