The Zodiac of Dendera cont.
The patterns of the ‘Fixed’ stars are not static. Within each constellation they change subtly in relation to each other over many thousands of years. It would be absurd to think that the builders of the pyramids, famed for unmatchable accuracy, would make an error in placing these structures.
Astro-archaeology is an infant science which has yet to gain respect among academics but there are circumstances when it’s the only option for dating an ancient site. The Sphinx is a perfect example.
The bulk of this monumental statue is hewn from living rock and can’t therefore be dated using radiocarbon methods. The evidence so far evaluated in its dating comes from successive restorations and the effects of weathering.
The only plausible explanation for the spectacular appearance of a fully mature culture along the Nile in the 3rd millennium BCE is that the inhabitants of the area rediscovered and built upon secrets left by a more ancient civilisation. There has long been speculation that a ‘time-capsule’ or repository of knowledge was concealed under the Sphinx, so was it through the discovery of this ‘library’ that the culture we recognise as Egyptian came so swiftly into being?
Assuming the pyramid complex was laid out on the configuration of Orion/Osiris according to some plan left in that repository, it’s based on the appearance of the constellation in the previous Age of Leo, around 38,000 BCE. Curiously, this coincides with the generally accepted era of the emergence of Cro-Magnon or ‘modern’ man.
