(5000-1500 BC)
Quantifying astronomical time and geophysical space,
using alignment, counting and geometry.
- Multiple Squares to form Flattened Circle Megaliths
above: a 28 square grid with double, triple (top), and four-square rectangles (red), plus (gray again) the triple rectangles within class B Contents 1. Problems with Thom’s Stone Circle Geometries. 2. Egyptian Grids of Multiple Squares. 3. Generating Flattened Circles using a Grid of Squares. ABSTRACT This paper reviews the geometries proposed by Alexander ThomScottish … Continue reading “Astronomy” - Knowing Time in the Megalithic
The human viewpoint is from the day being lived through and, as weeks and months pass, the larger phenomenon of the year moves the sun in the sky causing seasons. Time to us is stored as a calendar or year diary, and the human present moment conceives of a whole week, a whole month or … Continue reading “Knowing Time in the Megalithic” - Counting Perimeters
above: a slide from my lecture at Megalithomania in 2015 We know that some paleolithic marks counted in days the moon’s illuminations, which over two cycles equal 59 day-marks. This paved the way for the megalithic monuments that studied the stars by pointing to the sky on the horizon; at the sun and moon rising … Continue reading “Counting Perimeters” - The Best Eclipse Cycle
The anniversary of the Octon (4 eclipse years in 47 lunar months) did not provide similar eclipses and so, by counting more than four, the other motions of the Moon could also form part of that anniversary. This is especially true of the anomalistic month, which changes the changes the apparent size of the Moon … Continue reading “The Best Eclipse Cycle” - Vectors in Prehistory 1
In previous posts, it has been shown how a linear count of time can form a square and circle of equal perimeterA type of geometry where an rectilinear geometry has same perimeter as a circle, usually a square but also a 6 by 5 rectangle whose perimeter is 22, assuming pi is 22/7 or 3 + 1/7. to a count. In this way three … Continue reading “Vectors in Prehistory 1” - The Fourfold Nature of Eclipses
The previous post ended with a sacred geometrical diagram expressing the eclipse yearthe time taken (346.62 days) for the sun to again sit on the same lunar node, which is when an eclipse can happen. as circumference and four anomalous months as its diameter. The circle itself showed an out-square of side length 4, a … Continue reading “The Fourfold Nature of Eclipses” - The Strange Design of Eclipses
We all know about solar eclipses but they are rarely seen, since the shadow of the moon (at one of its two orbital nodes) creates a cone of darkness which only covers a small part of the earth’s surface which travels from west to east, taking hours. For the megalithic to have pinned their knowledge … Continue reading “The Strange Design of Eclipses” - The Fourfold Nature of Sun and Moon
A previous post explained the anatomy of the primary celestial cycles of the Sun and Moon. The “resting” part of these cycles are the winter solsticeThe extreme points of sunrise and sunset in the year. In midwinter the sun is to the south of the celestial equator (the reverse in the southern hemisphere) and in … Continue reading “The Fourfold Nature of Sun and Moon” - Time and the Midpoints of the Sun and Moon
Our two luminaries, the sun and moon, share a similar form-in-time, as the seasonal year and the monthly phases of the moon. The form they share is of two extremes of opposite character, and two midpoints between these. The Solar Extremes: At the solar extremes, the sun rises high in midsummer day and rises to … Continue reading “Time and the Midpoints of the Sun and Moon” - The Integration of the Megalithic Yard
Above is a proposed geometric relation between Thom’s megalithic yardAny unit of length 2.7-2.73 feet long, after Alexander ThomScottish engineer 1894-1985. Discovered, through surveying, that Britain's megalithic circles expressed astronomy using exact measures, geometrical forms and, where possible, whole numbers. discovered 2.72 ft and 2.722 ft as units within the geometry within the megalithic monuments of Britain and Brittany. (2.72 feet), the royal cubit3/2 feet of any sort, such as 12/7 {1.714285}, 1.5 Royal feet of … Continue reading “The Integration of the Megalithic Yard” - An Angelic Geometrical Design
The above diagram contains information with can generally only be grasped by using a geometrical diagram. Its focus is the properties of a right triangle that is 4 times larger than its third and shortest side. The left hand view illustrates what we call Pythagoras’ theorum, namely that “The squares of the shorter sides add … Continue reading “An Angelic Geometrical Design” - Jupiter’s gravitational and numerical influence
This post begins a Theme relating to the TrigonThe conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn every 19.8 years. Three trigons span the entire ZodiacThe 12 constellations through which the sun passes in the solar year of 365.2422 days in 60 years resembling the three steps the Indian god Vishnu took to span the whole universe. event occurring on 21st December 2020, when Jupiter and Saturn are conjunct at dusk in … Continue reading “Jupiter’s gravitational and numerical influence” - Before, during and after Sacred Geometry
above: Carreg Coetan Arthur portal dolmenA chamber made of vertical megalithsStructures built out of large little-altered stones in the new stone age or neolithic between 5,000-2,500 (bronze age), in the pursuit of astronomical knowledge. upon which a roof or ceiling slab was balanced. in Newport, Pembrokeshire. The prehistory of sacred geometry was the late stone age, when the stone circles, dolmens, and long alignmentsIn general, to the sun and moon on the horizon, rising in the east or … Continue reading “Before, during and after Sacred Geometry” - Astronomy 3: Understanding Time Cycles
above: a 21-petal object in the Heraklion Museum which could represent the 21 seven-day weeks in the 399 days of the Jupiter synod. [2004, Richard Heath] One of the unfortunate aspects of adopting the number 360 for calibrating the EclipticThe path of the Sun through the sky along which eclipses of sun and moon can … Continue reading “Astronomy 3: Understanding Time Cycles” - Astronomy 2: The Chariot with One Wheel
What really happens when Earth turns? The rotation of Earth describes periods that are measured in days. The solar yearFrom Earth: the time in which the sun moves once around the Zodiac, now known to be caused by the orbital period of the Earth around the Sun. is 365.242 days long, the lunation period 29.53 … Continue reading “Astronomy 2: The Chariot with One Wheel” - Astronomy 1: Knowing North and the Circumpolar Sky
about how the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west were determined, from Sacred Number and the Lords of Time, chapter 4, pages 84-86. Away from the tropics there is always a circle of the sky whose circumpolar stars never set and that can be used for observational astronomy. As latitude increases the pole … Continue reading “Astronomy 1: Knowing North and the Circumpolar Sky” - THE MEANING OF LE MENEC (PDF)
This paper proposes that an unfamiliar type of circumpolar astronomy was practiced by the time Le Menec was built, around 4000 BCE. This observatory enabled the rotation of the earth and eclipticThe path of the Sun through the sky along which eclipses of sun and moon can occur, traditionally divided into the 365¼ parts of the solar … Continue reading “THE MEANING OF LE MENEC (PDF)” - Video: Some Numbers of Cosmic Intelligence
This was recorded before 2012 using diagrams slides and voice-over. It still introduces well how the megalithic solved astronomical problems. - Three Lunar Orbits as 82 day-inchesSacred Number and the Lords of Time interpreted Thom’s megalithic fathom of 6.8 feet (as 2.72 feet times 2.5) found at Carnac’s AlignmentsIn general, to the sun and moon on the horizon, rising in the east or setting in the west. Also, a name special to Carnac’s groups of parallel rows of stones, called Le … Continue reading “Three Lunar Orbits as 82 day-inches”