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

The history of Egypt must comprise a definite number of Sothis periods.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

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 Duncker, Max

Either the calendar did not originate in Egypt, or it was introduced in 2780 B.C., when again the heliacal rising Sothis fell on the first of Thoth.

From The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by Reisner, George Andrew

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