First let me make sure, in the era of NASA, that everybody knows what Sun, Earth, Venus and Moon are. Because everything i found is not near good enough for all to understand so i can't just link to something already made.
Sun is a true star, not like Venus which is called morning or evening star (because it appears as a star but is actually an illuminated planet, at a distance much closer than real stars).It is made of hydrogen and helium and undergoes a continuous fusion reaction which slowly turns hydrogen into helium (yes, transmutation), over billions of years. It is very hot inside, cooler at the surface again hotter at the corona and it radiates light and other forms of radiations which are luckily caught by Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere before they can reach us.
It is very large when compared to Earth or Moon but it appears roughly at the same diameter with Moon because of the distance of course. For comparison, it takes light about 8 minutes to reach us from Sun and about one second from Moon. 2 to 14 minutes from Venus because it evolves, like Earth, around the Sun.Yes, if you would say hello on a radio, a guy on Moon will hear it after one second and on Venus after between 2 and 14 minutes, depending on the position of the two planets on their orbits around Sun at that time.
While Sun (and giant planets like Jupiter) is made of gas, the 4 inner planets (with orbits around Sun closer than Mars) are balls of rock, some completely solidified, like Moon, some still melted inside, like Earth.
We could say Moon is in our backyard, being the closest planet to Earth and the only one to orbit around it. At 1/6 the mass of Earth, i think we should call it a companion planet rather than a (natural) satellite because Earth and Moon rather wobble against each other, Earth being attracted by the Moon as well (a little).
Here is an intuitive model of the sizes of the planets. if Sun was an orange, Earth would be a grain of mustard and Moon a grain of poppy. Yes i was very shocked when i first heard about this model, in grade school and ever since when i look at the sky and see one of them planets i try to adjust my perception with it.
And now let's get down to 
Here is a video showing the phases of the Moon. A phase of the Moon is what we see of it. The area of the planet illuminated by Sun in different days of a lunar cycle (or 29.5 days) that is.In the video Sun does not appear at all, being at such enormous distance (on the left) when compared to distance between Earth and Moon. The distance between Earth and Moon is shown much smaller compared to their sizes, so they can fit in the video. If you really want, here is a more realistic (nominal) representation of the sizes of the two planets and distance between them.
While Earth orbits around the Sun too, the video simplifies that (or it uses a reference system intrinsic to Earth). It does not take into account the point on Earth where an observer is located.
A beginner astronomer by looking at the video will start asking why we don't have a Sun eclipse every month (29.5 days cycle) and that is because the orbital plan of Moon around Earth is tilted within 5 degree vs the orbital plan of Earth around Sun. Which means the shadow of the Moon misses Earth most of the times at new moon (dark disk, sun in the back, invisibile during daytime) by a few degrees.
The model is good only to explain illumination of Earth (day and night) and Moon at different times of the 29.5 days cycle and its apparent "phases" which basically are the differences in illuminated areas from one night to another.A beginner astronomer by looking at the video will start asking why we don't have a Sun eclipse every month (29.5 days cycle) and that is because the orbital plan of Moon around Earth is tilted within 5 degree vs the orbital plan of Earth around Sun. Which means the shadow of the Moon misses Earth most of the times at new moon (dark disk, sun in the back, invisibile during daytime) by a few degrees.
The Moon rotates around itself only once during the "month cycle" showing always the same face to Earth. We call that "orbital lock" that was achieved over eons due to gravity interactions of the two.
All of the above is straight forward. But let's now see a video that shows phases of Venus. In this video Sun is also shown at a much closer distance to the two planets compared to diameters.
Venus passes between Sun and Earth every 584 days but a true visible transit which is the equivalent of a solar eclipse (by the Moon) happens on average every 80 years also due to tilting of the orbital plan of Earth and Venus and then all you can see is a small dot due to difference in sizes between Sun and Venus (which is the size of Earth) like shown in the orange model above and also distances.
In the following video everything is exaggerated one way or another, just to make them all fit in the frame. But the way we see Venus (like through binoculars or a small telescope) is real. It takes more than an (Earth) year for a full cycle. But what's important is the greater cycle or when Earth and Venus get in the same position after 8 years. Or the number of "rays" in the star of Ishtar. Or degrees in Scientology.
Moon rotating around Earth is not shown at all, to simplify the model.
