──────┬────────────────────────┬────────────────────── Date │ Spring Equinox. │ Summer Solstice. B.C. ├───────────┬────────────┼───────────┬───────── │ Rising. │ Setting. │ Rising. │ Setting. ──────┼───────────┼────────────┼───────────┼─────────── 5675 │ │ │ Phact │ │ │ │ │ 4600 │ Aldebaran │ │ Phact │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 3525 │α Phenicis│ Antares │ Phact │ │ │ + 2 │ │ │ Pleiades │ │ │ │ + 3 │ │ │ [3200]│ │ │ Sirius │ 2450 │ │ α Pavonis │ Sirius │ Altair │ │ │ + 3 │ ──────┴───────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────── ──────┬────────────────────────┬────────────────────── Date │ Autumnal Equinox. │ Winter Solstice. ├───────────┬────────────┼───────────┬───────── B.C. │ Rising. │ Setting. │ Rising. │ Setting. ──────┼───────────┼────────────┼───────────┼─────────── 5675 │ Vega. │ Canopus │α Phenicis │ β Muscæ │ - 1 │ │ │ 4600 │γ Draconis │ Capella │ │ │α Trianguli│ Canopus │ │ │ │ + 3 │ │ 3525 │ Antares │ Aldebaran │ │ │ - 1 │ + 2 │ │ │α Centauri │ │ │ │ + 3½ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 2450 │β Argus │ │ │ │ + 3 │ │ │ ──────┴───────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────── The real precedence of Capella and Spica in temple-building is not shown in the above table, because these stars were not used either at the solstices or the equinoxes. CHAPTER XXXI. THE HISTORY OF SUN-WORSHIP AT ANNU AND THEBES. Now that we have been able to discuss with more or less fulness the stars--very few in number--to which the temples in both Upper and Lower Egypt were probably oriented, and further, the astronomical requirements which they were intended to fulfil, we are in a position to consider several questions of great interest in relation to the earliest observations of the sun and stars. One of the first among these questions is whether the complete inquiry throws any light upon the suggestion made on page 85, that in different temples we seem to be dealing with at least two different kinds of astronomical thought and methods; as if, indeed, we were in presence of ideas so differently based that the assumption of different races of men, rather than different astronomical and religious ideas, is almost necessary to account for them.