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Yes, it is vital that we do try and figure out the precise mechanism. But that these events occur I am virtually certain and also that they will occur again, hence the importance of trying to understand the mechanism. But we can only try and do that if mainstream science will look at that. But they won't look at it unless there is sufficient evidence that points to the reality of these events (most scientists today simply do not believe these legends or the evidence thus far gathered). Which is why I keep digging into our ancient past to try and find more evidence from our ancestors and that is what I have posted in the OP to this thread.
originally posted by: DaRAGE
Ok here is another little tid but of information.
The sphinx was facing towards the leo constellation at 10500 BC as well.
originally posted by: Startagainpen
My father was a very good engineer with a great mind, the only other thing he mentioned was the possibility of the pyramids being a counter weight (or attempt) to stop the shift or slow it down.
originally posted by: Startagainpen
I have followed here for over 15 years without making an account but today I made the account to reply to this.
Very good reading, and I joined to reply as my Father who passed 12 years ago had more or less the same theory as this and I was inclined to find it credible.
My father was a very good engineer with a great mind, the only other thing he mentioned was the possibility of the pyramids being a counter weight (or attempt) to stop the shift or slow it down.
originally posted by: Hooke
originally posted by: DaRAGE
Ok here is another little tid but of information.
The sphinx was facing towards the leo constellation at 10500 BC as well.
What evidence do you have that such a constellation was identified as early as 10,500 BC by inhabitants of the land later known as Egypt?
It has long been believed (and still is!) by Egyptologists that the ancient Egyptians did not know the zodiac and that it—the so-called Greco-Babylonian zodiac—was brought into Egypt sometime in the third or fourth century BCE, probably by the Greeks. This may indeed be so for the Babylonian zodiac, but it does not necessarily follow that the ancient Egyptians did not have a zodiac of their own or did not identify certain constellations along the zodiacal belt that were important to them. I very much believe they did have a four-constellation zodiac, and I will endeavor to show this here.
In the course of one year the sun appears to travel along a set path against a background of fixed stars. Astronomers call this path the ecliptic. There are clusters (constellations) of stars along this path that are very reminiscent of certain animals or objects that were familiar and common to most ancient cultures. These clusters are known as the zodiacal constellations, which is a derivative from the Greek word zōidiakos, meaning “circle of animals.” One of these zodiacal constellations is Leo, the lion. The writer Nancy Hathaway noted in her Friendly Guide to the Universe, “Leo resembles the lion after which it is named” (Hathaway 1964). Indeed, this constellation inspired many ancient cultures to identify it as a crouching or striding feline, usually a lion (Allen 1963, 252–63). In Egypt it was depicted as a lion on a sky-boat in the two zodiacs of Dendera and also in other zodiacs painted on the lids of sarcophagi, all dating from the Greco-Roman period. Egyptologists and astronomers agree that this lion is Leo, but are adamant that the ancient Egyptians did not know Leo before the Greco-Roman period, and thus any lions shown on astronomical drawings before the Greco-Roman period are deemed not to be the constellation we call Leo. The most outspoken on this matter is Edwin Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. According to Krupp, “Despite some wishful thinking, the Egyptian lion constellation was probably not Leo” ...
Krupp’s view on this issue was, however, hotly opposed by Russian astronomer Alexander Gurshtein, one-time president of the International Astronomy Union Commission on the History of Astronomy. According to Gurshtein, not only did the ancient Egyptians know the zodiacal constellation of Leo long before the Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans, but also the Great Sphinx was a symbolic image of Leo and Aquarius: “According to my conclusion the Great Sphinx is a symbolical image for two constellations: Leo (summer) and Aquarius (winter)” (Gurshtein 1999).
Also, more recently, a Spanish astronomer specializing in ancient Egyptian astronomy, Juan Belmonte, Ph.D., of the Teide Observatory on the island of Tenerife, as well as his colleague Jose Lull, an Egyptologist, have jointly published their views that Leo was known in the New Kingdom, thus some one thousand years before the Greco-Roman period in Egypt. Referring to the “divine lions” called m3i and ntr rwti in the Ramesside star chart and the Senmut ceiling, respectively, both of the New Kingdom and dated circa 1450 BCE–1100 BCE, Belmonte and Lull wrote, “We accept the premise that ntr rwti and m3i are exactly the same constellation (both rw and m3i mean “lion” in ancient Egyptian, the former having a certain sacred character). As a corollary, we support the idea that the lion can be identified to Leo” (Belmonte and Lull 2009, 166; Belmonte 2001, 57–66).
Previously, as early as 1985, the Egyptologist Virginia Davis of Yale University had also identified the constellation of Leo in ancient Egyptian texts that predate the Greco-Roman period (Trimble 1985, S103). Davis was followed by Donald Etz, Ph.D., in 1997 (Etz 1997), and more recently, in 2003, the Egyptologist Richard Wilkinson of the University of Arizona wrote, “The stellar constellation now known as Leo was also recognized by the Egyptians as being in the form of a recumbent lion . . . the constellation was directly associated to the sun-god” (Wilkinson 2003, 206). - Schoch and Bauval, Origins of the Sphinx, Appendix 3.
What evidence do you have that such a constellation was identified as early as 10,500 BC by inhabitants of the land later known as Egypt?
I'm not talking here about a geomagnetic pole shift event. I'm talking about a geographic pole shift event. Many of our ancient texts tell us of how the sun once rose in the west and set in the east. Here are some examples (from Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision):
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Scott Creighton
I'm not talking here about a geomagnetic pole shift event. I'm talking about a geographic pole shift event. Many of our ancient texts tell us of how the sun once rose in the west and set in the east. Here are some examples (from Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision):
I may have physical evidence to support your position. But I'm not sure folks are going to be ready for it
originally posted by: Compendium
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Interestingly, where I live in Darwin, Northern Territory, there is a place called "East Point", which sits on the West Coast, pointing to the West
... the easterly extremity of the entrance to Darwin Harbour
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Scott Creighton
I'm not talking here about a geomagnetic pole shift event. I'm talking about a geographic pole shift event. Many of our ancient texts tell us of how the sun once rose in the west and set in the east. Here are some examples (from Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision):
I may have physical evidence to support your position. But I'm not sure folks are going to be ready for it
originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: Scott Creighton
Hello and ty for the OP.
May I ask a few questions..
Do you think there any relationship between Saurid and Enoch
“Manetho names the second ruler of the IVth Dynasty Σοūφις [Sufis], and he is in fact Kheops . . . the name Σοūφις could easily have been misread by the translator or copyist as Σοūριδ, thus furnishing the base for the Arabic form Sūrīd.”
It looks interesting but i dont understand the 43.2° bit. How is that angel calibrated onto Orion belt. It consists of three stars. How do you measure the angel from that. I have seen the image but i am not getting how you are taking that angel from it.
In respect to the shafts lining up with the stars. How would the shaft pointing to Sirius line up with the shift theory. It still points at the same star today which might not fit into your theory.
10,500 BC is a date that comes up a lot. Is that when you think the pole shift happened or do you think it happened after that date.
Other pryamid structures in the world notabley in Mayan and ancient China use the belt of Orion in the set layout.. The angles of between the three stars however differs. Does this fit in with your theory. Could these pryamid sets by dated by the angel difference as you have said may be the case for the pyramids of Osirius.