Sothis
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The Egyptians worshipped the star as Sothis, and it was believed to be the abode of the soul of Isis.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
The legs of Sothis are stablished, and I am born in their state of rest.”
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson
This Sothis period commenced either in the year 5702 B.C., or, according to the arrangement of Lepsius, with the year 4242 B.C.
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
Her soul resided in Sothis on the Dog-star.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
