A Golden Calendar from the Bronze Age

Mörner, Nils‐Axel; Lind, Bob G.; Henriksson, Göran

doi:10.4236/ad.2018.62004

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“…It shows 9 six-spoke Sun wheels and two semilunar arcs. The Sun symbols agree well with our previous described objects with six-spoke Sun wheels [10] [11].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The two semilunar arcs, we interpret in terms of solar eclipses. So far the interpretations agree well with previously described objects [10] [11].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…A group of 9 six-spoke Sun wheels are shown together with two semilunar arcs. The 9 Sun wheels are obvious analogues to the ones described on "the Golden Sky Dom of Mjövik", the rock carving at Stora Backa in Brastad and from the Sun-temple at Sippar in Mesopotamia as discussed in [10] and [11].…”

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“…We have published a number of papers on astronomical monuments and object from the Bronze Age in Sweden [1]- [11], out of those papers the last two [10] and [11] referred to the six-spoke Sun wheel found on "the Golden Sky Dome from Mjövik" in SE Sweden, the rock-carving at Stora Backa at Brastad in SW Sweden and on a stone tablet from the ancient Sun-temple at Sippar in Mesopotamia. All these three objects are from the Bronze Age.…”

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“…The six-spoke Sun wheel symbols record the course of a year in six segments all representing 60 days per segment and 360 days in total for the whole year (as further discussed in papers [10] and [11]). It was a novel finding calling for ex-International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics tended research.…”

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New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia

Mörner¹,

Lind²

2018

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Six-spoke Sun wheels have previously been described by us from Mesopotamia, rock-carvings in Sweden and a golden sky dome from Sweden. The division of the Sun wheel into six segments refers to the six double-months of 60 days, and a full annual cycle of 360 days. In this paper we report the findings of a stone carving with 9 six-spoke Sun wheels and two solar eclipses found and depicted in 1840 in Denmark. The spokes in the nine Sun wheels are in N-S, E-W and NW-SE direction. The NW-SE line co-insides with the sunset at summer solstice and sunrise at winter solstice, which is in full agreement with the alignment of the famous stone-ship of Ales Stones in southernmost Sweden. The new stone carving in Denmark provides a confirmation of the deep knowledge in astronomy existing among the Bronze Age people, all from Mesopotamia up the Scandinavia.

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“…It shows 9 six-spoke Sun wheels and two semilunar arcs. The Sun symbols agree well with our previous described objects with six-spoke Sun wheels [10] [11].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…The two semilunar arcs, we interpret in terms of solar eclipses. So far the interpretations agree well with previously described objects [10] [11].…”

Section: Interpretationssupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: A Remarkable Bronze Age Imagementioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia

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2018

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Indus wheel-like symbols: signifying solar-disc, sun-god, ruler, fire, and metallurgical meanings in wheel-shaped amulets, tablet-iconographies, seal-inscriptions, and inscribed metallic implements

Ansumali Mukhopadhyay

2023

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This article claims to have identified the six-spoked-wheel-like Indus script signs as sexpartite-disc based solar, fire and metallurgical symbols used in Indus civilization. It identifies the six-spoked-wheel shaped pure-copper artifacts found from 4000 BC Mehrgarh as funerary solar-wheel amulets, and links them to the solar iconography ( ) depicted above a deity’s head in Indus tablets. It further argues that the wheel-based signs , found on certain inscribed copper/bronze implements, and also in seal/tablets, were symbols for metallurgy and metal-smithy related crafts and/or commodities, inspired from the fire symbolism associated with Indus solar-disc symbol . Similar spoked-wheel-like solar symbols have been used in ancient Mesopotamia, and Europe. Most importantly, the Vedic texts of ancient India repeatedly use spoked-wheel based epithets for the sun-god and the fire-god, and evince important links between the gods of sun, fire, and metallurgy. This article further claims that in Indus seal/tablet inscriptions, which according to the author’s previous articles, semasiographically/logographically encoded rules and information related to taxation, trade/craft licensing, commodity control, and access control, the solar-sign metonymically signified some type of ruler or ruling body, endowed with the sun-god’s divine authority. This possible metonymic usage of the wheel-sign as Indus script’s ruler-symbol, inferred from the general observation that people of ancient civilizations often associated rulers with divinities (especially solar divinities), and used divine symbols (especially solar symbols) as royal symbols (e.g., ancient Egypt, and Maya civilization), get strongly corroborated from various numismatic and textual evidences of ancient historical and pre-historical India, where rulers have been repeatedly associated with sun-gods, and wheel-symbols have been used as royal symbols. For example, in ancient India’s punch-marked coins, solar symbols and six-armed-wheel symbols were often used as royal symbols, whereas several Indic words for kings/rulers (e.g., "cakravartīn", "cakrin") are etymologically connected to the wheel-word (“cakra”). The use of a solar symbol as a royal symbol across Indus settlements indicate the existence of a pervasive sun-cult in Indus civilization.

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Ales Stones in Southern Sweden: A Remarkable Monument of the Sun Cult and Advanced Astronomy in the Bronze Age

Mörner¹,

Lind²

2019

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Ales Stones is a famous stone ship in southern Sweden. Besides its size (69 m) and location right beside the shore of the Baltic, it is a remarkable monument of the Sun Cult and very advanced knowledge of astronomy by the Bronze Age people. This paper summarizes the findings, and puts it into the context of other monuments in southern Sweden. Also presented are a new time-correction of the sunrise at Winter solstice 700 BC and a remarkable sun-wheel on the Island of Bornholm of astronomical dimensions almost identical to those of the Ales Stones monument: the Madsebakke Sun-wheel. It all provides a congruent picture of intensive Sun Cult activity and close connections between of southeast Sweden and the Island of Bornholm.

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A Golden Calendar from the Bronze Age

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New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia

New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia

Indus wheel-like symbols: signifying solar-disc, sun-god, ruler, fire, and metallurgical meanings in wheel-shaped amulets, tablet-iconographies, seal-inscriptions, and inscribed metallic implements

Ales Stones in Southern Sweden: A Remarkable Monument of the Sun Cult and Advanced Astronomy in the Bronze Age

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