I suppose that this will be a quick little post, as what I have to briefly present here, I found only two or so days ago. It all came from a little hunch as I remembered that through whatever means, that little companion star to our Sun, or "Helios -- Ἥλιος" got afforded an impoverished title of "Nemesis -- Νέμεσις". I thought to myself that choice of moniker was somewhat strange. Contemporary knowledge of ancient dialects of Greek or Latin is largely lost to us, within our modern lifestyles, as almost nearly no one has a working understanding of those languages. The fundamental mappings of interrelations and meaning through one's use, as being exemplified by a common culture, is roughly at least a thousand years disparate from the last wide-spread utility of those languages to transmit knowledge. To offer an example, I'll offer a brief image of some iconography of Helios, the Sun, being used in the ancient past.
(1) "Relief showing Helios, sun god in the Greco-Roman mythology. From the North-West pediment of the temple of Athena in Ilion (Troy). Between the first quarter of the 3rd century BC and 390 BC. Marble, 85,8 x 86,3 cm. Found during the excavations lead by Heinrich Schliemann in 1872, now in the Pergamon-Museum in Berlin, Germany."
Helios, being personified into a graphical representation, bearing emblazon of rays radiating from its head, or stylistically from his gaze. It is also not without affinity to a set of horses, or a chariot, indicating swift movement, and within both motifs, its presentation affords astronomical significance, relating to the Sun itself, especially as it races across the sky on a daily basis, to at least our perception, as being a consequence of Earth's axial rotation.
This own interpretation of mine regarding a visual example of a presentation of Helios might be rather off point, since I'm eventually getting to what I want to say regarding the companion star called Nemesis. However, this interpretive effort will become rather stark at the end.
Even if we might use a term from the ancient past to denote something, our understanding of it might be completely different. Consider the term nemesis in a contemporary setting. We have no outright use for it in a mythological, or religious approach, and any common use of it should otherwise be scarce to find. The closest thing that I can immediately think of, is within a narrative setting, using nemesis itself to placard an antagonist through some innovative quip, phrase, or reference in a text, as opposed to the ordinal protagonist. The usual nouns that would come to at least my mind, are: "enemy", "foe", and "rival".
So I took to look for when this name was attached to the companion star. It seems that there was no use of it before some posing on March 11th, 2010, and it seems to have subsequently caught on, as evident in the session transcripts from June 21st, 2014, and March 25th, 2017.
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From The Universe: Nemesis, The Sun's Evil Twin:
"Nicknamed "Nemesis" or "The Death Star," this undetected object could be a red or brown dwarf star, or an even darker presence several times the mass of Jupiter."
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From Session June 21, 2014:
"(Pierre) We asked that question about the size of Nemesis, and it was 0.56 the mass of the sun."
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From Session March 25, 2017:
"Q: (Pierre) Nemesis.
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Q: (L) In other words, by any other name...
(Pierre) Yeah, well, we can call it Nemesis. The sun's companion. "
I'm not aware of other manifestations, so lets go over to
Wikipedia to see what we can get as a first pass, of sorts.
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Etymology
"The name Nemesis is derived from the Greek word νέμειν, némein, meaning "to give what is due",[2] from Proto-Indo-European *nem- "distribute".[3]"
Family
"According to Hesiod's Theogony, Nemesis was one of the children of Nyx alone.
[4] Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus,[citation needed] but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother.
[5] In several traditions, Nemesis was seen as the mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus, adopted and raised by Leda and Tyndareus.[
6] According to the Byzantine poet Tzetzes, Bacchylides had Nemesis as the mother of the Telchines by Tartarus.
[7]"
Mythology: Fortune and Retribution:
"The word nemesis originally meant the distributor of fortune, neither good nor bad, simply in due proportion to each according to what was deserved.[citation needed] Later, Nemesis came to suggest the resentment caused by any disturbance of this right proportion, the sense of justice that could not allow it to pass unpunished.[citation needed]
O. Gruppe (1906) and others connect the name with "to feel just resentment". From the fourth century onward, Nemesis, as the just balancer of Fortune's chance, could be associated with Tyche.
Divine retribution is a major theme in the Greek world view, providing the unifying theme of the tragedies of Sophocles and many other literary works.
