Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Creon Newsgroups: soc.penpals Subject: Re: Vitruvian Man - parts 7-11a Date: 24 Mar 2024 02:00:42 GMT Lines: 75 Message-ID: References: <20240323.225411.47b76605@mixmin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net t1FGdfEFdd7BpANCuyl9Bwr8Q1ddensBwH1GmacOSC8u/MkSPt Cancel-Lock: sha1:eqOYmkUETuaZYd0tZctU5i0JmyA= sha256:XjRdu9NtVLnOdXDgrpxouPP64hS6vp7xKJG8yLMW9zA= X-Face: \}2`P"_@pS86<'EM:'b.Ml}8IuMK"pV"?FReF$'c.S%u9 [continued from parts 1 - 6] . . . > > * the three pyramids of gizeh are the most famous, everlasting and > iconic land- > marks in the world; hermians, altars, sundials, carefully placed as > tones on the scale, descending and ascending in the balance; the > first pyramid is car- dinal, the second is fixed, and the third is > mutable; the third decan of tau- > rus is cardinal earth, the synodic return of kappa/kronos, hence > "capricorn"; > the pyramids' dimensions and relative positions have been measured to > common agreement within geometric tolerance(Petrie's 1880-82 survey, > "web mercator" WGS84 ellipsoid/EPSG:4326, etc.); for star mapping, > JPL's DE431 ephemeris is ideal for use with astronomy software; the > 2.59 gigabyte binary is available here: > ftp://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/eph/planets/Linux/de431/ lnxm13000p17000.431 > (covers epoch of date -13200-08-15 to 17191-03-15); this file works > with the popular freeware Cartes du Ciel: > https://ap-i.net/skychart/en/download ; the following chart lists the > approximate center of each pyramid base in decimal degrees of > latitude and longitude: > > 1st Pyramid: ~29.979182, ~31.134206 2nd Pyramid: > ~29.975980, ~31.130789 3rd Pyramid: ~29.972513, > ~31.128241 > > * for this example, the Cartes du Ciel/Sky Chart program is set to > approximate > the geocentric sky using ecliptic coordinates for julian day -2073524 > (10390 years BC) to see if the famous Edgar Cayce reading 5748-6 > which says "10,490 to 10,390 before the Prince entered into Egypt" . > . ."date BC of that period" might show that the calculated epoch of > date positions of the "Belt of Orion" stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and > Mintaka could closely align with the present-day positions of the > pyramids: > > Alnitak: L +274*30'18"/+274.505000 B -26*44'18"/-26.738333 > 29tau41:48 Alnilam: L +273*17'43"/+273.295278 B > -25*55'25"/-25.923611 28tau29:13 Mintaka: L > +272*12'10"/+272.202778 B -24*57'12"/-24.953333 27tau23:40 > Aldebar: L +259*48'30"/+259.808333 B -05*56'23"/- 5.939722 > 15tau00:00 > > comparative studies of this subject (particularly by Bauval, Hancock, > et al) > have consistently showed that the first two pyramids are clearly an > "x marks the spot" match with the first two stars, while the third > pyramid is clearly not centered on the third star, and yet it is > tangent to it about two-thirds of the way down the western edge of > the pyramid's slightly-concave tetragram base (this subtle star-shape > most apparent in the first pyramid, least so in the second); the > coincidence of the third star so exactly touching the third pyramid > at its west edge provides further compelling evidence of correlation > by design; I have heard of this correlation of the Orion belt stars and the pyramids, but (if memory serves) it was in a bit of a woo-woo context. Certainly, though, ancient cultures saw the stars in a different way than we do; but then, there are also similarities. (For example, our units of degrees, minutes, and seconds came from Babylonian astrologers.) > the "mighty hunter in the field" theme of the unforgiving > mutable quartette fits neatly with the classic mythology of life, > death, and rebirth; Getting from pyramid placement to a particular ancient mythology is a bit of a leap, don't you think? -- -c