Hi Dennis.

DUNE Wrote:
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> Hi Lee, not wanting to come across as picky but
> the Ur Ziggurat does not seem to be aligned to the
> cardinal points



Sorry, that was supposed to say:

"Ziggurats, including the earliest such as the ziggurat of Uruk c. 3200-3000BC, as a rule aligned their corners to the cardinal points."

Not sure how I edited that out, but as you can see by your pictures the corners are in fact aligned to the cardinal points. Aligning the corners was a unique Mesopotamian invention which curiously several of the 3rd/4th Dynasty southern pyramids are aligned this way.

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The corners not sides are aligned to the cardinal points, a feature unique to Mesopotamian ziggurats. Along with a predynastic fortress in nearby Hierakonpolis, this led early Egyptologists to suggest it was a product of Mesopotamian influence with later reasoning it was not for no other reason than it "couldn't be".

Forgotten 3rd Dynasty Pyramids of the South

> What i am interested in, is what Ori first brought
> up about who first decided on East and West, as i
> assume the North South idea was born out of
> understanding Earth rotated around a center point
> via the pole star, so maybe they just said lets
> cut this imaginary line through the Earth at it
> center by 90 degrees to give them their four
> direction, maybe that was the beginning of the
> cross/Ankh symbol

The AE considered southern Egypt to be "upper Egypt" and the north to be "lower". I have wondered if this had anything to do with this.

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To determine true South:

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This method uses the fact that the sun is always due south at solar noon. A shadow cast by a vertical object at solar noon runs true north-south. So, at solar noon, use the shadow cast by a plumb-bob string or the vertical edge of a building to determine true south.

Was this the raising of the Djed ceremony, often associated with the ground breaking or constriction, to determine true south?


Thuban and the Descending Passages-The Key to Dating the Pyramids?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 31-Jan-17 22:19 by Thanos5150.