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[louie]

One thing has been facinating me, and that is the common thing that connects many many ancient structures. i know of Egyptan pyramids, Stonehenge, Newgrange,canary island pyramids,Angor watt. and the connection is thay are all alligned to the winter or summer solicaste, star constlations, or just mathmatically aligned.
How many other structures do you know of that are aligned. they are still finding small structures in South America.
do you know of any more.

[ritaroad7777]

There is Chichinetza in the Yucatan Penninsula of Mexico. I visited there one Christmas. The entire construction of the pyramids were incredible.

[Themis]

It depends on the kind of alignment you are looking for?

Some are aligned to the Cardinal Points (East etc), some to the Solstices (longest and shortest days), and some mark the constellations..

Our ancestors have been watching the sky along time.. the Babylonians recorded the positions and movements of the constellations in their astronomical tablets ..

As to why they did it, hmm, thats a whole new debate  

[louie]

well the summer and winter solicaste is the one that facinates me the most, but also the star alignments, meridans etc,
why they did it i dont want to get into that yet, its a long debate.
but im intrested in learning of more places that are aligned. i have a good few places but id like if anyone else has some names i havent come across yet.

[Themis]

Hmmm...

There is an argument for many of the henge monuments to be aligned to the Solstices, if you look at this site its a good starting point http://www.megalithic.co.uk/

There are other passage tombs in Ireland - Dowth, Knowth etc..

Also there are the Scottish ones such as Maes Howe and Mine Howe..

I can't remember how the earliest megalithic structures on Malta are aligned... may be worth checking..

And while you are looking an ancient structures don't forget the Zigguarats in Mesopotamia ...

Happy hunting  

[louie]

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Hmmm...

There is an argument for many of the henge monuments to be aligned to the Solstices, if you look at this site its a good starting point http://www.megalithic.co.uk/

There are other passage tombs in Ireland - Dowth, Knowth etc..

Also there are the Scottish ones such as Maes Howe and Mine Howe..

I can't remember how the earliest megalithic structures on Malta are aligned... may be worth checking..

And while you are looking an ancient structures don't forget the Zigguarats in Mesopotamia ...

Happy hunting  

Excellant stuff. you gave me a few i never heard of.
thanks

[Themis]

No problem.. Prehistory is one of my obsessions  

Before I start University full-time I'm planning to spend 2-3 months going round looking for cairns and chamber tombs in Scotland and Ireland  

[louie]

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No problem.. Prehistory is one of my obsessions  

Before I start University full-time I'm planning to spend 2-3 months going round looking for cairns and chamber tombs in Scotland and Ireland  

ok. good for you.
anybody got any good structures on the globe wich are aligned, anyone live near one or visited one.

[RAZU]

Check out the 30th parallel, a lot of ancient structures are aligned to it.

[louie]

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Check out the 30th parallel, a lot of ancient structures are aligned to it.

could you give me some more info to work on.
thanks

[Brenhinol]

This may sound stupid. but could it all b down 2 farming perhaps?  

[Themis]

I think it depends on the type of alignment - but that is a possibility  

[The Gremlin]

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This may sound stupid. but could it all b down 2 farming perhaps?  

Sut mae fella, i think youve hit the nail on the head there, either directly or indirectly many of these alignments have everything to do with farming, solar and lunar cycles seem to have been critical. Marking the solstices seems to have taken on a ritual significance for many cultures.

it may be that in zones near the equator where more harvests were possible per year, and the difference between summer and winter were less marked, that these alignments may have been in some places less ritually important, and other factors like cardinal and stellar alignments had more cultural significance. even here farming played a crucial role, linked strongly with mythologies and priesthoods. It is probable that in many cases the actual building work was carried out by farmers who had free time while their crops grew, or were not needed to tend the land. Like in egypt for example, it is believed that the monumental works like the pyramids etc, were carried out by farmers who inherited a second trade from their fathers, and in times when the nile was flooded participated in national building projects.
from what ive read hunter gatherer cultures found lunar cycles more important, and in cultures that farmed solar cycles became dominant in ritual. Sometimes it was the rising and setting of stars that was used as markers, but in most cases (dont want to say all because there's usually an exception) it is the planting and/or harvest times that were being regulated.
.....i think.

[Ulker-pleiades]

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could you give me some more info to work on.
thanks

check www.thehiddenrecords.com

[louie]

Im not disputing any reason for the alignments, but more so how the same idea pops up in sites all over the globe. im just looking for anyone who might know of some places i havent heard of yet.