Originally posted by metaldemon2000
Also as for the ancients understanding of space i think this image pretty much paints a clear picture.
that picture shows the Pleiades, and the cylinder seal shows the Akitu festival
The name Akitu is very ancient. In the third millennium BCE, the Sumerian population of southern Mesopotamia celebrated the á-ki-ti-še-gur10-ku5, the festival of the sowing of barley. It was celebrated in the first month of the year, that is in March/April.
www.livius.org...
The setting of the Pleiades, celebrated during the fall in November/December, brought with it death and endings; and the rising of the Pleiades, celebrated in the spring during March/April, came new birth and beginnings.
this claim was based on the work of Zechariah Sitchin who is a notorious pseudo historian and not qualified to make these claims. He for instance claims that that cylinder seal is Sumerian (its akkadian) and shows the Annunaki (theyre babylonian) and shows the twelve planets of our solar system (there are 8). He is a qualified economist which means that he can look at a market and see what will sell. He certainly bought you didn't he
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
Also, although not as ancient, is the Mayan culture and their vast knowledge of astronomy and even the ever controversial calander ending at 2012. What strikes me as odd however, is how the Mayans knew as much as they did while still living quite primitively and the europeans did not discover much about space until they were much more sophisticated.
our calendar ends every year on the 31st december. there is nothing significant about that and likewise there is nothing significant about the mayan calendar. If the Mayans had such advanced knowledge how do you explain their complete inability to see the end of their own civilisation. Presumably they thought they would be around to see the end of their calendar and they weren't. Today most mayans use the Gregorian calendar the same as the rest of us because it is superior
the mayans knew of five planets believed that the world was surrounded by water and thought that the five planets they could see were Gods. they even had stories to explain how the gods had got up there and none of them involved advanced machinery
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
For example some South american cities have dated back as much as 20000 years and show incredible engineering feats many of which we could not copy today.
the oldest city in South America is Caral
en.wikipedia.org...
Caral was inhabited between roughly 2627 BC and 2020 BC, enclosing an area of 66 hectares. Caral was described by its excavators as the oldest urban center in the Americas, a claim that was later challenged as other ancient sites were found nearby. Accommodating more than 3,000 inhabitants it is the best-studied and one of the largest Norte Chico sites known.
your belief that we could not copy any building feat is ludicrous and based on the claims of pseudo historians who want you to buy their books because only they know the truth having not bothered themselves to do any research.
the first thing that the spanish did when they arrived in South america was tore down temples and used the stone to built huge Spanish Baroque style cathedrals on the same spots. Although personally I think this was atrocious I would like to have seen the same feat performed by any native group who didn't even know what a foundation was for. that was why all their building were low and had a large flat base.
en.wikipedia.org...
The Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City is one of the largest cathedrals in the Western Hemisphere. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, Hernan Cortés began the construction of a Catholic church. This church was demolished circa 1573 and a new cathedral was built on the same place.
compare this
with this
this is the reason you continually get things incorrect. Because you are basing your belief system on the work of people who are intellectually bankrupt
if you arent prepared to do the research yourself then don't expect to be able to get away with making spurious claims about things you don't understand
[edit on 27-11-2007 by kerkinana walsky]
[edit on 27-11-2007 by kerkinana walsky]


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