[8] Hesiod states: "Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death" (Theogony, 223, though perhaps an interpolated line). Nemesis appears in a still more concrete form in a fragment of the epic Cypria."
Going over
Poesia Latina's compendiums of collected Greek works yields similar semantics (even though I could not for the life of me work out how to access the denoted references -- they are probably listed somewhere on that site, even though the references are passed over in plain language).
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In Greek:
"[157] Νεμεσητικός: ὁ ἐναντίος τῷ φθονερῷ. ὁ μὲν γὰρ φθονερὸς λυπεῖται ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν καλῶν εὐπραγίαις, ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ φθόνος τοιοῦτον, νεμεσητικὸς δὲ ὁ λυπούμενος ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν κακῶν εὐπραγίαις· τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἡ νέμεσις. ὥστε ὁ νεμεσητικὸς οὐ φθονερός. ἔστι δὲ τὸ πρόβλημα ὁρικόν. ζήλῳ ῥητόρων τοῦτο λέγει· ὁριζομένου γάρ τινος φθονερὸν εἶναι καὶ τὸν λεγόμενον νεμεσητικόν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς μέμφεταί τινας, ἀνθοριζόμεθα, οὐ τὸν νεμεσητικὸν τοιοῦτον εἶναι, εἴπερ ὀρθῶς τινας μέμφεται, ἀλλὰ τὸν μὴ δέοντα μεμφόμενον· αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστι φθονερός.
[162] Νέμεσις: ἡ δίκη. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἰὼ Νέμεσι, βαρύβρομοί τε βρονταί.
[163] Νέμεσις: μέμψις, δίκη, ὕβρις, φθόνος, τύχη. τὴν τῶν ἀλαζόνων τιμωρὸν συνέντες Νέμεσιν, ἥπερ αὐτοὺς μετῆλθε σὺν τῇ δίκῃ. καὶ αὖθις· οὐκ ἔλαθε τὴν ἅπασιν ἐναντιουμένην τοῖς ὑπερηφάνοις Νέμεσιν, ἀλλ' ἐν ταῖς ἰδίαις ἠναγκάσθη παιδευθῆναι συμφοραῖς. παρῆν δ' ἡ Νέμεσις, ἣ τὰ γῆς ἐποπτεύει· ἢ καὶ ἄλλως, ἣ τἄδικ' ἐποπτεύει. Βάβριός φησιν ἐν Μυθικοῖς. καὶ Αἰλιανός· Νεμέσεως ἐφόρου, τρόπους ὑπερόπτας καὶ ὑπερηφάνους κολαζούσης, ἐναργῆ μαρτύρια. καὶ παροιμία· Νέμεσις δέ γε πὰρ πόδας βαίνει· παρόσον μέτεισι ταχέως ἡ δαίμων τοὺς ἡμαρτηκότας. λήθουσα δὲ πὰρ πόδας βαίνεις, γαυρούμενον αὐχένα κλίνεις, ὑπὸ πῆχυν ἀεὶ βιοτὰν κρατεῖς."
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Machine translated into English:
"[157] Nemesistic: the opposite of the envious. For the envious man grieves over the good deeds of good people, and envy is also such, but the nemesistic is the one who grieves over the good deeds of bad people; for such is nemesis. So the nemesistic is not envious. But the problem is finite. He says this with the zeal of rhetoricians: for a certain one is envious of someone and the so-called nemesis, because he also reproaches someone, we conclude that it is not the nemesis of this kind, because he rightly reproaches someone, but the one who is unduly reproached; for he is envious.
[162] Nemesis: the trial. Aristophanes: O Nemesis, the thunders are heavy.
[163] Nemesis: scorn, trial, envy, luck. Nemesis, who punished the arrogant, after whom she shared the trial. And now she did not receive the apasis against the proud Nemesis, but in the same she was forced to be taught by troubles. Nemesis is present, who watches over the lands; or else, who watches over the unjust. Vabrius tells in Myths. And Aelianus, the ephor of Nemesis, who punishes the arrogant and the proud, a slow martyrdom. and a proverb: Nemesis walks on foot; for the devil quickly devours sinners. But forgetting, you walk on foot, you lean on the anchored anchor, you hold eternal life under your arm."
