<HTML>Please stop trying to explain Krupps' position to me. I have made it abundantly clear that I understand his argument.
Again I state, I will accept it [Krupp's "argument"] if you show me how a northern shaft may target a southern star!
It is as simple as that.
If a northern shaft cannot under any circumstances be directed toward a southern star (which, of course, it cannot) then we cannot conclude from its direction or target anything regarding how the Egyptians understood the sky - except (as I stated previously) that they were capable of locating stars and pointing to them.
To draw conclusions from a "variable" which is fixed and immutable seems a basic violation of the scientific method.
Krupp's Logic is thus:
1. If A then C
2. If B then C
3. C
4. Therefore B (which is of course illogical)
Rephrased below as....
1. If Orion's Belt is duplicated on the ground and contains star shafts to northern stars, those shafts will point north.
2. If Orion's Belt is mirrored on the ground and contains star shafts to northern stars, those shafts will point north.
3. The model of Orion's belt has north-pointing star shafts.
4. Therefore, the Orion's Belt model ought to be a mirror.
The direction and target of north-facing and south-facing star shafts cannot and will not change regardless of whether Orion's belt is constructed as a duplication or as a mirror-image. Therefore, we cannot detect any descrepancy in the design based upon the direction or targets of those shafts.
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