Sothis
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It was the star of Sept or Sothis, and, according to one myth, was identified with the goddess Hathor—the Aphrodite of the Greeks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Before the Sothis period of the kings, the gods had ruled over Egypt, to whom, therefore, a number of Sothis cycles, naturally more extensive than those given to the rule of men, was allotted.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
Thus to the Egyptians this star Sothis was "the Lady of the Beginning."
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
It seems that the priests comprised the whole duration of the world in twenty-five Sothis periods, i. e. in 36,525 Egyptian years.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
Sothis, the Dog Star, fixed the beginning of the Egyptian New Year, 467-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
