reply to post by IX-777
Thanks, I don't know how I missed the link.
Looking it over, I'm seeing no evidence as to these things being even remotely this old. I see a statement that "research has been done" to
"prove" they're astronomical observatories... Which has the obvious problems I already mentioned.
There's also the practical problems - every civilization advanced enough to leave us with tangible observatories, from the Inka to the Greeks even
all the way out to Polynesia, have left behind plenty of other buildings and antiquities. Here, we only have the "observatories" - Observatories
that, wonder of wonders, happen to be identical to the kraals used by Bantu herdsmen.
I like how the website claims these buildings follow the golden ratio. They don't. Know why? Because none of these buildings are actually circular.
THAT fact alone is pretty damning to the idea these are precise astronomical edifices. It's
very easy to draw a perfect circle - all
you need is two sticks and a cord, and bingo, you have a compass to do it with.
You would think that a society advanced enough to figure out astronomical patterns would have mastered this technique... In fact mastery of this
technique is pretty much essential to an understanding of astronomy - really, you can't study the heavens if you can't figure out how to make a
circle.
MaKotami strikes me as something similar to what the Hopi do with their ruins - they take old mundane crap - winter houses in the case of the Hopi,
cattle corrals in the case of the Zulu - and then attach a bunch of woo-woo pseudomystical mumbo-jumbo to the ruins in order to rake in tourist
dollars from all the gullible white people.
You've been had