Kemenu
Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann
Kemenu (... ), [translation] ... ... is an Egyptian name, used in RSC/ ... .
<here comes a short explanation: what is the earliest known occurance, what does it mean in their culture, perhaps were it stems from if e.g. taken over from other roots...>
Concordance, Etymology, History
What does the term mean, does it always have the same meaning - was it changed over time.
Origin of Constellation
The constellation is mentioned in the Ramesside Star Clocks and identified by right ascension. Ramesside Star clocks (RSC) are astronomical devices developed in ancient Egypt to measure time by the, most likely, meridian or close to meridian transit of stars. These hour stars were single stars in a few cases or belong to constellations, some of them very large, of Egyptian sky maps.
There has been two dedicated approaches including an attempt to identify these hour stars: Leitz (1995)[1] and Belmonte (2003)[2]. Pioneers Neugebauer and Parker (1969)[3] thought this was a worthless exercise.
Leitz (1995)[1] followed N&P hypothesis of stars transiting close to the southern horizon and reached a solution which for Belmonte (2003) was not satisfactory for various reasons. These are amply discussed in Lull and Belmonte (2006 & 2009)[4]. This new hypothesis suggests that several RSC constellations were located in the northern skies such as the Giant (Nekht), the She-Hippo (Reret), the Mooring Post (Menyt) and the Bird (Apdu), among others of lesser entity (see also Davies, 1985[5]). The constellation Bird could be the one represented in the northern sector of several celestial diagrams.
Belmonte first defended his ideas at SEAC2001 in Stockholm (Belmonte, 2003)[2] that were later used for posterior works such as Belmonte and Lull (2023)[6].
Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation
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ancient manuscript 1 -
modern mapping by author XY
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ancient manuscript 2
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modern mapping by author AB
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something else ...
Religion/ Tales/ Mythology
mnemonic tales and cultural significance
Weblinks
References
- References (general)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leitz, Ch., 1995. Altägyptische Sternuhren. OLA, 62. Leuven: Peeters.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Belmonte, J. A., 2003. The Ramesside star clocks and the ancient Egyptian constellations. In M. Blomberg, P. E. Blomberg and G. Henriksson (Eds.), Calendars, Symbols, and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture (pp. 57–65). Uppsala Astronomical Observatory report, 59. Uppsala Ocarina Books.
- ↑ Neugebauer, O. and Parker, R. A., 1969. Egyptian Astronomical Texts, vol. III. Providence: Brown University.
- ↑ Belmonte, J.A. andd Lull, J., 2023. Astronomy in ancient Egypt: a cultural perspective. Cham: Springer.
- ↑ Davis, V. L., 1985. Identifying Ancient Egyptian Constellations. Journal of the History of Astronomy, 16, 102–104.
- ↑ Belmonte, J.A. andd Lull, J., 2023. Astronomy in ancient Egypt: a cultural perspective. Cham: Springer.
