Knowledge of Planets in the Third Millennium BC
نویسنده
چکیده
Recent advances in archaeology, chronobiology, and history of science have made it possible to decipher hitherto obscure passages related to planets in the Indian books of the third millennium BC. A brief summary of this knowledge is presented. It is argued that the period of Mercury was obtained near the end of the Vedic age in India. This was celebrated in terms of the famous myth of Vishnu striding across the heavens in three steps. Once the planetary model was in place the gods of the planets were transferred into the inner psychological world.
منابع مشابه
Craft Specialization at Shahdad: Pottery Production during the third millennium BC
Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...
متن کاملClimatic Hazards of Fourth Millennium BC and Cultural p Responses of Human Societies Case Study: Tehran Plain and Qomroud-Gharachay Basin
Climatic conditions have dried up since the late 5th millennium BC as if Paleoclimate research in the northern hemisphere, particularly Iran and neighboring countries, shows unfavorable climatic conditions and several periods of severe drought during 4th millennium BC. Also, based on environmental sedimentological studies on archaeological sites such as Mafin Abad of Islamshahr and Meymanat Aba...
متن کاملAn Investigation into the Form of Bronze and Pottery Wares of the First Millennium BC, Preserved at the Samāvi Collection
By studying works of art remained from the past, various fields of study such as cultural, anthropological and artistic domains can be understood more clearly. These works can be found in national or private museums and examined in detail. A relativrly large collection of such ancient works has been compiled by Javād Samāvi (1954-2015), which includes vessels and artifacts from the prehistoric ...
متن کاملMiddle Holocene settlements at the western Foothills of Zagros Mountain in their Geographical setting (Survey of the relation between environmental setting and Geographical factors in the formation of the 4th millennium and early 3rd millennium BC si
Introduction The western foothills of the Zagros Mountains as a border area located between highlands of Iran and Mesopotamian lowlands, considered as an important archaeological study area. this area as a contact zone not only helping in better understand of the cultures located between this two different landscape of Near East (Mesopotamian lowlands and Zagros highlands), but by studying thei...
متن کاملPetrographic Analysis of the 6th Millennium B.C. Dalma Ceramics from Northwestern and Central Zagros
Sixth millennium BC Dalma ceramics from the northwestern and central Zagros have previously been described as beingimpossible to distinguish using decorative style analysis in spite of the great distance between the two regions. In thisstudy, petrographic (thin section) analysis and a small-scale electron microprobe project was carried out on the ceramicsof the two regions, as well as a small s...
متن کامل