About the Foroughi Cup and about the seven planets in the Ancient World

Autor: Codebo, M., De Santis, H.
Jazyk: English<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 31-37 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2310-2144
DOI: 10.24411/2310-2144-2018-00008
Popis: The Foroughi Cup is an artefact of the 8th century BC of Aramaic cultural context, inside which images of stars and constellations are reproduced. In this study of ours we start from the conclusions reached by Amadasi Guzzo and Castellani in their two works of 2005 and 2006 and we add some further considerations and identifications. We then explain the hypothesis that some cultures of the Ancient World include seven planets, excluding the Moon and the Sun, because Mercury and Venus, always visible only at dawn or at sunset, were perhaps considered four different planets. Finally, we propose the thesis that their evil character depends, as for every new star (novae, supernovae, comets, etc.), on the fact that they alter the synchrony of the cosmos with their variable motion (variable declination heaven bodies).
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