Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Orienting the corners to the cardinal points also
> aligns the faces to the solstices (or vise versa),
> which as a rectangle aligns to the rising winter
> and summer solstices [This drawing is upside down
> so flip it in your mind to put north at the top]:
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> As a square it aligns to both solstice sunset and
> sunrises:
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> The point of aligning the corners to the
> cardinal points was to not only serve as a
> compass, but also a clock.
>
> Apparently I am not as dumb as I look:
> [url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXOxGOpawuM
> C&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Chogha+Zanbil+solstice&sou
> rce=bl&ots=h1g44-Mo2g&sig=Hcgs3FtSAz4kVl7bymL31FYi
> 66U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6n9uThPfRAhUjwVQKHSPaCM
> EQ6AEIODAD#v=onepage&q=Chogha%20Zanbil%20solstice&
> f=false]The Power of Stars: How Celestial
> Observations Have Shaped Civilization[/url]
> [img]http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/ur%2
> 0of%20the%20chaldees/ur02_ziggurat01.jpg[/img]
> This is the view facing the summer solstice "which
> would rise on the horizon in the direction of the
> large staircase to the top level".

Your explanation couldn't be any simpler.

note the angular shadow

not just here but in any structure, that is also cardinally aligned in one manner or another.

even if not planned for..that shadow , or another would change through the day.

Observant ancient man wouldn't need to be a genius to figure this out.

Strange that so many self appointed geniuses insist ancient man required to be Taught this.

Warwick