And simply whisking over my own copy of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon's yielded similar results. (4)
"nemesis: just or deserved indignation, anger at anything unjust, righteous resentment; indignation at undeserved good fortune: jealousy, vengeance, especially of the gods, of men: grudging, envy; that which causes or deserves just indignation, the object of just resentment; in one's own person, a sense of sin, remorse.
Nemesis: personified as the goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune."
From all of that looking, I was slightly befuddled. Clearly there is a common motif of nemesis as being the guarantor of a form of justice, a justice well due to those who have earned it, and also a form of justice that is beyond, or outside the scope of human ideas and implementations of their own forms of justice. This motif is only expounded when nemesis is embodied, or personified into the form of Nemesis, being the Goddess of that same noun. So then what would be its implication in the form of contemporary use? ....
And then I noticed that Albrecht Durer did indeed pain through the process of making a copper engraving, printed circa 1502, of a novelty... That novelty being Nemesis herself
(5). Seeing that I have not noticed Albrecht Durer, and Nemesis being connected in any form whatsoever on the innumerable forum threads, I'll use this opportunity to present it. : ) [I've scaled the images down to a reasonable level. The originals can be viewed at their respective links below]
(5) "Nemesis. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Copper Engraving | Print. circa 1502. height: 332 mm (13.07 in); width: 232 mm (9.13 in). Nuremburg."
So what exactly do we have depicted on this print? I'll use the same interpretive method as I gave example with the Helios iconography. You see the beauty of Nemesis in the foreground, standing upon a three dimensional sphere. The shadows lain from her figure denote its three dimensional nature, as opposed to just being a plain two dimensional circle, devoid of shadow. The sphere also has no emblazon of radiance, as opposed to Helios -- signifying it's non-luminous nature. Nemesis is depicted as being partly nude, and her figure is tangential to the viewer. Her side facing the viewer is without garb, yet the her opposite side is shrouded. This could mean that she initially is seen as purely nude, yet to a cautious viewer, she is not without a garment of sorts... a garment, or shroud that does flail beside her along an indication of movement. The attribution of wings to her personification indicate a celestial nature. In her left hand, she holds what seems to be a horse harness, indicating that she is either just coming from a journey, or about to set off on one; taken with both possibilities of meaning, and Nemesis would then be on a constant, never-ending journey. In her right hand, she holds what seems to be goblet of some sorts. The position of her right hand is in that of extension, or in the Latin: 'ab corpus', and thus what she holds in the right is as an offering to another person. Her casual smirk would also indicate that this offering could be bittersweet. This silverware is unusual, in that it seems to depict some natural process -- akin to a plant sprouting, and eventually forming some edible fruit -- but this fruit is unusually large for the stem of that plant, and with all things unusual, it must be metaphorical, indicating that this goblet/fruit thing, is quite the gift to obtain from Nemesis herself.
Looking at the background now, we have a typical depiction of third dimensional life on the surface of the planet (at least how it was when this engraving was made). Mountains, trees, rivers, and a whole host of human development and activity. Since there seems to be no apparent tumult or discord engraved, the approaching front of that "wave" is thus not apparent to the life that it's completely enveloping from above. The "negative" impression of motion is also recorded in the "fabric" of this wave, with its V, or U presentation straight down the middle. Also note the darkness underlying this fabric -- it should be taken metaphorically. Since the aforementioned sphere is "riding" on this wave of fabric, along with everything so mentioned about Nemesis and her presentation, what can be said of Nemesis, and the companion dark star that she represents, is that she, or it, acts as a harbinger of what is coming .... or rather currently ongoing. The presentation of this wave of fabric is also strange. Ordinarily we should expect to see a massive wave of tidal water, or a massive fog bank, or a fluffy envelopment of clouds to overtake a landscape. But this is not the case here. Hmm, an undisclosed wave of fabric, too regular, yet too strange to be something that is already depicted within natural phenomena. It's also even more curious that the wave of fabric is not etched after a certain progression -- there's no folds, creases, or even detail to denote what it actually is, aside from the immediate effects of its "event horizon" on all the denizens it enshrouds. Is its bare, white tapestry, the subject of pure possibility? Perhaps its designed to tell the viewer nothing, as the fabric itself is a tapestry of a different reality, potentially amounting to that fourth density reality that will eventually befall this planet, as it oscillates from its third density existence of about 300,000 years, into a fourth density existence of another 300,000 years... and thus a third density soul, or perspective, simply cannot imagine it.
