Like Egypt, the astrological knowledge in the British Isles was extensive anciently. Stonehenge appears to have been built on the rising of the sun at the summer solstice, but the Hurlers in Cornwall are held prima facie to have been built based on the helical rising of the Pleiades on May morning 1600 BCE approximately (ERE, ibid., p. 64). The knowledge at the time of the Exodus was at least as advanced as this. The Egyptians could not only calculate the month with precision, they could also calculate the Sothic cycle and the helical rising of Sirius, centuries before the Exodus. The name Shams is found in the Arabic. Shams is the Sun goddess and is feminine. The Moon god Qamar is masculine. The poetry goes as follows: It is no disgrace for the sun to be feminine nor anything to boast about for the moon to be masculine. This masculinity of the moon god is seemingly derived from the watering freshness and, hence, growth power of the cool desert nights prior to the heat of the day. The Egyptian and Babylonian systems seem to have applied the concept also of Healing to the name. The name of the Egyptian priest Jambres (SGD 2387) seems to be related to this concept also. The use of names based on the moon extends into the Book of Enoch where the angel given charge for the path of the moon is ’Seriel (layrhv) (cf. Knibb, The Ethiopic Book of Enoch, Vol. 2, p. 83). The term dawn of God or moon of God (Shariel or perhaps Sahariel) is uncertain. Sun of God (Samsiel) being the fifteenth angel preceding Shariel as the dawn of God or perhaps the moon of God (Knibb, ibid., p. 74) is tied in to the concepts found in the text in Exodus where the people rose up early (i.e. before dawn) to sacrifice and to feast. The use of the Greek Sarinas for the angel of the moon system, which is as Sariel, is another problem for the scholars dealing with the late second-Temple texts.
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