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Hebrew Cherubim – 299 viewsIn Ezekiel Chapter One the Cherubim are described as four faced, having a head of a lion, a man, an ox, and an eagle. This is clear celestial imagery, pointing to the equinox and solstice colure of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio.
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Sacred Stone Circles in Britain form Cassiopia – 283 viewsNumerous sites in the ancient world were astronomically aligned to the sun, moon, and certain stars. Further, multiple sites were designed to represent constellations on the ground. Here, five sites in anceint Briton form an exact countermark to the constellation Casseiopia, a circumpolar star grouping seen every clear night in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Stonehenge – 248 viewsThe great Druid site was constructed around 2000 BC with previous markings, wood beams, embankments dating to 2800 BC. This was a religious center astronomically aligned to equinoxes, solstices, lunar cycles, and eclipses. Some scholars have also suggested that it was a planisphere with stones designating constellations of the zodiac.
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Stonehenge Stones – 265 viewsA close up of the multi ton stones used in the construction of Stonehenge. These stones were cut from a quarry some 200 miles away and transported to the site. The stones are controversial, but it is pretty clear that the site is a planisphere with alignments to sun and moon positions on the horizon.
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Kali Yuga 3312 BC – 277 viewsRichard Thompson hypothesizes that the image of the ancient Ram in India may not correspond to the rising sun in Aires on spring equinox, but a much earlier period, dated as the beginning of the new Yuga age, where all the planets, sun and moon constellated around the constellation of Aires in 3312 BC.
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Mayan Temple of Kulkulcan – 282 viewsA cross section of the Temple of Kulkulcan, the Mayan creator god, in Chitzen Itza. Jenkins suggests that the temple atop the pyramid is representative of the rattle of the snake. Curiously, the name for snake rattle and the star cluster Pleaides is the same word in ancient Maya. Numerous structures in the ancient world were astronomically aligned with the rising of the Pleaides.
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Mysteries of Mithras – 266 viewsThis is a fresco preserved in an ancient Mithras temple showing the hero Mithras slaying the cosmic bull. Stars glitter in Mithras's cape. This is a clear connection with the constellations Persues, who strides of Taurus, the bull, and slays it. One scholar has suggested that the mysteries of Mithras taught the precession of the equinoxes as Perseus slays the sun that rose in the bull and rises anew in the ram or lamb.
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Ram Sphinxes at Karnak – 253 viewsFurther connections with Rama, the Ramayana, and the vernal sun in Aires appear in Egypt, where the Pharoah Ramses III built ram headed sphinxes lining the processional alley to the temple of Karnak. Here, on spring equinox, the constellation Aires could be seen rising above the thoroughfare leading to the temple.
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Sun Rising in Aires, 1500 BC – 293 viewsA computer graphic showing the sunrise in New Dehli, India, 1500 BC on the day of the Spring Equinox. Here the sun rises in Aires, or the constellation of the ram. 1500 BC is the approximate dating of the written Ramayana, where Rama, the solar lord, conquers Ravanna and purges the world of evil. It is suggested that Rama is a mythological symbol for the rising sun in Aires, which vernal sun purges the world of the darkness of winter.
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Tycho Brahe's Solar System – 282 viewsA series of schematics were proposed by various philosopher-astronomers to explain the apparent movements of the planets in the sky all the while keeping earth in the center. To explain these movements a series of cycles and epi-cycles were crafted to show that the planets moved in circular sytems around earth.
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Both Astronomical Hemispheres – 277 viewsA map of the Northern and Southern stellar hemispheres. Viewing stars depends greatly on the latitude on earth one is standing at. Latitude will determine times of rising and setting of stars, as well as zenith calcualtions, all of which were important in ancient astronomy.
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Copernicus Solar System – 280 viewsIt is still widely taught that Copernicus was the first to rightly devise that the earth rotated around the sun and not the other way around. However, this tenant cannot be accepted as ancient astronomers as far back as Egypt and India clearly understood the proper solar system mechanics. Needleman suggests that earth as center was part of an esoteric teaching misunderstood and literally interpreted.
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