"Hamlet's mill; an essay on myth and the frame of time", 1969, Page 44.
These are the final words spoken by Kay Khosrow, a legendary king of Iran at the end of Shahnameh, The Iranian Book of Kings:
This basically means "in Aries" (between Pisces and Taurus)...
The author of the Hamlet's mill then goes to say:
The author of the Hamlet's mill then goes on to say that Kay Khosrow is not an earthly king, but a heavenly king, and then he says:
I would like to disagree with the bit that "no fertility or seasonal symbolism can be traced into it". Actually we can, if we assume that originally zodiac was a collection of calendar markers derived from fixed, annual events...As I explained in my article "Zodiac"...
This removes the problem of "heaven keeps moving" and fixes Aries into Mar/Apr.
I talked about this in my posts "April" and "Aries must die"...
Another thing that happens in Western Iran in Aries is this: The river discharges suddenly start to increase, as a result of spring rains and snowmelt.
Hence Ram depicted lying in water from the "Zodiac from Isfahan". I talked about it in my post "Sagittarius from Isfahan"...
Which is why, I think, on this late 6th or early 7th c. AD Sasanian silver bowl, we see a king (Kay Khosrow) sitting on a ram (Aries?) throne, feasting, surrounded by musicians and servants.
Which is what I proposed in my post "Eyeballs platter"...Except when I wrote that post, I didn't now the identity of the King...
Sooooo....See Aries as constellation, and "no fertility or seasonal symbolism can be traced into it". See Aries as animal calendar marker and it all suddenly starts making sense...
