Astrology / Astrology Talisman
They were used to protect people / their inner selves. The power of this talisman is the combination of metals, every metal is connected and strengthen different qualities in the person, in accordance with its principle. The Chaldean order ties together, those qualities in a way that puts each quality in its right place in relation to the others, that way its power will express itself in its maximum and still maintain equilibrium with all the rest. This tying up and hierarchy, creates an order that resonates with the order of those qualities and their manifestation in reality.
Zodiac Signs
The Constellations are their guide. The zodiac signs are still the same until today.
Sundials
The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape of a concave hemisphere, a shape like the inside of a bowl that mimics, in reverse, the apparent dome shape of the sky.
As the sun moved across the sky above, the shadow of the gnomon or pin would trace the reverse of its course through the inscriptions on the curve below. The hemispherium was carved out of a block of stone and its inner surface scored with eleven lines, dividing the hemisphere and the passage of a shadow through the day into twelve equal parts. The pin of the hemispherium cast its shadow from the center of the hemisphere, such that the noon-day sun would have no shadow at all. The hemicyclium functioned on the same principle, but part of the hemisphere was cut away to facilitate the reading of the shadows, and the pin was placed horizontally at the lip of the dial.
It played as their modern day clocks making it an advantage at telling time.
Courtesy of
http://www.ka-gold-jewelry.com/p-articles/chaldean-astrology.php
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsc13b.htm
They were used to protect people / their inner selves. The power of this talisman is the combination of metals, every metal is connected and strengthen different qualities in the person, in accordance with its principle. The Chaldean order ties together, those qualities in a way that puts each quality in its right place in relation to the others, that way its power will express itself in its maximum and still maintain equilibrium with all the rest. This tying up and hierarchy, creates an order that resonates with the order of those qualities and their manifestation in reality.
Zodiac Signs
The Constellations are their guide. The zodiac signs are still the same until today.
Sundials
The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape of a concave hemisphere, a shape like the inside of a bowl that mimics, in reverse, the apparent dome shape of the sky.
As the sun moved across the sky above, the shadow of the gnomon or pin would trace the reverse of its course through the inscriptions on the curve below. The hemispherium was carved out of a block of stone and its inner surface scored with eleven lines, dividing the hemisphere and the passage of a shadow through the day into twelve equal parts. The pin of the hemispherium cast its shadow from the center of the hemisphere, such that the noon-day sun would have no shadow at all. The hemicyclium functioned on the same principle, but part of the hemisphere was cut away to facilitate the reading of the shadows, and the pin was placed horizontally at the lip of the dial.
It played as their modern day clocks making it an advantage at telling time.
Courtesy of
http://www.ka-gold-jewelry.com/p-articles/chaldean-astrology.php
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsc13b.htm