What if the zodiac itself has no actual meaning? What if the pre-flood/disaster civilization knew that disaster was cyclical, and had lived through it as Hancock proposes, and wanted to provide a warning to the future. If the event could be tied to a specific alignment of the stars, then some way of communicating a sky map with a "here be monsters" warning was needed. How do you map the sky in a durable way, language-independant? It's not like you can practically map out everything in some kind of grid system that can be easy to understand. You need a device, like an acronym, but much bigger. So you use the human habit of organizing things into patterns, and you describe the sky as a group of pictures. You create stories about each of these pictures. Even if the exact meaning becomes obscured, the story-telling traditions you establish keep the code alive. You create sites where these images are saved as sacred. You create art that shows them in relation to each other. So if the comet comes from a certain place every time, say the 7 sisters, then people watching the sky would notice the appearance of an 8th sister. Hopefully, they would then know something is amiss. Just a thought.
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