Sothis

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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 Pike, Albert

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 Duncker, Max

Brugsch points out that, in certain inscriptions at Denderah translated by Mariette, “the Sothis star of Hathor-Isis is designated as ‘the right eye of Ra’ while the sun is termed the left eye.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

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

This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington