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Menelai Sphæricorum libri III. Quos olim, collatis MSS. Hebræis & Arabicis, ... Præfationem addidit G. Costard, A.M. (Latin Edition) by of Alexandria Menelaus, 2010-05-27

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Menelaus
Name menelaus. Occupation From alexandria. Son of Occupation Datesfl. AD 100. Brief biography Contemporaries Works Domitian
http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/ter/grst/People/Menelaus.htm
Menelaus, Greek Mythology Link.
For it is said that menelaus, returning with five ships, came first to Sunium in helost his pilot Canobus, after whom the city east of alexandria was named.
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Menelaus.html

Extractions: By Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology Menelaus Menelaus Relevant links Menelaus in GROUPS "Look to my affairs, and to the household, and to our guest from Troy [Menelaus to Helen . Ovid, Heroides Menelaus is the king of Sparta who was robbed of his sweet wife Helen by a guest he received in his palace. For his sake, a fleet of unprecedented size sailed to Troy in order to demand, by persuasion or by force, the restoration of Helen and the Spartan property that the seducer Paris , breaking all laws of hospitality, had stolen. Youth King Atreus of Mycenae , having a serious feud with his brother Thyestes 1, decided to arrest him. For this purpose he sent his sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, who seized him in
Ancient Alexandria Abstracts -- October 11-12, 2002
Mostafa alAbbadi Professor emeritus, alexandria University The Island of Pharosin First, in an episode in the Odyssey, when menelaus encountered Proteus on
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cam/events/alexabstracts.htm

Extractions: Realism and Eclecticism in Alexandrian Art: Some Aspects Sfumato, genere e realismo, sono le definizioni più note per la plastica artistica di Alessandria. Mentre, poco nota è l'eredità del "classico", sia come tradizione dei filoni culturali del IV sec. a.C., sia come rivisitazione "neoclassica" del passato, sia, e di più, come sperimentazione nuova, di gusto "eclettico".
Leukippe And Kleitophon
Kleitophon has been living in alexandria, in no small part due to the effortsof menelaus. Kleitophon's grief for Leukippe has begun to fade.
http://chss2.montclair.edu/classics/Petronius/Leucippe.html

Extractions: Book I Introduction. The romance begins with information about Sidon, where the first narrator has put in after barely escaping from a violent storm. After making an offering to Astarte, he goes site-seeing, and comes to a picture of Zeus abducting Europa, which receives a vivid ecphrasis. As the narrator comments aloud concerning the power of Eros (here depicted as a child), a young man says "How well I know it, for all the indignities Eros has made me endure." Intrigued, the narrator invites the young man, who in fact is Kleitophon, the hero of the romance, to sit down and tell him his story. Achilles Tatius never returns to this frame narrative. Kleitophon first tells how he was born in Tyre; his father was Hippias and his half-sister was Kalligone. His uncle Sostratos lived in Byzantium. Hippias had planned for Kleitophon to wed Kalligone now that he was nineteen years old, but clearly the fates had different plans, which they perhaps signaled to Kleitophon by a dream in which he and his prospective bride, whose bodies were grown together, were separated by a sickle-wielding woman who looked rather like a fury. Soon Sostratos sends his wife Pantheia and his daughter Leukippe to his brother Hippias, so that they will be safe; a war with Thrace has put Byzantium in danger. Kleitophon falls in love with Leukippe at first glance; there is no sense that she fall in love with him at this moment, however. During that evening's dinner party and after going to bed, the flames of love grow ever greater within the tormented Kleitophon.
HMCo College Algebra Exercises, Chapter 7
TRIGONOMETRY). 1. menelaus's Theorem Write an essay about menelausof alexandria and his work in the area of trigonometry. Include
http://college.hmco.com/mathematics/aufmann/collalg/chapter7.html
India Archaeology: Archaeologists Unveil The Fascinating Finds At Herakleion, Th
likely one could be in 1303 AD, that destroyed two thirds of alexandria, and which Shewas the wife of menelaus, King of Sparta and was regarded as the most
http://www.the-week.com/21aug19/life2.htm

Extractions: Return of the Pharaoh Archaeology: Archaeologists unveil the fascinating finds at Herakleion, the most important discovery since Tutankhamen's tomb Anjana Das After conquering Egypt in 332 BC, Alexander set off to claim Asia. Before leaving, he told his architect Deinocrates to build a new capital, Alexandria, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Unfortunately, Alexander never lived to see it. According to Greek legends and historical references, there were three ancient cities-Herakleion, Canopus and Menouthis-on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. The most illustrious was Herakleion, also known as Thonis to the Egyptians. It was probably built by one of the last Pharaohs, between the 8th and 7th century B.C. The city, well known for its opulence and wealth, was also famous for the temples dedicated to the Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis. The Greek historian, Herodotus, had described the temple of Hercules in Herakleion when he visited Egypt in 450 BC. The city also served as a strategic sea port until the founding of Alexandria. Then, quite suddenly, it disappeared from history.
Library Of Alexandria
collections of records are the dim ancestor of the Library of alexandria and other andwhen he speaks of the great halls of Odysseus and menelaus, there's no
http://www.justpacific.com/bits'n'pieces/alexandrialib.html

Extractions: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s336540.htm Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National. Lingua Franca. Saturday 28/07/01 On this week's LINGUA FRANCA: THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA AND WHAT CAME BEFORE LIONEL CASSON Author of LIBRARIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD/YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Founded by Ptolemy I at the beginning of the third century BC, THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA is the most famous library of the ancient world. In his slim history LIBRARIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, American classicist LIONEL CASSON devotes a chapter to it - the third chapter. What preceded it? The beginnings have been found in palace archives - hoards of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform - in Mesopotamia: the ancient Near East. But critical to the development in the Hellenic world of the library as we know it were the adoption of the alphabet and the use of papyrus scrolls. Details or Transcript: THEME Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca, I'm Jill Kitson. The Library of Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy I at the end of the 4th century BC is the most famous library of the ancient world. Its collection of papyrus scrolls, said to have numbered nearly half a million, drew intellectuals from all over the Greek speaking world. It survived Julius Caesar's torching of the nearby dockyards in 50 BC to last beyond the era of the Ptolemys well into the 3rd century of the Christian era, when it was destroyed in a local uprising. In many respects, the Library of Alexandria was like any of our great modern public libraries: it sought to be comprehensive, to hold authoritative texts on all subjects; works were catalogued and stored in alphabetical order by subject. The Library was open to all scholars. In other ways, it was like a research school and a scholarly publishing house: its scholars compared and analysed texts, translated them, wrote commentaries, and undertook lexicography and the study of grammar.
Clement Of Alexandria: The Instructor, Book 3
Clement of alexandria on Early Christian Writings. Loving, departed, carrying awayher he loved, Helen, to the folds of Ida, having found that menelaus was away
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-instructor-book3.html

Extractions: THE INSTRUCTOR. BOOK III. CHAP. I.ON THE TRUE BEAUTY. IT iS then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God, not by wearing gold or long robes, but by well-doing, and by requiring as few things as possible. Now, God alone is in need of nothing, and rejoices most when He sees us bright with the ornament of intelligence; and then, too, rejoices in him who is arrayed in chastity, the sacred stole of the body. Since then the soul consists of three divisions; the intellect, which is called the reasoning faculty, is the inner man, which is the ruler of this man that is seen. And that one, in another respect, God guides. But the irascible part, being brutal, dwells near to insanity. And appetite, which is the third department, is many-shaped above Proteus, the varying sea-god, who changed himself now into one shape, now into another; and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness, to seductions. "At first he was a lion with ample beard."
Clement Of Alexandria: Stromata, Book 7
Clement of alexandria on Early Christian Writings. The Stromata, orMiscellanies. Book VII. For instance, the tragedy says menelaus.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-stromata-book7.html

