Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
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4800 BCE. *11 In practice, then, the Calendar Circle could have been operational for this span <strong>of</strong> time.<br />
Figure 4.2. Orion’s belt matching a diagram <strong>of</strong> the central stones <strong>of</strong> the Calendar Circle in 4940 BCE.<br />
Figure 4.3. Diagram <strong>of</strong> Orion’s belt matching Calender Circle stones at altitude, azimuth, and date.<br />
We can note that we have now completed only half <strong>of</strong> our solution to the Calendar Circle puzzle: we have identified<br />
the function <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the sets <strong>of</strong> three upright stones. Next, we turned our attention to the other set, which was placed<br />
closer to the southern rim <strong>of</strong> the Calendar Circle. Now that it was made clear to us that Orion’s belt was the key to this<br />
prehistoric machine, we could not help noticing that the stars that make up the head and shoulders <strong>of</strong> the human figure <strong>of</strong><br />
Orion can also be correlated to these three stones, but at another, more ancient time than 4940 BCE. We calculated that<br />
the best fit for the stars <strong>of</strong> Orion’s head and shoulders was in 16,500 BCE (see p. 106). What made this fit an unlikely<br />
coincidence was also the fact the angle <strong>of</strong> the shoulder stars reached their maximum point during the autumnal equinox<br />
in the same epoch, and furthermore, in this interpretation, the brightest star in Orion, Betelgeuse, matched the position <strong>of</strong>