Rumen Kolev Has Found Arabic Manuscripts by Hermes in Egypt!

Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

Hello everyone,

After the publication of his book the Babylonian Astrolabe in 2013, Rumen Kolev has again made astrological history.

He went to Egypt this year in search of the "lost books of Hermes", as he calls them. He found some of them. They are in manuscripts in the libraries, in Arabic.

That is amazing news that should be known far and wide by the astrological community, especially by those who practise any form of Ancient Western Astrology.

Just like Valens went to Egypt in search of knowledge and eventually was able to get it, 1,800 years later history is repeating itself. Smile

I sincerely hope that these manuscripts will, if not reveal secrets, then elaborate on some of the key and complex astrological areas.
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Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

Hi everyone,

Rumen Kolev has released a free video about his findings of the "lost books of Hermes" in Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O95s0L6rEeU&t=138s

Highly recommended for anyone interested in Ancient Astrology. As Rumen says, there is information which is not present in any other author.
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Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

Hello again,

Rumen Kolev has released a second video on the "lost books of Hermes":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJrkZiYBl4s&feature=youtu.be
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Paul · Administrator Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 1535

Zagata

Has he published anything anywhere in print? I struggle to follow these kinds of things in a youtube video
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Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

Hi Paul,

Are you asking about "the lost books of Hermes", or in general?

If about the former, not yet, because he is still in Egypt and has not begun translating.

If about the latter, Rumen has translated works of Hermes (On the Fixed Stars), Luca Gaurico, Regiomontanus, etc. They are available also in English. He always publishes the original source text on the next page, so readers can view his translation as well as the Latin or Greek text.
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Paul · Administrator Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 1535

Thanks Zagata

I meant specifically the "lost books", I wasn't sure if the youtube videos were to promote a new book for example. If not, I'll try to just sit down and watch them.

Thanks for bringing it to people's attention.
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Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

The youtube videos are meant to inform people interested in Ancient Astrology about Rumen's project for locating "the lost books of Hermes" as he calls it.

I have watched both videos. If you are short on time, I suggest the first one. The second one is way more technical, and he also translates from Arabic there.
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waybread · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 960 Location: Canada

Zagata, have you got a c.v. for Rumen Kolev? I'm just curious, what his is education? Especially such that he could translate Arabic, presumably a medieval form. I've looked at his web site, and I haven't been able to learn much about his educational and employment background.

Zagata · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 91

Hi waybread,

This link has Rumen's biography, though it is written some years ago (in Bulgarian) and does not include his taking private lessons in ancient languages.

http://bialobratstvo.info/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%B1%D1%80-1-51/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F-%D0%BC%D0%B5-%D0%B2%D0%B8-%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2

I don't have time now to translate it now though.
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Therese Hamilton · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 1512 Location: California, USA

Zatata, could you perhaps translate only the first paragraph for us? I could make out Rumen's birth date and also "PHD" and UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles).
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waybread · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 960 Location: Canada

Too bad, I don't read the Cyrillic alphabet, let alone Bulgarian.

Konrad · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 685

Therese Hamilton · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 1512 Location: California, USA

Konrad wrote:

waybread · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 960 Location: Canada

Thanks for the translation!

Konrad, you probably won't like my explanation of why I ask. However, the reason is because independent scholars who lack serious credentials in their field of study might be geniuses who come up with brilliant insights backed by a Mack Truck of scholarship. Or, they might be off the deep end. (Quacks, for short.) You find the latter across the spectrum of subjects.

Ancient cultural astronomy seems to attract its share of spurious scholarship, unfortunately-- stuff like ancient astronauts, planet Nibiru, and Zechariah Stichin. Or the old theosophists on ancient Egypt. Basically Kolev seems to be self-taught in his field of ancient astrology.

Academics have their flaws, Lord knows, but they do have a system of peer review, so that the rest of us can get some sense of whether a publication is well received by experts in the field. I've come across Kolev's name in the history of astrology, but by page 4 in a Google search on him, I'd not come across any reviews of his work, beyond amazon. I see that his book on the Babylonian astrolabe (2013) was published by an imprint of the Pennsylvania State University Press, so that speaks well of his scholarship. I can look him up on my former university library's data base and see if or how it was reviewed.

Just because we can't believe everything we read.....

Therese Hamilton · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 1512 Location: California, USA

Good thoughts in your post, Waybread! The edition I have of Kolev's The Babylonian Astrolabe was published by The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki in association with the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research (2013). This book is beautifully done with numerous complex illustrations, graphs and diagrams. Worth every cent of the cost. "State Archives of Assyria Studies, Volume XXII" is on the cover.

One of the enjoyable reasons for studying this book are the numerous back-and-forth arguments among academic professionals that Kolev describes. It's a good object lesson for astrologers who are morbidly afraid of discussing theoretical and practical differences in their craft in the interests of avoiding arguments. "Lets just all get along" (or the related "This is the way I see it, we're all good") are death to research and discovery, and the reason genuine astrological knowledge is still in the back woods. Unfortunately this attitude tends to be most prevalent among those with little or no academic training.
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