I did a post on AoM and Madeleine suggested I put it in a topic here so as not to sidetrack from her work this month. So, here it goes.
I’ll do a couple of images so they help. They are composite using sun positions on the hour from dawn to dusk to dawn again, and the radiations linking one sun position to the other so there are 12 radiations linking 24 sun positions. They are presented in Mercator Projection.
This is the dawn image for the March equinox this year as seen from Khufu’s Pyramid. The horizon as seen from there is the horizontal green line, the ecliptic the curving orange line, and the celestial equator the greater blue line. The sun is right at the intersection of ecliptic and equator so the sun will follow the equatorial line on the equinox. It is a very cool thing where Khufu’s Pyramid is located because it allows for such an even progression of sun through the day. The bugger for them locating the pyramid comes down to refraction of light through our atmosphere, so sun appears thus right at dawn while it in fact is still below the horizon. Right at midday though, it is straight upon the southern meridian and nearly right upon the perceived equator. I don’t think the architect of the pyramid could ultimately reconcile perception with fact and averaged two things: sun appearance and sun actual position. This is why the pyramid has its location as it does...the equator would want to be 60deg above the horizon on the southern meridian, which would want the pyramid 30deg above our own equator. Damn atmosphere did a trick though, and someone did their best trying to reconcile perception and fact.
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The next image shows the combination of day with night. You will notice I have combined a southern view with a northern view in order to merge sun into one image, and the sun appears at dawn on the left for the southern view, and at set on the right for northern view...but the set is a reversed image. It has to be in order to reconcile a greater view of the cosmos into a flat view instead of a 3D view. 3D offers something completely different.
In the above image, you will notice an ellipse beneath the horizon, while in the below image the ellipse has moved to emanate from and surround the radiation-intersection. The ellipse defines our Precessional orbit of southern pole extended into the cosmos.
Combining equatorial curves becomes the eye itself; the radiations the iris; the Precessional circle the pupil. Depending on where one is upon Earth, these observations change for the equinox but then one can use another day to offer up the same result. And then there is the location which would alter how things appear. This of course alters how the equator appears both above and below the horizon. One could actually be located so that merging equators offers a perfect circle, or merging equators offers a perfect eye-shape. This would alter the Precessional circle and make it appear either more elliptical or appear as a perfect circle.
Is Gobekli Tepe such a location? Hmm...I guess we could recreate these images from the location of GT and find out...or we could find the exact location where appearances create circles instead of ellipses and vice versa...and maybe discover a whole new thing on our planet.
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Cheers
I’ll do a couple of images so they help. They are composite using sun positions on the hour from dawn to dusk to dawn again, and the radiations linking one sun position to the other so there are 12 radiations linking 24 sun positions. They are presented in Mercator Projection.
This is the dawn image for the March equinox this year as seen from Khufu’s Pyramid. The horizon as seen from there is the horizontal green line, the ecliptic the curving orange line, and the celestial equator the greater blue line. The sun is right at the intersection of ecliptic and equator so the sun will follow the equatorial line on the equinox. It is a very cool thing where Khufu’s Pyramid is located because it allows for such an even progression of sun through the day. The bugger for them locating the pyramid comes down to refraction of light through our atmosphere, so sun appears thus right at dawn while it in fact is still below the horizon. Right at midday though, it is straight upon the southern meridian and nearly right upon the perceived equator. I don’t think the architect of the pyramid could ultimately reconcile perception with fact and averaged two things: sun appearance and sun actual position. This is why the pyramid has its location as it does...the equator would want to be 60deg above the horizon on the southern meridian, which would want the pyramid 30deg above our own equator. Damn atmosphere did a trick though, and someone did their best trying to reconcile perception and fact.
The next image shows the combination of day with night. You will notice I have combined a southern view with a northern view in order to merge sun into one image, and the sun appears at dawn on the left for the southern view, and at set on the right for northern view...but the set is a reversed image. It has to be in order to reconcile a greater view of the cosmos into a flat view instead of a 3D view. 3D offers something completely different.
In the above image, you will notice an ellipse beneath the horizon, while in the below image the ellipse has moved to emanate from and surround the radiation-intersection. The ellipse defines our Precessional orbit of southern pole extended into the cosmos.
Combining equatorial curves becomes the eye itself; the radiations the iris; the Precessional circle the pupil. Depending on where one is upon Earth, these observations change for the equinox but then one can use another day to offer up the same result. And then there is the location which would alter how things appear. This of course alters how the equator appears both above and below the horizon. One could actually be located so that merging equators offers a perfect circle, or merging equators offers a perfect eye-shape. This would alter the Precessional circle and make it appear either more elliptical or appear as a perfect circle.
Is Gobekli Tepe such a location? Hmm...I guess we could recreate these images from the location of GT and find out...or we could find the exact location where appearances create circles instead of ellipses and vice versa...and maybe discover a whole new thing on our planet.
Cheers