Extractions: CHAPTER I THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST. It is now time to show the Greeks that the Gnostic alone is truly pious; so that the philosophers, learning of what description the true Christian is, may condemn their own stupidity in rashly and inconsiderately persecuting the [Christian] name, and without reason calling those impious who know the true God. And clearer arguments must be employed, I reckon, with the philosophers, so that they may be able, from the exercise they have already had through their own training, to understand, although they have not yet shown themselves worthy to partake of the power of believing. The prophetic sayings we shall not at present advert to, as we are to avail ourselves of the Scriptures subsequently at the proper places. But we shall point out summarily the points indicated by them, in our delineation of Christianity, so that by taking the Scriptures at once (especially as they do not yet comprehend their utterances), we may not interrupt the continuity of the discourse. But after pointing out the things indicated, proofs shall be shown in abundance to those who have believed. But if the assertions made by us appear to certain of the multitude to be different from the Scriptures of the Lord, let it be known that it is from that source that they have breath and life; and taking their rise from them, they profess to adduce the sense only, not the words. For further treatment, not being seasonable, will rightly appear superfluous. Thus, not to look at what is urgent would be excessively indolent and defective; and "blessed, in truth, are they who, investigating the testimonies of the Lord, shall seek Him with their whole heart." And the law and the prophets witness of the Lord.
The Story Of Hanuka (Chanukah)
and menelaus was restored. In 168 Antiochus went again into Egypt, and it lookedas if he would oust the Ptolemies. While he was at the gates of alexandria,
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/david_barnett/writings/Hanuka.html

Extractions: The Story of Hanuka (Chanukah) by David Barnett When I look at the Hanuka candles I connect with my ancestors. Their actions are as fresh today as they were nearly twenty-two centuries ago. Their motives and those of their enemies seem to be constants of human nature - as do their frailties. It is the quality of Judaism, which remembers (and is rooted in) the constants of human nature, which makes it forever young yet forever old and forever relevant. In 200 b.c.e. Antiochus III, the Syrian-Greek ruler of the Seleucid kingdom, defeated decisively Ptolemy IV, the Egyptian-Greek king, at Panium near the source of the Jordan. Both the Ptolemies and the Seleucids were successors to the empire of Alexander the great. For a hundred years the Ptolemies had ruled Judah from Egypt while the Seleucids tried to wrest it from them. The Ptolemies' main interest in Judah was levying taxes. This they did through the hated system of tax farming. Leading citizens would go to Alexandria and bid for local tax collecting privileges. Anything above their bid which they collected, they could keep. Anything less had to be made good from their personal fortunes. There were laws to limit the profits of the tax gatherers but there were also laws to encourage informers on tax evaders. Certain families cemented and multiplied their wealth through tax gathering. The most prominent such family, in this era, were the Tobiads.
JMM HM DICIONÁRIO
Translate this page Nicomedes (c. -220) Osíris, Menaechmus Nicomachus, Menaechmos Menelaos NicomachosNicomedes, Menaechmus menelaus Nicomachus Nicomedes, Papo de alexandria (c. 320
http://phoenix.sce.fct.unl.pt/jmmatos/HISTMAT/HMHTM/HMDIC.HTM
Nascutposibil Prin 70 ,Alexandria ,Egipt
menelaus din alexandria. Nascutposibil prin 70 ,alexandria ,Egipt.Mortprin 130. Cu toate ca stim foarte putine despre menelaus
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Extractions: Menelaus din Alexandria Mort:prin 130 "În prezenţa ta ,dragă Menelaus îmi este ruşine să afirm o propoziţie matematică,temelia ,aşa cum era ea ,pe care stă subiectul catoptricii(catoptrics)." Totuşi trebuie spus că propoziţia "Toate reflexiile cu unghiurile egale " nu este nici evidentă prin sine şi nici un fapt recunoscut. "A trăit "Cartea propoziţiilor sferice","Despre cunoştinţele asupra greutăţii" şi "Distribuirea corpurilor diferite".Trei cărţi despre Dintre numeroasele cărţi ale lui Menelaus a supravieţuit doar "Sphaerica".Ea tratează triunghiurile sferice şi aplicaţiile lor în astronomie .El a fost primul care a scris definiţia triunghiului sferic dând definiţia la începutul cărţii I: Cartea I din"Sphaerica" pune bazele pentru tratarea triunghiurilor sferice aşa cum Euclid trata triunghiurile plane.A folosit arcuri de cercuri mari în loc de arcuri Menelaus a produs o versiune pentru triunghiurile sferice care este Există şi alte lucrări ale lui Menelaus menţionate de autorii arabi dar care s-au pierdut.Dăm un citat mai sus dintr-un registru arab din secolul X care înregistrează o cartea numită "Elementele de geometrie" în trei volume care a fost tradusă de Thabit ibn Qurra în arabă.Mai menţionază şi o lucrare de Menelaus "Cartea Triunghiurilor " şi cu toate că ea nu a supravieţuit ,câteva fragmente a unei traduceri au învins timpul.
St. Clement Of Alexandria: THE STROMATA, OR MISCELLANIES (BOOK VII)
St. Clement of alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies. Book VII. For instance,the tragedy says menelaus. What disease, Orestes, is destroying thee? .
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02107.htm

