From: Pardis Barjesteh
Sent: Thu 3/19/09 10:46 PM
Greetings Earthlings,
On Friday March 20 at 4:44 am Pacific Time, the Sun's rays will cross over the Equator, marking the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. In Iran we have celebrated this as No Ruz (New [Year's] Day) for several millennia, and even today this Zoroastrian observance is the biggest holiday of the year. Our calendar is basically the zodiac: the first month corresponds with Aries, the second month with Taurus, etc. Since a month is on average thirty days, and each of the twelve signs of the zodiac are measured as thirty degrees of the 360 degree ecliptic of the heavens, against which the Sun and other planets are seen to circle from a geocentric perspective, in Iran everyone's birthday is an indication of the sign and degree of the Sun in their natal chart. For example, if you were born five days after the Spring Equinox, your birthday would be the fifth day of the first month and your Sun would be at five degrees Aries, the first sign. Not to say that astrology is any more widely known in Iran today than anywhere else, or that people are generally aware of their natal solar position, but there is certainly an interesting tradition behind this. It is now fairly unanimously agreed upon by Biblical scholars that The Three Wise Men in the Bible were Persian Zoroastrian astrologers, and that the term Magi was the name of a particular group of practitioners.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Phosphorus and Hesperus / Lucifer and Vesper
From: Pardis Barjesteh
Sent: Sun 3/8/09 10:46 PM
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"Likewise believing Venus to be two bodies, the Ancient Greeks called the morning star Φωσφόρος, Phosphoros (Latinized Phosphorus), the "Bringer of Light" or Ἐωσφόρος, Eosphoros (Latinized Eosphorus), the "Bringer of Dawn". The evening star they called Hesperos (Latinized Hesperus) (Ἓσπερος, the "star of the evening"), but by Hellenistic times, they realized the two were the same planet. Hesperos would be translated into Latin as Vesper and Phosphoros as Lucifer ("Light Bearer"), a poetic term later used to refer to the fallen angel cast out of heaven." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus)
Sent: Sun 3/8/09 10:46 PM
complete archived text coming soon...
"Likewise believing Venus to be two bodies, the Ancient Greeks called the morning star Φωσφόρος, Phosphoros (Latinized Phosphorus), the "Bringer of Light" or Ἐωσφόρος, Eosphoros (Latinized Eosphorus), the "Bringer of Dawn". The evening star they called Hesperos (Latinized Hesperus) (Ἓσπερος, the "star of the evening"), but by Hellenistic times, they realized the two were the same planet. Hesperos would be translated into Latin as Vesper and Phosphoros as Lucifer ("Light Bearer"), a poetic term later used to refer to the fallen angel cast out of heaven." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus)
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