Astronomy
Posted on 05/02/2006 9:15:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
[S]omewhere between the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu and mountaintop observatories of Cerro Tololo, Chile, retiree Larry Adkins opened a mysterious e-mail from an old childhood pal. And suddenly, Adkins, 66, of Tustin was solving a 4,000-year-old riddle, wrapped around pyramids, buried temples, mummies and a dark-cloud constellation known as The Fox. The temple just may be the Western Hemisphere's equivalent of Stonehenge, an ancient calendrical device intended to mark the seasons by pinpointing the summer solstice sunrise and the winter solstice sunset. If Adkins and his friend's discovery stands up to academic scrutiny, "It would be the oldest known solstice marker in the hemisphere and one of the oldest in the world," says Dave Dearborn, co-editor of Archeoastronomy journal... Peruvian nights reveal a far different sky from our own. One where the Milky Way streaks across the heavens in a white path. Intergalactic dust creates dark shapes inside, called dark star constellations. Andean sky watchers named these after animals: The Llama, the Turtle, the Snake and ... the Fox. This is where Adkins' astronomical calculations fit in. First, he found that the summer solstice sun in Lima rises at exactly 114 degrees. Directly over the modified rock. Then he found that in 2,200 B.C., the summer's first sun would be announced by a celestial visitor watching from just above - a dark star constellation painted in Incan murals. The Fox... In Peru's Chillon Valley, it allowed society to know when to plant cotton in the flood plain and when to stop. And it did so not just a little earlier than anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, but lots earlier.
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The Dogon tribe in northwestern Africa have a lot of very old astronomical lore, particularly relating to the star Sirius. The also relate this to the Pale Fox. I am going to try to find the book I read where I read about this and see if there could be any connection.
I also wonder if this time was significant to these people because of the worldwide astronomical(?) catastrophe that seemed to occur around this time.
Dogon tribe.
not sure what to believe of that story.
I read that later researchers asked the Dogon whether it was really true that the believed in all that stuff, and the Dogon claimed that they didnt knew what they where talking about.
So basically you only have that first guy who wrote the book as evidence. He ofcourse claimed that it was secret information that the Dogon only gave to him and now would surely deny.
So.....
oops, my mistake, this is the first:
Professor shares Andean discovery, a 4,000-year-old temple
Columbia Missourian | April 25, 2006 | Ryan B. Schreiber
Posted on 04/26/2006 11:44:19 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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