22-12-2020, 07:00 PM
Yesterday I posted a post on my blog, but since it is quite volume, I'd like to briefly explain here what I think the Rosettes diagram represents, in particular the central rosette. My conclusions are based on the analysis of the structure of this diagram and the analysis of numerical values in the complex.
This study was inspired by an excerpt from the III c. Gnostic text of the Gospel of Judas:
The twelve aeons of the twelve luminaries constitute their father, with six heavens for each aeon, so that there are seventy-two heavens for the seventy-two luminaries, and for each [of them] five firmaments, [for a total of] three hundred sixty [firmaments …].
Back in 2016, when we were counting different things on the Rosettes page, it seemed to me no coincidence that the central rosette contains 72 tubes, grouped by 6 pieces. In addition, there are about 70-72 asterisks in the "star veil". At that time I couldn't understand what the gathering of 12 groups of pipes of 6 pieces can talk about. I studied this issue for a long time to find an explanation for this, besides the biblical one that we mentioned. It turned out that this is a very ancient model of the division of the sky, associated with the peculiarity of the division of the year (calendar of 360 days: 72 weeks of 5 days). And although the calendar changed long ago, in the first century BC and in the first century AC, some philosophers considered the ancient cosmology to be more true and sacred, especially since the Bible also kept the secret of just such a structure of the universe. Therefore, some religious and philosophical movements included in their teachings just such a cosmology, the cosmology of the ancients. At the moment, I found a clear match only in the Gnostic texts, but I am sure that these are not all sources.
In general, the numbers 72, 12, 6, 13 and 7 fit perfectly into the cosmology of the Gnostics. If we add to this the images of stars, sun, moons, clouds and water, then the cosmological picture becomes even clearer.
If we talk about flows, about hints at various movements and states of a liquid, then an alchemical or eschatological meaning comes to mind, but there are other possibilities.
It is interesting what paleographers and historians would say, from which sources the author could get such data?
Besides, I compared the Rosettes diagram to tetradic diagrams with different context, and consider it complicated tetradic diagram, not usual, of course.
This study was inspired by an excerpt from the III c. Gnostic text of the Gospel of Judas:
The twelve aeons of the twelve luminaries constitute their father, with six heavens for each aeon, so that there are seventy-two heavens for the seventy-two luminaries, and for each [of them] five firmaments, [for a total of] three hundred sixty [firmaments …].
Back in 2016, when we were counting different things on the Rosettes page, it seemed to me no coincidence that the central rosette contains 72 tubes, grouped by 6 pieces. In addition, there are about 70-72 asterisks in the "star veil". At that time I couldn't understand what the gathering of 12 groups of pipes of 6 pieces can talk about. I studied this issue for a long time to find an explanation for this, besides the biblical one that we mentioned. It turned out that this is a very ancient model of the division of the sky, associated with the peculiarity of the division of the year (calendar of 360 days: 72 weeks of 5 days). And although the calendar changed long ago, in the first century BC and in the first century AC, some philosophers considered the ancient cosmology to be more true and sacred, especially since the Bible also kept the secret of just such a structure of the universe. Therefore, some religious and philosophical movements included in their teachings just such a cosmology, the cosmology of the ancients. At the moment, I found a clear match only in the Gnostic texts, but I am sure that these are not all sources.
In general, the numbers 72, 12, 6, 13 and 7 fit perfectly into the cosmology of the Gnostics. If we add to this the images of stars, sun, moons, clouds and water, then the cosmological picture becomes even clearer.
If we talk about flows, about hints at various movements and states of a liquid, then an alchemical or eschatological meaning comes to mind, but there are other possibilities.
It is interesting what paleographers and historians would say, from which sources the author could get such data?
Besides, I compared the Rosettes diagram to tetradic diagrams with different context, and consider it complicated tetradic diagram, not usual, of course.