Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

Tepi is an astroceremonial concept: it is a combination of astronomical measurement and cultural-religious meaning. It
is the origin of long-term human cultural cycles and is a calendrical origin to long-term astronomical cycles. Here we
have hammered away at the purely astronomical parts of an exact date. The astronomy seems to point to Zep Tepi being
in the era around 12,000 BCE. Further, the date is associated conceptually with the culminations of Sirius and Vega,
which mark the starting point of the long-term precession cycle, or Great Year, of about twenty-six thousand years, and
with Orion’s belt, *79 which provides the sky asterism for tracking that Great Year. If Zep Tepi did refer to a more
specific date we must make more progress on understanding culturally the specific aspect of astronomy to which it was
tied. We don’t seem to have a complete answer at this time—but we have suggested some clues. Specifically, this cycle is
what we also know as the cycle of Zodiac Ages and has also been correlated to the Vedic Yuga cycle, and both of those
originated in the same general epoch. 20 Further, we have suggested that the northern culmination of the center of our
galaxy, which visually is located in the Dark Rift in the Milky Way, occurs in the same epoch, †80 may also be
monumentally referenced, and can provide a less variable calibration point, because, unlike stars, it has no proper motion.
We have seen that the Great Sphinx at Giza, gazing east to the rising sun in its namesake constellation, Leo, also comes
from around the same epoch. 21
As we have seen in chapter 6, British Egyptologist Rundle T. Clark concluded this about Zep Tepi: “[A]ll that was
good or efficacious was established on the principles laid down in the ‘First Time’—which was, therefore, a golden age
of absolute perfection.” 22 If the Vedic Yuga cycle is properly calibrated to the precession cycle in the same way, then we
can conclude that Zep Tepi was coincident with the center of the Satya Yuga, which the Vedas identified as the perfect
time or golden age of humanity. Here we trace the physical archaeological and astro-ceremonial evidence to identify that
the ancients themselves placed that golden age in the epoch around 12,000 BCE. The question of whether there could be
some mechanism that actually does connect the astrophysical cycle to the cultural development of humans is a subject
beyond the scope of this book.