Extractions: The Stromata, or Miscellanies CHAPTER I THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST. It is now time to show the Greeks that the Gnostic alone is truly pious; so that the philosophers, learning of what description the true Christian is, may condemn their own stupidity in rashly and inconsiderately persecuting the [Christian] name, and without reason calling those impious who know the true God. And clearer arguments must be employed, I reckon, with the philosophers, so that they may be able, from the exercise they have already had through their own training, to understand, although they have not yet shown themselves worthy to partake of the power of believing. The prophetic sayings we shall not at present advert to, as we are to avail ourselves of the Scriptures subsequently at the proper places. But we shall point out summarily the points indicated by them, in our delineation of Christianity, so that by taking the Scriptures at once (especially as they do not yet comprehend their utterances), we may not interrupt the continuity of the discourse. But after pointing out the things indicated, proofs shall be shown in abundance to those who have believed. But if the assertions made by us appear to certain of the multitude to be different from the Scriptures of the Lord, let it be known that it is from that source that they have breath and life; and taking their rise from them, they profess to adduce the sense only, not the words. For further treatment, not being seasonable, will rightly appear superfluous. Thus, not to look at what is urgent would be excessively indolent and defective; and "blessed, in truth, are they who, investigating the testimonies of the Lord, shall seek Him with their whole heart." And the law and the prophets witness of the Lord.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canopus
(Catholic Encyclopedia)Category Society Religion and Spirituality C Canopus formed, with menelaus and Schedia, a see subject to alexandria in AegyptusPrima; it is usually called Schedia in the Notitiae episcopatuum .
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03297b.htm

Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... C > Canopus A B C D ... Z A titular see of Egypt. Its old Egyptian name was Pikuat; the Greeks called it Kanobos, or Kanopos, after a commander of a Greek fleet buried there. The city stood in the seventh Nomos (Menelaites, later Canopites), not far from the Canopic mouth. It had many martyrs in the persecution of Diocletian, among others St. Athanasia with her three daughters, and St. Cyrus and John. There was here a monastery called Metanoia, founded by monks from Tabennisi, where many patriarchs of Alexandria took shelter during the religious quarrels of the fifth century. Two miles east of Canopus was the famous heathen temple of Manouthin, afterwards destroyed by monks, and a church on the same spot dedicated to the Evangelists. St. Cyril of Alexandria solemnly transported the relics of the holy martyrs Cyrus and John into the church, which became an important place of pilgrimage. It was here that St. Sophronius of Jerusalem was healed of an ophthalmy that had been declared incurable by the physicians (610-619), whereupon he wrote the panegyric of the two saints with a collection of seventy miracles worked in their sanctuary (Migne, P.G., LXXXVII, 3379-676)
Clement Of Alexandria: The Stromata, Or Miscellanie
THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY. Clement of alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanie.BOOK VII. CHAP. menelaus. What disease, Orestes, is destroying thee? . Orestes.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/strom7.htm

