Ogygos Wrote:
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> I took a look at what the sky would look like from
> my home and noticed that between midnight 21 and
> 22 -local time(not daylight savings), two Orion
> belt stars consecutively align with the southern
> meridian

I believe this happens at least once a year and lasts for a number of days. So it's been going on for at least 4 billion years. And no, I don't think their "accurate calendar" came from Hellas.

It's just a 3 part calendar where all three calendars synch every 3600 years. It isn't unusually accurate (it can't account for leap minutes and leap seconds which means that it will get out of synch with the Earth's position.)

The Hellenes of 900 AD are pretty well documented and none of them seem to have gone to the New World.

-- Byrd
Moderator, Hall of Ma'at



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2011 11:52PM by Byrd.