It appears Sumerians, way before Romans had a way of counting the days and years without using the Moon, all based on Venus phases, thus having a precise way to calculate day of the year, most importantly, time for sowing. Of course they were using tallies, but they needed a reference and a reliable backup (what if the priest got drunk and forgot to mark one or two or ten days in a year).
Today in the era of GPS we are all taking the calculation of time and date for granted, but back then it was a big deal.
And they of course were grateful to the star for that and had temples and priests that could watch Ishtar who was Innana in the beginning and its phases. And yes, a small number of people with good eyesight can see the phases, especially the crescents, with the naked eye.
I bet those were the first privileged ones. The seers. Who could see what others could not.
While Romans in the beginning, other people in Far East for example used (and some still use) a Moon calendar, which is awkward at least to say, because Moon cycle is not even an even number of days, and there are more than 12x29.5 days in a year, constantly needing correction, or the year starting always in a different season, Romans started to use what we currently use or an Earth calendar, based on an Earth cycle around the Sun, the "months" having slightly different number of days, greater than 29.5, for constant corrections, to make it both for the tradition of a Moon calendar and still have 12 months in a full real year.
But it does not have anything to do with the Moon anymore, except for the word "month". Wondering if it didn't have to do with Romans adopting Venus as well.
Today in the era of GPS we are all taking the calculation of time and date for granted, but back then it was a big deal.
And they of course were grateful to the star for that and had temples and priests that could watch Ishtar who was Innana in the beginning and its phases. And yes, a small number of people with good eyesight can see the phases, especially the crescents, with the naked eye.
I bet those were the first privileged ones. The seers. Who could see what others could not.
While Romans in the beginning, other people in Far East for example used (and some still use) a Moon calendar, which is awkward at least to say, because Moon cycle is not even an even number of days, and there are more than 12x29.5 days in a year, constantly needing correction, or the year starting always in a different season, Romans started to use what we currently use or an Earth calendar, based on an Earth cycle around the Sun, the "months" having slightly different number of days, greater than 29.5, for constant corrections, to make it both for the tradition of a Moon calendar and still have 12 months in a full real year.
But it does not have anything to do with the Moon anymore, except for the word "month". Wondering if it didn't have to do with Romans adopting Venus as well.
Actually i think more people than realize can see Venus phases. Most never looked and many don't even know what to look for. But if you look at the western evening sky right after Sunset you can see the brightest object there and some would have, like me, a feeling that something is not right, because what you see is not round but has corners (yes i need glasses, 1.25 for the computer monitor but can still see well in the distance).
I once even took a picture of it with my Kodak held still on the dashboard with optical zoom at max and very long exposure time (by trials) and if you zoom into that you can see the phase..,
Tonight in Portland Venus is setting at around 9 PM, depending on the terrain. About ten more minutes. Here are some screenshots with the marvelous software called Stellarium. It amazes me every time, the way it can show, calculate and predict the movements of stars and planets.
Venus is now at the left of the Sun as seen from Earth and is getting close to a crescent phase, pretty much like when i took that picture linked above. The bright side of course indicates the direction of Sun illumination. This repeats every 584 days or 5 times during 8 years.
The fact that Earth meets Venus (almost) exactly five times during a 8 years complete cycle gave birth to the famous geometric pattern called "pentastar". The coincidence with the starfish being able to regenerate any limb and sometimes grow back from one single "ray" gave birth to the the myth that the pattern is a symbol of rebirth or regeneration. Immortality. The other gold alchemy is searching for.
Some went further and created a curve that is drawn by a point in the middle of a line in motion that unite Earth and Venus and that curve suggests a western wild rose. Rose within a circle with two perpendicular axis could indeed have given birth to the symbol of what they call Rosicrucianism.
Pentastar is a symbol used by daVinci during Renaissance that makes us all question if they knew about the phases of Venus before first modern observations of Venus, during 17 century or even before daVinci. And that is easy to explain, they could have found the Roman manuscripts about it. Or Sumerian clay tablets, maybe.
Could Rosicrucians have seen the western wild rose as a sign and they all moved there? That and the California gold rush of 1948 gave them the means and motivation to take over a young, developing nation through its banking system. (is that gold in the middle of the alchemic rose? ...)
As for the superior race. The Sumerians developed the first known slave based agricultural society. They could have come from somewhere else, and enslaving local population.
They are really pissed with the Jews because Jews are some of the remaining relatives of the "semitic people" that in the end drew them out of Sumer, making them settle in areas as far of Japan or Middle and Northern Europe. Proof? Sumo wrestling. To this day Hungarian word for (Christian) God is Isten (pronounced Ishten).
