Re: Pyramids as Planet X Sighting Device??
In Article <20011024002120.14341.00001057@mb-fq.aol.com> Quick Draw wrote:
> another thing that doesn't make sense is the process of
> precession. Any astronomer knows the earth goes
> through procession, a slow (26,000 year) wobble
> that causes the Earth's poles to point in different
> directions. I've seen the Egyptians' view of the
> night sky, by way of a planetarium of course, and
> the stars were off by quite a bit from where they are
> today.
Was this what the Egyptians reported, or what is computed based on the
precession understanding? If from ancient Egypt, then the changes
during the last pole shift should be taken into consideration, ala the
Piri Reis maps (quote below). If from our understanding of precession,
our Epoch changes every 50 years, how much would this change the ACTUAL
location of something x below the ecliptic, during 3,657 years?
Remember, the exact time (based on rotation speed) when light would
flood down the tunnel in the Giant Pyramid did not matter, it was the RA
and in particular the Declination that would matter, the relationship to
where Orion was located. Would this change, over 3,657 years, be
outside the dimensions of the tunnel?
Troubled Times page on Piri Reis Map
Have just re-read Charriots of the Gods. It deals with
the Piri Reis Map on pages 29/30/31. Research that
was done by USA Navy cartographers seemed to
indicate that the map is drawn as seen high up from
space. It also depicts the interior, which navigators
could not have been aware of and depicts mountain
ranges in the Antarctica hidden for thousands of
years under ice.
Stephen
The Piri Reis Map ... focuses on the western coast
of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and
the northern coast of Antarctica. Piri Reis could not
have acquired his information on this latter region
from contemporary explorers because Antarctica
remained undiscovered until 1818 CE ... The ice-free
coast of Queen Maud Land shown in the map is a
colossal puzzle because the geological evidence
confirms that the very latest date that it could have
been surveyed and charted in an ice-free condition is
4000 BCE. It is not possible to pinpoint the earliest
date that such a task could have been accomplished,
but it seems that the Queen Maud Land littoral may
have remained in a stable, unglaciated condition for
at least 9,000 years before the spreading ice-cap
swallowed it entirely. There is no civilization known
to history that had the capacity or need to survey that
coastline in the relevant period, i.e. between 13,000
BCE and 4000 BCE.
http://www.survive2012.com/pirireismap.html