Extractions: T HE G NOSTIC S OCIETY L IBRARY BOOK VII. CHAP. l.THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST. It is now time to show the Greeks that the Gnostic alone is truly pious; so that the philosophers, learning of what description the true Christian is, may condemn their own stupidity in rashly and inconsiderately persecuting the [Christian] name, and without reason calling those impious who know the true God. And clearer arguments must be employed, I reckon, with the philosophers, so that they may be able, from the exercise they have already had through their own training, to understand, although they have not yet shown themselves worthy to partake of the power of believing. The prophetic sayings we shall not at present advert to, as we are to avail ourselves of the Scriptures subsequently at the proper places. But we shall point out summarily the points indicated by them, in our delineation of Christianity, so that by taking the Scriptures at once (especially as they do not yet comprehend their utterances), we may not interrupt the continuity of the discourse. But after pointing out the things indicated, proofs shall be shown in abundance to those who have believed. But if the assertions made by us appear to certain of the multitude to be different from the Scriptures of the Lord, let it be known that it is from that source that they have breath and life; and taking their rise from them, they profess to adduce the sense only, not the words. For further treatment, not being seasonable, will rightly appear superfluous. Thus, not to look at what is urgent would be excessively indolent and defective; and "blessed, in truth, are they who, investigating the testimonies of the Lord, shall seek Him with their whole heart."[1] And the law and the prophets witness of the Lord.
Clement Of Alexandria - The Instructor - Pedagogue
Clement of alexandria The Instructor - Pedagogue. departed, carrying away her heloved, Helen, to the folds of Ida, having found that menelaus was away from
http://www.piney.com/ChFathClPed3.html

Extractions: And outside they foolishly amuse themselves with impious playing, and amatory quavering , occupied with flute-playing Book III. Book III. Chapter I.-On the True Beauty. It is then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God, not by wearing gold or long robes, but by well-doing, and by requiring as few things as possible. Now, God alone is in need of nothing, and rejoices most when He sees us bright with the ornament of intelligence ; and then, too, rejoices in him who is arrayed in chastity, the sacred stole of the body. Since then the soul consists of three divisions; the intellect , which is called the reasoning faculty , is the inner man , which is the ruler of this man that is seen. And that one, in another respect, God guides. But the irascible part , being brutal, dwells near to insanity And appetite , which is the third department, is many-shaped above Proteus, the varying sea-god, who changed himself now into one shape, now into another; and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness, to seductions.
Ancient Lights Arising
A colossal Christian like cross covered the heart of alexandria in the form of2 streets. Canopus was named for menelaus' chief pilot on his return from Troy
http://www.mysteriesunsealed.com/articles/article_12.html

Extractions: There was a Temple of Poseidon on Alexandria's Pharos Island and at the Pharos Lighthouse summit was a statue of Poseidon. The Pharos was the 6th of the 7th Wonders of the Ancient World to vanish. The 7th, the pyramids of Giza, yet remain in slight excess of 6x6x6000 arc seconds from the north geographic pole. The Old Testament was translated into Greek at the foot of the Pharos. The biblical book of Revelation says 666 is the number of Satan (the "Light Bearer") - and man. "Linguistically, Pharos is the basis of all lighthouses...." [ahram.org.eg/2002/605/hr1.htm] The Pharos' mirrors were said to able to concentrate light into a beam so intense that it could set ships afire. The Pharos reached some 10 km. across the Mediterranean to guide ships into it's 2 harbors. Yet it paled in comparison to the magnetic radiance of the Library of Alexandria. Many of the greatest luminaries of the ancient world studied there. At the portal of the Mediterranean 'harbor' Sea are the Pillars of Hercules (6x6 degrees north latitude). Beyond these 'pillars' of the Gibraltar Strait, Plato placed the island of Atlantis in the "true ocean" - of time. 6.66 km. is the equal of Plato's Atlantis diameter (606.75' stadia). Poseidon, the earth shaker, ruled Atlantis at the time of it's submergence.
Jewish History -- Part Two
lineage. menelaus retains power by force (see 2 Macc.43250). 170/169Antiochusattacks Egypt but fails to conquer alexandria. On
http://www.westmont.edu/~fisk/Articles/jewhistb.htm