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner aka Sting. White on black. Starting with the smoke that may represent gassing, turned into a war drum. First 100 seconds of this song is an angry charade, after, he uses the word "em-brace" and finally "baby", giving a (false retro) key to the charade, switching from war to love by the bullying principle "first cut is the deepest" (or how i personally feel about this song).
As for the gold of California. For some reason i can't explain i always had a weird feeling about this. How come the indigenous were not mining it or knew about. How come it ended, abruptly with no trace of it in our days.
And i have a couple of hypothesis in mind.
The gold was created by Rosicrucian alchemists from some secret ingredients found around the mountains of California, especially Mt.Shasta. Then when they had enough they "broke the mold" or destroyed the recipe or the labs so it will not loose value.
The gold was secretly brought in from Asia (pretending it was created by Rosicrucians). Pretty much like they do nowadays with merchandise from China on Amazon or cars from Japan. Then the gold was invested into banking, giving the investors an early control of the banking system in the US.
US has 39 trillion dollars in debt. How come they don't start mining these instead of paying trillions a year in principal and interests by depleting the budget, stealing from Medicare?
I once even took a picture of it with my Kodak held still on the dashboard with optical zoom at max and very long exposure time (by trials) and if you zoom into that you can see the phase..,
Tonight in Portland Venus is setting at around 9 PM, depending on the terrain. About ten more minutes. Here are some screenshots with the marvelous software called Stellarium. It amazes me every time, the way it can show, calculate and predict the movements of stars and planets.
Venus is now at the left of the Sun as seen from Earth and is getting close to a crescent phase, pretty much like when i took that picture linked above. The bright side of course indicates the direction of Sun illumination. This repeats every 584 days or 5 times during 8 years.
The fact that Earth meets Venus (almost) exactly five times during a 8 years complete cycle gave birth to the famous geometric pattern called "pentastar". The coincidence with the starfish being able to regenerate any limb and sometimes grow back from one single "ray" gave birth to the the myth that the pattern is a symbol of rebirth or regeneration. Immortality. The other gold alchemy is searching for.
Some went further and created a curve that is drawn by a point in the middle of a line in motion that unite Earth and Venus and that curve suggests a western wild rose. Rose within a circle with two perpendicular axis could indeed have given birth to the symbol of what they call Rosicrucianism.
Pentastar is a symbol used by daVinci during Renaissance that makes us all question if they knew about the phases of Venus before first modern observations of Venus, during 17 century or even before daVinci. And that is easy to explain, they could have found the Roman manuscripts about it. Or Sumerian clay tablets, maybe.
Could Rosicrucians have seen the western wild rose as a sign and they all moved there? That and the California gold rush of 1948 gave them the means and motivation to take over a young, developing nation through its banking system. (is that gold in the middle of the alchemic rose? ...)
As for the superior race. The Sumerians developed the first known slave based agricultural society. They could have come from somewhere else, and enslaving local population.
They are really pissed with the Jews because Jews are some of the remaining relatives of the "semitic people" that in the end drew them out of Sumer, making them settle in areas as far of Japan or Middle and Northern Europe. Proof? Sumo wrestling. To this day Hungarian word for (Christian) God is Isten (pronounced Ishten).
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner aka Sting. White on black. Starting with the smoke that may represent gassing, turned into a war drum. First 100 seconds of this song is an angry charade, after, he uses the word "em-brace" and finally "baby", giving a (false retro) key to the charade, switching from war to love by the bullying principle "first cut is the deepest" (or how i personally feel about this song).
As for the gold of California. For some reason i can't explain i always had a weird feeling about this. How come the indigenous were not mining it or knew about. How come it ended, abruptly with no trace of it in our days.
And i have a couple of hypothesis in mind.
The gold was created by Rosicrucian alchemists from some secret ingredients found around the mountains of California, especially Mt.Shasta. Then when they had enough they "broke the mold" or destroyed the recipe or the labs so it will not loose value.
The gold was secretly brought in from Asia (pretending it was created by Rosicrucians). Pretty much like they do nowadays with merchandise from China on Amazon or cars from Japan. Then the gold was invested into banking, giving the investors an early control of the banking system in the US.
US has 39 trillion dollars in debt. How come they don't start mining these instead of paying trillions a year in principal and interests by depleting the budget, stealing from Medicare?
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