Sothis

Example Sentences

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Her soul resided in Sothis on the Dog-star.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

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 Wilson, Epiphanius

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 Duncker, Max

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

The more precise fixing of new year's day was accomplished through observation of the time of the so-called heliacal rising of the dog-star, Sirius, which bore the Egyptian name Sothis.

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