Considering what was already said about the sun's dark companion star, in various sessions, I would think it best to use what's already on this session thread to tie in the significance of nemesis, especially with Albrecht Durer's Nemesis (1502), as opposed to putting it somewhere else, on related threads or sessions. The other sessions include metrics and estimates, yet this one here seems to be without most of those things, along with presenting enough "suggestions" that fit right alongside Durer's Nemesis.
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From This Session August 3, 1996:
"Q: (L) It is not the Oort cloud or the comets that is going to cause all this terror and carrying on, it is going to be the seeing of the illuminated brown star, which will go away, and then no one will see what is coming! And this IS talked about in both the Bible and Nostradamus - but it was incomprehensible before! Okay, how long will it take the comets to get from the Oort cloud to here?
A: Let us just say that the cluster travels much faster than the usual cometary itinerary.
Q: (T) And this is because they are traveling in the wake of a large sun sized gravity well...
A: And we have spoken of the comet cluster before, and we have told you that this time, it rides the Wave.
Q: (L) Is the wave the energy from this brown star?
A: No.
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Q: (L) Okay, now... (T) Well, the wave is a form of energy. (L) Yes, they once told us that it was "hyper-kinetic sensate."
A: Realm border, this is your quantum factor, Laura, so plug it into "Noah" accordingly, and check out the results."
Of course, my own interpretative efforts are just that -- interpretations. I'm pretty sure 1,001 or more different interpretations of this engraving could be had.
However the symbology presented in Durer's work is extremely uncanny, from work done more than 500 years ago. Did he receive prophetic inspiration through a dream, enough to shock him out of a state of malaise to produce this piece of art? Did he receive patronage, whose records or indications have been lost to time, or simply never recorded? Was he part of some secretive group that was encoding things through writing and art, to give to future generations as inheritance? Is there more to such questions that could give truthful insight? I suppose from everything that everyone on this forum has already seen, considered and discussed.... I would put my money on all of the above!
Anyways, thanks for reading.
References
(1) Helios Relief. Hisarlik, Turkey. Wikipedia. Uploaded May 11th, 2011.
Helios - Wikipedia
(2) Nemesis. Wikipedia.
Nemesis - Wikipedia
(3) Poesia Latina.
http://www.poesialatina.it/_ns/greek/testi/Suda/Lexicon.html
(4) Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Simon Wallenberg Press. Reprint: (2007). United States. ISBN: 1-84356-026-7. Clarendon Press. (1909). Oxford.
(5) Nemesis. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Copper Engraving | Print. circa 1502. height: 332 mm (13.07 in); width: 232 mm (9.13 in). Nuremburg.
File:ADurerFortunaengraving.jpg - Wikipedia
Selected Notes -- Wikipedia
[1] Suda, rho, 33
http://www.poesialatina.it/_ns/greek/testi/Suda/Lexicon.html
[2] "Nemesis – Origin and history of nemesis by Online Etymology Dictionary".
Etymology of "nemesis" by etymonline
[3] R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, pp. 1005–06.
[4] Hesiod, Theogony 223.
Hesiod, Theogony, line 207
[5] Stasinus of Cyprus or Hegesias of Aegina, Cypria Fragment 8.
Hesiod ; The Homeric hymns ; And Homerica : Hesiod : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[6] Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.33.7–8.
Pausanias, Description of Greece, <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=tgn,7002681&n=1&type=place">Attica</a>, chapter 33, section 8
[7] Gantz, p. 149; Bacchylides fr. 52 Campbell, pp. 298, 299 [= Tzetzes on Hesiod's Theogony 80–6 (Matranga, p. 580)].
Fragments and
Anecdota graeca e mss. bibliothecis Vaticana, Angelica, Barberiniana
[8] Examples of Nemesis in Literature, 19 August 2013, retrieved October 12, 2013.
Nemesis - Examples and Definition of Nemesis
cassiopaea.org
