Could the stargazing cave nerd have been smart enough to have specified a unique day from which to compare the assumed repeating data cycles? If the 360 degree division standard was adopted and used, then we would find that the difference in the first mark on the stone and the one that is a full solar cycle away, namely 364.25 days, round to 365, would be 1/72nd of a degree offset. Thus, Zog would have to extrapolate to figure out that it would take 72 full solar cycles to offset the mark on the stone by 1 degree, having dividing the circle arbitrarily into 360 degrees with a lucky guess. Thus, for the shadow mark etched on the “marker stone” to travel a full circle and arrive back at the same point as that annotated the first year, would take 72 years times 360 degrees, or 25,920 years. That’s a lot of shells and beads to represent a “Great Year” as it is termed [20.]
This is the level of knowledge that would be needed to begin to comprehend the scientific basis for the earth’s processional movement around the solar ecliptic. Why would one dedicate such significant time observing the movements of the sun on the horizon? Unless of course you were a nerd like Zog, or more likely a temple priest watching the heavens for the appointed time of change to be communicated to the next Zodiac ruler, in preparation for a change in command. For the record, occurring on 07.29.13 as I work on this book, the Grand Sextile Alignment is occurring, creating a Star of David in the Heavens, for the 13th time since 1990 is truly significant as a War Star sign. There is a lot of buzz on YouTube about this event as the next one will not occur for over 100 years from now. Is it a coincidence, that simultaneously, Israel just bombed Damascus, again, as the world awaits a response? The situation in Syria appears to be a Biblically significant war, especially if Damascus becomes a ruinous heap as Isaiah 17:1 predicts it will as part of the end times.
Farmers have used the knowledge of the longest day of winter as a marker point in the planting cycle, seeking the earliest time in the season, depending on geography, to sew their crops averting a crop damaging frost. The coming of the Spring Equinox was celebrated around the ancient world. Recognition of this event was fashioned in the temple architecture, providing a long axis aligned to the point on the earth’s horizon where the sun rises, channeling the sunlight along a corridor with a marker stone to save the place where the light strikes. To make the measurement relevant, the designer had to keep in mind that the earth is precessing, moving opposite the direction of rotation.
Thus, the marks on the stone where the sun struck would be moving as indicated previously for Zog. An ingenious way to deal with this is to assign the 360 degree circle representing the orbital path with a set of divisions which can be visually tracked in the night sky. This is where the twelve houses of the Zodiac, provided to the Sumerians by the Anunnaki, are so useful. Simply using the star groupings relative to the horizon, split into three slices: Southern Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, and the Central Zone along the earth’s equator. Interestingly enough, the three segments were assigned to Enki, Enlil, and Anu respectively.
At this point in our pretend scenario, assuming Zog would have been able to simply watch the night sky and put together the Zodiac House we still use today is questionable. That said, the Anunnaki not only divulged this knowledge to the Sumerians, they even had their namesakes affiliated with the planets as shown in Table 6 below.
Anunnaki
Planetary Affiliation
Symbol
Anu
Uranus
Enlil
Jupiter
Enki
Neptune
Ningishzida
Mercury
Inanna
Venus
Iskur-Adad
Mars
Table 6: Anunnaki Planetary Affiliation
It is interesting times we are living in as it relates to astronomy. Pluto was recently demoted from planetary status and the thirteenth sign of Ophiuchus was added to the official Zodiac as of the year 2011. According to Robert Brit, Senior Science writer for Space.com, capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved on August 24th, 2006, to demote Pluto from planetary status to a dwarf planet category. Was this done as an appeasement to the Mayan predictions? The reason is unclear.
The hidden sign of Ophiuchus was designated between Sagittarius and Scorpio. It was stated in Mayan legends that the point in celestial time that the Sun would rise in the sign of Ophiuchus coincides with the solar system’s passage through the galactic center [66, 67].
By the 1930’s, the astronomical community had accepted the fact that the Galactic Center was located in the constellation of Sagittarius. Early observations studying the source of static that was affecting transatlantic phone calls, led to the discovery of a 20.5 MHz frequency being emitted in the constellation of Sagittarius, then known to be Galactic Center by scientists. The theory of the existence of a black hole at the center of our galaxy was put forth by Martin Rees and Donald Lynden-Bell in 1971. They believed that a black hole could be one possible explanation for the tremendous amount of energy that had been detected coming from the Galactic Center [109].
Just three years later, Bruce Balick and Robert Brown detected such a compact source in the inner one parsec core of the galactic nucleus [109]. They found the location of this extremely energetic source, Sagittarius A star, to coincide with the dynamical center of the galaxy. The scientists had detected the first evidence that a massive black hole resided in the heart of our galaxy. The exact distance from the Sun to the Galactic Center falls within the range 25,000 to 28,000 light years away. Due to the presence of interstellar dust, the Galactic Center cannot be studies in the visible, ultraviolet or X-ray wavelengths. Current scientific data comes from observations using gamma rays, infrared, hard X-rays, and sub-millimeter radio wavelengths.
The Milky Way passes through about 30 constellations. The band divides the night sky into two roughly equal hemispheres. The Galactic plane is inclined by about 60 degrees to the plane of the Earth's orbit. Why would one care about the center of the galaxy? Modern science, studying solar system physics, has shown that the radiation within the galactic center is much higher than outside that plane. Staying away from the galactic center has an additional advantage. The center of the Galaxy is awash in harmful radiation. Solar systems near the center would experience increased exposure to gamma rays, X-rays, and cosmic rays, which would destroy any life trying to evolve on a planet.
Radiation is measured in micro Sieverts, designated bySv. The average radiation you receive per day is about 10Sv. Visiting the dentist for an X-ray radiates you with 100Sv, ten times the normal amount received in a day. The maximum allowable radiation dose for humans in the United States, for occupational standards, is 50,000Sv. Severe radiation poisoning occurs at 2 millionSv and 6-8 millionSv causes death. The Milky Way’s Galactic Cosmic Radiation, or GCR, is found between a few tenths and few tens of GeV (yes, 10 Giga Electron Volts), exceeding deadly human exposure limits.