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Subject: Re: Vitruvian Man - parts 7-11a
Date: 24 Mar 2024 02:00:42 GMT
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:54:11 +0000, D wrote:

> [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