ZODIACAL LIGHT
The Prophet Muhammed is known to have described zodiacal light in reference to the timing of the five daily prayers, calling it the false dawn, or al Fajr al Khaadib.
Muslim oral tradition preserves numerous sayings, or hadith, in which Muhammed describes the difference between the light of false dawn, appearing in the sky long after sunset, and the light of the first band of horizontal light at sunrise, the true dawn. Practitioners of Islam use the Prophet’s descriptions of zodiacal light to avoid errors in determining the timing of daily prayers. (source: Wikipedia)
This phenomenon was first investigated by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1683 and first explained by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1684.
Visible this weekend after sunset, look west for a ghostly triangle of light jutting upward from the horizon. If you can see it, you’ve spotted the Zodiacal Light:
The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. In mid-northern latitudes, the zodiacal light is best observed in the western sky in the spring after the evening twilight has completely disappeared, or in the eastern sky in the autumn just before the morning twilight appears. (source: Wikipedia).
A subtle glow appears over the small-town lights of Borrego Springs in Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert.
Photographer Dennis Mammana.
CODICES
Only four Maya glyph books, called codices, survive. In 2012 EYE OF THE SHAMAN there is a 5th. This “missing mystical” 5th is the, original one that was created by Shaman Way Pech.
Codices are painted on lime-whitened bark paper, folded accordion-style. The codices were likely produced in the late post-Classical period (1200-1519 AD). Some material in the codices , including astronomical tables, appears to have been copied or adapted from manuscripts of the Classical period (200 – 900 AD). The long count entry date of the Dresden Codex eclipse table, for example, correlates to 755 AD. This may date the original version of the table ( source: members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/zodiac.html)
MAYAN ZODIAC
The Paris Codex illustrates thirteen constellations along the ecliptic (one more than the twelve in the Old World zodiac). The constellations are apparently not illustrated in the order they appear in the heavens. Instead, each illustration is separated from the next by a count of 168 days.
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