Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

logically ask why, if Sirius rising was tracked for as long as two millennia or more, there are not more alignments
beyond the three major ones identified thus far. The geological sedimentation history of the playa may provide an
answer. If the earliest line “C-line” is off the playa or on fossil dune hills not affected by the late heavy playa
sedimentation period, then possibly there were a sequence of alignments to Sirius rising as Sirius’s location marched
north via precession through the playa, from the C-line megaliths to the B-line megaliths. Those alignments would be
gone or invisible now, covered by playa sediments. Only the 4500 BCE and 3500 BCE alignments survive because
they were placed after the heavy sedimentation stopped.
*22. Today the precise angular separation of Dubhe and Sirius is 93.4 degrees. Yet both Sirius and Dubhe are relatively
close to our solar system, about 8.6 light-years distant and 124 light-years distant, respectively. Thus they have a fairly
large proper motion (the apparent motion of individual stars against the backdrop of distant “fixed stars”). Combining
the best recent measures of their proper motions, we can calculate that Sirius and Dubhe are moving away from each
other at a rate of about 0.34 degree per thousand years. About 4500 BCE, then, they were separated by 91.2 degrees,
and they formed a perfect 90 degrees—a right angle—in the sky around 8160 BCE.
*23. Sirius is about 1 degree above the horizon as the sun is about 5 degrees below the horizon.
†24. When it is just under 3 degrees above the horizon and the sun is about 6 degrees below the horizon, before rising.
*25. When Sirius is about 1 degree above the horizon and the sun is about 6 degrees below the horizon.
*26. This attitude perhaps harks back to premodernity, which was characterized socio-culturally by often prerational and
fused (or predifferentiated) notions of the dualities of theory versus measurement, mind versus matter, inner versus
outer, religion versus science. Modernity is characterized by a radical differentiation of these dualities. That
differentiation is the wonderful essence of the Scientific Revolution and the Renaissance. Post-modernity, which is
only beginning to activate in our culture, is characterized by fully rational operation, a complete appreciation for the
modern and Renaissance differentiation of the inner and the outer, the spiritual and the material—and an awareness of
the value of both aspects of those dualities and a movement toward a reintegration, at a fully differentiated level, into a
new, whole conception of those dualities. Scholarly argument must still operate generally in terms of modernity,
because this is how the majority culture operates . . . on a good day, that is. Obviously, vast portions of our culture
still operate in the premodern and prerational modes.
*27. Initially we were skeptical of the sculpture’s cowlike appearance, and we suggested that because it was at the
centerpiece of astronomically oriented megalithic alignments, it too may have astronomical meaning. [See Thomas
Brophy, The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric Megalithic Astrophysical Map of the Universe (Bloomington,
Ind.: iUniverse, September 20, 2002)].
†28. There is no agreement among astrologers or astronomers as to exact beginnings and endings of the zodiac Ages. A
zodiac Age is when the vernal equinox sun resides in the sky against the backdrop of a given zodiac sign, or
constellation of stars. The beginning of an Age depends on where in the starry sky we choose to draw a zodiac sign
boundary. There may in fact be another curious correspondence to zodiac Age symbology in the Calendar Circle. We
can recall that the window of applicability of our Calendar Circle interpretation was determined to be roughly 6300
BCE to 4800 BCE. That span of time is very similar to the zodiac Age of Gemini, which immediately precedes the
Age of Taurus. Indeed, our interpretation of the circle is that it twice represents the figure of Orion, and the physical
size of the circle is 4 meters (about 13 feet)—the size of two men. If we consider the size of the constellation Orion
when it matched the stone circle, in the later date (ca. 4900 BCE), Orion is larger—when the stars are rising (north
toward the pole) on their precession cycle—and in the earlier date (ca. 16,500 BCE) Orion is smaller—when the stars
are falling (south away from the pole) on their precession cycle. Could a more subtle layer of symbology be present in
the Calendar Circle also indicating the Age of Gemini, with the burial of the cow stone marking the start of the Age of
Taurus?
*29. In Thomas Brophy, The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric Megalithic Astrophysical Map of the Universe,
using purely astronomical puzzle-solving applied to the field data and drawings, we found, partly, that the CSA and the
bedrock sculpture appeared consistent with a representative map of our Milky Way Galaxy and seemed to be an
indication of Earth’s location in the galaxy. We have noted that this solution was not connected with known cultural
archaeological evidence. Further, we asked ourselves that if somehow this representation was the meaning of the
sculpture, how could that knowledge have been acquired? It must have been attained in one of three ways: (1) through
some very ancient possession of astronomical instrumentation, knowledge of which was totally lost over the ages; (2)
through some way of perceiving the universe (such as remote viewing) that was accessible to the ancients, though we