The Roasting of Anakin Skywalker

WARNING: I think I'm on the right track with this post and the astro-mythology, but the details are time consuming to pin down and some of the finer points might be mangled.

In ancient Egypt, the Helical Rising of Sirius marked the start of their year. It heralded the flooding of the Nile and a new agricultural cycle. Sirius was the star of Isis, and heralded the return of the constellation Orion (Osiris) to the sky. In the Star Wars saga, Anakin Skywalker's "death" and resurrection as Darth Vader and subsequent re-birth as Luke's father parallels the Osiris cycle.

Anakin's defeat by Obi Wan is the dramatization of the roasting of Orion by the Sun in the summer. The following GIF was created using Stellarium. It shows Aquarius in the night sky (Obi Wan) preceding the rising of Orion, then "roasting" by the dawn light.

In Star Wars the young Obi Wan (who probably maps to John the Baptist/Aquarius) fights Anakin in a hellish landscape. The hellish landscape represents the entrance to the mythological Egyptian underworld called the duat. It was the world at or over the horizon, hence in Star Wars it is depicted as a fiery place. (cf the Lion King) Interestingly, the battle between Obi Wan and Anakin takes place in Mustafar and the Lion King's name is Mufasa which are apparently bastardizations of the name Mustafa which mean "the chosen one" in Arabic. (cf Neo in The Matrix)

Aquarius/Obi Wan beseeches Anakin to give up because he has the "higher ground". (See the GIF above which shows Aquarius in the higher position overnight.)

Aquarius/Obi Wan defeats Anakin by cutting his legs off and leaving him to cook. The cooking and fire represent the sun. Anakin is torn to pieces the same way the stars of Orion fade bit by bit in the morning light.

Once he's recovered by the Emperor, Anakin subsequently becomes entombed in a perfectly fitting sarcophagus and rules as Lord of the Dead. The Empire in the movies is possibly the duat. It's an entirely material fake place, even the people are manufactured. (cf The Lord of the Rings, or Bladerunner)

Meanwhile, Obi Wan Kenobi goes on to help the Rebel Alliance before he re-encounters Darth Vader who chops his head off. There are parallels with the Game of Thrones between Obi Wan/Vader and Eddard Stark/Jon Snow. I'll get into those in a future post.