Extractions: Part Two Bruce N. Fisk (Back to Part One. Forward to Part Three 2.1. The Division of Alexander's Empire 323 Alexander dies in Babylon at age 32. Antigonus Babylon and North Syria Cassander West, i.e. Macedonia Ptolemy South Syria and Egypt Lysimachus Thrace and West Asia 2.2. The Ptolemaic Dynasty [323-198 BCE] 323-285 Ptolemy I Soter rules first as satrap of Egypt and then as king ( Dan 285-247 Ptolemy II Philadelphus 280 Two powerful families emerge to control the middle east: 1. Ptolemies: Egypt, Palestine, Phoenicia
Canopus.
miles to the northeastward from alexandria, Canopus died suddenly of snakebite andwas honored by a monument raised by his grateful master, menelaus, who with
http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/Canopus.html

Extractions: Fixed star: CANOPUS Constellation: Alpha Carina (Argo Navis Longitude 1900: Longitude 2000: Declination 1900: Declination 2000: Right ascension: Latitude: Spectral class: Magnitude: Suggested orb: 1 deg. approx. Planetary nature: Sat-Jup History of the star: A white binary star in the oars of the ship Argo, alpha Carina is the lucida star in the constellation of Argo , the Great Ship, and the second biggest star in the sky; after Sirius which it closely aligns with by longitude (Canopus is now 14Cancer57 and Sirius 14Cancer04, but they are separated by 36 degrees in ecliptic latitude). Canopus is not visible to anyone living above latitude 30 degrees north of the northern hemisphere. Allusions to Canopus in every age indicate that everywhere it was an important star, especially in the Desert where it was known as the "Ship Of The Desert". There it was a great favorite, giving rise to many of the proverbs of the Arabs, their stories and superstitions and supposed to impart the much prized color to their precious stones, and immunity from disease. It is a major navigational star and known as the "Lighthouse Of The Universe" and in a general way it served as a southern pole-star; a guiding star. It is used by NASA as a marker for setting space-flight coordinates. Spacecraft carry devices called 'Canopus star trackers'. Posidonius of Alexandria, about the middle of the 3rd century before Christ, utilized Canopus in his attempt to measure a degree on the earth's surface.
Argo Navis
Egypt, where, twelve miles to the northeastward from alexandria, Canopus was bittenby a serpent and died on the shore. In his honor, King menelaus named the
http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ArgoNavis.html

Extractions: Argo Navis The Ship Argo Greek alphabet In 1763 the French cartographer De Lacaille divided the larger constellation of Argo Navis into its constituent sections, Carina, Pupis, Pyx, and Vela. The separate influences, if any, of the divisions are not known. (Robson). Star R A Decl 1950 Lat Mag Sp Canopus alpha chi Avior epsilon Tureis iota Foramen eta 1.90 var P upsilon Miaplacidus beta omega Star R A Decl 1950 Lat Mag Sp nu tau pi L var K Azmidiske xi sigma rho Naos zeta Star R A Decl 1950 Lat Mag Sp gamma alpha beta Star R A Decl 1950 Lat Mag Sp Al Muhlif gamma 1.70 var ALSUHAIL lamda psi delta q Markeb kappa phi mu Notes and history: Argo Navis is a symbolic archetype of a great ship, which crosses the waters of the Deluge as in the Biblical tale of Noah's Arc. It lies entirely in the southern hemisphere, east of Canis Major, south of Monoceros and Hydra, largely in the Milky Way. It covers a great extent of the sky; nearly 75 degrees in length, teeming with masses of stars. Consequently, astronomers have divided Argo Navis into three smaller constellations; - Puppis, the Stern; Carina, the Keel; and Vela, Sail. Malus, the Mast, was a fourth constellation created of Argo Navis, but this has fallen into disuse. This constellation is still recognized by many astronomers as Argo Navis. [SLM p.64]. In ancient Egypt it was seen as the boat which carried Isis and Osiris over the deluge. And the Hindus said that it performed the same function for Isi and Iswara, they called it the ship

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