Thanks for bumping this thread. I will ask a question i have asked but no one has really answered.

What did the Mayans mean when they say the "Birth of Venus"? We all know that the Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012, but few people know that the calendar 5th and final period started on August 11, 3114 BC.

That date, August 11, 3114 BC is the "Birth of Venus". Why would they start their calendar and call it the "Birth of Venus"?! AT the end of each period, the world is destroyed. Each Period lasts around 5000 years and their calendar goes back almost 26,000 years. Is it a coincidence that it takes Earth 26,000 years to go "around" the constellations?

The Mayans may have got their calendar from the Olmecs. Did you know that the Olmecs have built the largest monument on the face of the earth?

The Olmecs built the Great Pyramid of Cholula which has the total volume of 4.5 MILLION cubic meters... compare that to the Great Pyramid of Giza at 2.5 million.

Guess who helped build this Pyramid? Quetzalcoatl, who is associated with Venus.

There is something to Venus that the ancients knew about.

Velikovsky based his work on claiming that myths were history. He claimed they were not stories but factual accounts of events that happened. Using this method he creates an impossible cosmology.

The scenario created by V. fails to conserve momentum, conserve energy, or both. V. suggested that Venus somehow was ejected by Jupiter. He does not claim it was a comet. It appeared to the ancients to be a comet or so he claims.

The numbers do not add up and V.'s ideas are just wrong.

In an effort to discuss more about Venus. I find it interesting that at first the Greeks did not identify the evening and morning stars as the same object. The same is true of the ancient Egyptians. The way we know this is that they gave separate names to these objects and later revised the names to identify a single object.

Maybe the reason that Venus is "missing" is due to it appearing to be 2 separate objects.

The first post mentioned that the Sumerians knew about Venus. This comes right after mentioning the

Venus tablets of Ammi-Saduqa. These tablets were Babylonian, not Sumerian.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a mention of Venus earlier than the Venus tablets which are from around 1640BC.

Originally posted by stereologist
The first post mentioned that the Sumerians knew about Venus. This comes right after mentioning the

Venus tablets of Ammi-Saduqa. These tablets were Babylonian, not Sumerian.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a mention of Venus earlier than the Venus tablets which are from around 1640BC.

I'll reply to your other posts later, but i wanted to mention this before i go to bed.

Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas think that Newgrange was built mainly to calculate Venus. They claim that instead of mainly being built to observe the Winter Solstice, it was mainly built for Venus. I believe they claimed that the Winter solstice light did not align exactly perfectly straight with the stone at the end of the tunnel. It was off by a couple of feet. They thought this was strange and i believe they claim that the light from Venus lies directly in the middle. I have Uriels Machine and i will check this out tomorrow.