Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

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