| | Summer is a Sphinx-ette!
Well, that explains the sand in my shoes and the strange calls I've been getting from an Egyptologist.
Actually, that is a different creature. We call the one in Egypt a "sphinx" but it is something else, perhaps a monument to Spring when Leo was at the peripoint
The Sphinx was a woman-creature. (So "sphinx-ette" is redundant.) See here:
http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?results=100&search=sphinx
These coins come from all over the Greek world. (Some from Egypt do show the lion-man.) Most show a female creature. Of all of these, the island of Chios is most commonly known for putting a sphinx on its coins. See an owl think Athens; see Pegasos, think Corinth; see a sphinx, Chios.
Allowing that rates may not be constant -- if we take the known 26000 year precession of the Equinox then, moving backward we have:
Today 2100 YA 4200 6300 8400 10,500 12,600
Aquarius ... Pisces ... Aries ... Taurus .... Gemini .... Cancer ... Leo ... Virgo ... Libra ....
Welcome to the age of Aquarius.
Ancient Christians use the Fish sign to show the coming of a New Age.
Michael Molnar is an astronomer and a numismatist who has written about Aries/Moon coins of Antioch also as indicators of the passing of an Age. Jesus was, after, all the Lamb of God as well as the Shepard (duality, you see).
Astronomers (real scientists, not astrologers) still call "spring" the "peripoint of Aries" when working orbital mechanics and celestial mechanics. It has not been that for a long, long time, but to the Greeks, the Babylonians, and others from about 2000 BC to about AD0/0BC the vernal equinox was the peripoint of Aries. So, we keep that.
Going back, you can pick your ages for whatever they are worth, but at 12,600 YA, at the end of the last ice age, you get the great flood.
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
David Lewis: "If the chicken had crossed the road, then it would have gotten to the other side in a world very similar to ours."
Ludwig von Mises: Crossing to the other side, the chicken expressed a preference for being on the other side.
Murray Rothbard: It was forced to cross the road despite its preference for being this side when the government monopolized the side that the chicken was on originally.
Early Ayn Rand: Because that is the nature of chicken qua chicken. (thanks to Luke for that, of course)
Later Ayn Rand: This is a dishonest question from a whim-worshipping existentialist.
Other Ayn Rand; I am not interested in such questions. I prefer to examine why humans cross roads.
Better Ayn Rand: To achieve her highest ideal, no matter how difficult the crossing. It was a violent no thrown at the face of a world that doubted that chickens could cross roads. Her triumph was to lay a golden egg.
Best Ayn Rand: To become my chicken soup because that was in my rational self-interest.
George W. Bush: I don't know why, but some people do, and we're going to find them.
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