Posted on 05/25/2008 8:29:53 PM PDT by blam
Star watch - Archaeologists discover a “cosmic clock”
Overcrowded in their lower reaches they might be, but the Canary Islands still possess some solitary mountain wilder-nesses, places little visited thanks to their rugged inaccessibility, and which have hardly changed since they were frequented by the pre-colonial aboriginal islanders.
And traces of their presence are still turning up, often in the form of petroglyphs, enigmatic scratched marks on rocks and boulders which held some special significance about which we can only guess today.
The latest find is, say archaeologists, one of the most exciting. They are calling it a cosmic clock, a description guaranteed to get the imagination of any sci-fi fans racing.
But there are no flashing lights and strange dials. The reality, a piece of stone 44 centimetres high and 34 wide, would certainly disappoint them, but the experts are hailing the Summer Stone as a major discovery.
Found on the rarified heights of Cabeceras de Izcagua in La Palma, at an altitude of 2,140metres, on a site inhabited by the Awaras (as the original inhabitants of that island were called), it is thought that the stone was instrumental in calculations to mark the equinoxes. The stone has symbols of the sun facing north-east scratched upon it. The system used depended upon the alignment of three piles of stones with a facing mountain, from behind which the spring and autumn equinoctial sun rose – and still does.
Strangely enough that mountain is still associated with sky-watching. The Roque de Los Muchachos is the site of a world famous observatory which houses one of the world’s largest telescopes. An odd case of back to the future. AW
Star clock... rubbish!
Clearly it’s a giant’s thumb print.
the megalithic era people of northern and central europe had a standard measure and a system for it’s use, with poles mounted in a circle in the earth, by which every equinox and every moon phase could be known and predicted, and it could be, and was, set up anywhere (in fact it still can be used)
the only things needed were the standard measure (now referred to as the megalithic yard) and the systematic placement of the poles over time, over the first year
some believe Stonehenge was part of the same thing on a larger scale
It looks like a rip off from the Anasazi .
Or the Anasazi ripped it off from them OR the Anasazi and the ancients known as Awaras are one and same people.
Take your choice. I don’t believe that the western hemisphere was as isolated from the rest of humanity as American Indians would have it.
the observatory
Well, I’d like to know if the clock is counting up...or down.
Some aboriginal doodles in the sand some 2000 yrs ago.........
My first thought too.
Your all wrong...
It’s a 10,000 year old 10,000 ton fossilized cinnamon roll!
They're everywhere...
La Palma Island, Canary Islands.
Newgrange
Sahara
Tuscon, Arizona
Whirly gigs.
Last one looks like a dune buggy. Aliens on the beach?
Rising nearly 400 feet above the desert floor in a remote section of ancient Anasazi territory named Chaco Canyon stands an imposing natural structure called Fajada Butte. Along a narrrow ledge near the top of the butte is a sacred Native American site given the name Sun Dagger
Starry Night ?
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IIRC, I did read and see some documentaries where there was a group of native people who lived on the Canary Island but the Spanish Conquestadors wiped them out. There were some who say and believe these people could have been the descendants of Atlantis.
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