Venus

The illustration on the right side of this page shows the Dendera Zodiac in its natural state with no rotations applied to the stones and with the God that represents Venus highlighted in the night sky circle. The decryption rotations need to be applied to the stone circles to be able to start to analyse the manner in which the planet Venus is encoded into the carving, which can be performed by clicking the next button.


The illustration on the right of the page now shows the Dendera Zodiac in its unencrypted state with the decrypted celestial axes from the planet Mercury's geometry puzzle drawn in white.

1) RESOLVING VENUS'S FRAMEWORK

To start the analysis of Venus the sculpture needs to be studied to find how the geometry of Mercury from the previous page and the geometry of Venus combine in the carvings. To this end, the inner circle of the outer hieroglyph ring can be drawn onto the illustration and the intersection of this circle with the N-S axis line of the celestial axes from the Mercury page can be marked using a small yellow marker point. Click the following button to add this to the illustration.


This intersection point is directly in line with the staff of the Venus God and it becomes clear that the celestial axes will need to be repositioned once again, just like they were at the start of the Mercury page. If the southern section of the N-S celestial axis line is rotated around the intersect point by 15.482° anticlockwise it falls perfectly onto the staff line of the Venus God, which can be shown by clicking the next button.


The rotation angle of this line is not arbitrary. It is a value taken from the final ephemeris data on the previous Mercury page, that being the Y value of the state vectors that were shown at the bottom of table 6. The value is given in Astronomical Units (AU) in that table and needs to have its units changed into radians so that 0.27021282303338 rad = 15.482054330127829°, which is the rotation angle that has just been applied to achieve the alignment shown on the illustration.

This extended God's staff line has a yellow marker at each and of it, and a third marker in the middle of the line which coincides perfectly with the left hand of the Venus God and confirms that the geometry so far is correctly understood. To complete the initial set up of the Venus system, the celestial axes need to be repositioned so that their origin is located on the marker point of the Venus God's hand and the axes need to be rotated into position so that the celestial north axis is pointing to the top left of the sculpture along the staff line. This alignment can be animated onto the illustration by clicking the next button.

2) SOLVING VENUS USING NASA DE441 DATA

It is a reasonable and correct assumption that the next stage in the process will be to duplicate the system that was seen on the Mercury page and animate the three principal astronomy angles onto the illustration. To solve the system the NASA ephemeris data for Venus, at the moment given in DE441 for the geometric winter solstice of 2729 BCE, is required.

The extended staff line and outer hieroglyph ring have now served their purposes and can be removed from the illustration by clicking the next button, leaving just the Venus celestial axes and Venus God on the illustration.


The first of the astronomy angles that needs animating is the longitude of the ascending node angle of Venus projected from the ICRF reference plane onto the plane of the orbit of The Moon, which is the plane of the Dendera Zodiac. This can be shown on the illustration by clicking the following button.


The angle is shown by the red coloured arc and the line of the ascending node is shown by the red line. There are no carved features on the Dendera Zodiac that match with this line, just as was the case for the Mercury geometry. The next angle that needs to be shown is the argument of periapsis which can be animated onto the illustration by clicking the following button.


Once again there are no features on the sculpture that align with the apsis line, but it is known from the Mercury geometry that the focal points of the planets orbit now need to be drawn onto the illustration. Because Venus has a near circular orbit these focal points are very close to the center of the ellipse and can be calculated by applying the eccentricity of the orbit from the NASA DE441 data to the radius of the outer circumference of the outer hieroglyph ring of stone. The focal distance is just over 1 cm and the points can be shown on the illustration by clicking the next button.


The final astronomy angle that needs showing is the true anomaly because the system needs to replicate that which was used on the Mercury page, and this line can be animated onto the illustration using the next button.


The blue line represents the true anomaly line in the geometry and is very nearly aligned with the top right corner of the outer square frame of the Dendera Zodiac and also with the hand and elbow of the standing God in that corner of the sculpture. To get these alignment points to fit the line the whole of the geometry that is on display can now have its center point moved from being at the center of the orbit ellipse of Venus at the left hand of the Venus God onto the focal point that is to the east of the center point, that being the the same selection as was used on the Mercury page. The movement is small, is barely noticeable and can be applied using the next button.


The coloured arcs can be removed from the illustration and the bounding box of the sculpture can be shown along with the three angle lines, so that the alignment points of the true anomaly line can be seen more clearly, by clicking the next button.


The blue line passes through the bottom of the God's staff on the inner night sky circle, then along the finger tips and elbow of the standing Goddess, misses the heels of that God, and then passes directly through the top right corner of the sculpture's bounding box. The purpose of aligning with the square frame is two fold. Firstly it is to inform you that the GM mini planet system carving that is attached to the outer frame, and which was discovered on the Mercury page, is used once again on this page when the extraction of the Standard Gravitational Parameter is performed. The second reason is because when the system moves on the the next page where The Earth is analysed, the Venus celestial axis alignment comes into question and you need to be certain at this stage that the alignment is water tight, which it is.

3) EXTRACTING THE EPHEMERIS DATA FOR VENUS

The numerical ephemeris data that corrects that of the DE441 ephemeris can be extracted from the stonework in an identical manner to the way it was extracted on the Mercury page. Rather than rotating lines around the illustration the angles of the rotations are marked onto the illustration using circular white arrows with the angle's value written on them. Where there is no carved element on the sculpture that aligns with a rotation angle, which is the case for the starting values in each sequence of numbers, no line is drawn onto the illustration. Where there is a carved element on the Dendera Zodiac that aligns with the rotation angle being applied, a line is drawn on the illustration at this angle and the carved feature is highlighted using an elongated yellow box at the end of the line so that the underlying carving can still be seen. The angles that are projected from the ICRF onto the plane of the orbit of Venus are shown with red text, and all other angles are shown in black text.

Click the next button to draw just the celestial axes on the illustration along with the gravitation carving on the bottom frame line of the sculpture.

4) THE DENDERA EPHEMERIS DATA FOR VENUS

The full ephemeris of Venus taken entirely from the Dendera Zodiac is shown below in table 8. The values in the table that were not directly extracted from the stonework have been calculated from the extracted values using the software than runs this website by applying standard celestial mechanics formulae.

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