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The Mayans had a sophisticated calendar, losing only one day in 6000 years.
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The perimeter of the Great Pyramid at Giza is approximately 3,023 feet and the height is 481 feet. In addition to exemplifying a ratio of exactly 2p, its measurements are said to possibly represent the Northern Hemisphere of the earth, on a scale of 1 : 43,200. Though controversial, some interpret this number as exactly 20 times the precessional number of 2160, representing the precession of the earth through 20 different zodiac constellations or ‘ages.’
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Mayan site of Chichen Itza exemplifies the culture’s celestial orientation. The huge step pyramid (the pyramid of Kukulcan) that is the focus of the site has 91 steps on each of its sides, which add up to 364 steps. Adding the platform on top, there are 365 steps in total — the number of days in a year.
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due to precession, every 2160 years on the vernal equinox the sun rises in a different constellation. As mentioned above, we will be moving out of the age of Pisces and into the age of Aquarius around the end of 2012.
So it makes one wonder waht was up with these people..
They obviously were aware that they were on a planet and were aware of the size of the planet. They obviously had some kind of total obsession with celestial movements and heavenly bodies.
Was it simply an obsession? Many insist on putting some exiting slant on the whole thing; insisting that there must be some tangable reason for these ancient culture so painstakingly keeping track of the stars and the planets.. a logical reason that is.. such as trying to contact the "mothership" or trying to plot the course of incoming comets or meteors..
I'm more privy to the fact that these people compared to us today (mentally) were quite simply insane, by everyway that we would define it. We don't know waht kind of things that they believed... they may have believed that if they didn't plot the stars that some God was going to kill them, based on a dream that somone had.... we just don't know the mentality of these ancient peoples.... The chances that there was some practical reason for these activities seems pretty bleak based on our current knowledge of these primitive peoples.
All it could take is one mathematical genius to be born in an ancient culture for the **** to hit the fan. If some mad-nut decides to start explaining themselves to primitive peoples, I'm sure the complexity of it alone would be enough for them to start calling it divine.
HOwever, we already know that the ancient Egyptians believed that the celestial world should mirror the earth world.... so based on this one belief I can easily see some kind of mass hysteria about keeping everyhting as accurate as possible.... suc as keeping the Pyramids lined up with Orion's Belt and so on.
There is somthing to be said however regarding these "cycles" of the Earth. Is there any significance to them? So if over a period of 26,000 years the North Pole moves and the magnetic field of the Earth and the weather and the land masses all change..... would this be an indicator of somthing apocalyptic?
we know that these cycles happen, and that it greatly changes the state of the planet. The main argument is the Age of Civilization. At the time being, we only think that it is about 5000 years old... a mere fraction of Man's time on this Earth.
Based on that, be assume that before 5000 years that people were ignorant savages; club-weilding, unaware, and freshly out of the cave. However, if you concider the vast knowledge of some of these peoples.... if you concider the myths of some of these people.. many of which speak of "ancient ones" and "lost cities" how could be not concider the possiblity that before "all of this" that there may be 100,000s of 1000s of years of some Lost History?
It has found to be true that the Earth with "flush herself out" every 13,000 years or so, as the state of weather and geological conditions on the planet balance themselves out:
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due to varying gravitational forces, the axis wobbles (precesses) in a clockwise circle. Just imagine the way the axis of a top spins as it begins to fall. So, the angle of the earth stays the same (or somewhere within its three degree variance), but the direction in which it points changes. For example, our current North Star is Polaris (or Ursae Minoris), as the North Pole points towards this star. However, approximately 13,000 years ago, the North Pole would have pointed towards the star Vega, as it will do again in about another 13,000 years. It takes about 25,776 years to complete one precessional cycle.
So then how far fetched is it that before our known civilizations existed, that there may have been older ones that have long sinse crumbled in the cycles of the Earth and that some of our oldest civilizations may contain our closest hints to the knowledge of these. There are indeed many enigmas surrounding these....
My Point you ask?
I have too much time and caffeine.
