celestial-body
Sirius
The bright dog-star of later Greek naming; Egyptian Sothis-speech is another name for this light, not a second star. Not generic star, and not unpublished Sopdet the goddess.
Also known as Sothis
Astrology
Sirius is used in Astrology.
Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats Sirius among the fixed stars whose rising and nature enter judicial charts. Hellenistic handbook use of the dog-star, not generic star-astrology and not unpublished Sopdet.
from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE
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Mesopotamian tradition
Sirius appears in MUL.APIN.
Hunger and Pingree’s MUL.APIN attests the Arrow Star (MUL.KAK.SI.SÁ) among Mesopotamian star-names, identified with Sirius. Cuneiform list-work, not Ptolemy’s judicial dog-star and not generic star.
from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier
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Egyptian religion
Sirius appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead seats Sopdet/Sothis — Sirius — among sky powers tied to the dead’s going forth. A named Sirius in that corpus, not generic star alone and not Orion as Sah already filed separately here.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Sirius is sacred to Isis.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the dog-star / Sothis with Isis — Sirius as Isis’s star in Egyptian calendar and cult speech as that Greek treatise tells it. A named Sirius–Isis cult link under this source, not a missing sothis id and not a horoscope dump.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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sources
- Tetrabiblos · Claudius Ptolemy
Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos.
- MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree
Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).