cladking Wrote:
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> At sunset the shadow (at least the penumbra)
> would be infinitely long. G3 casts a much shorter
> shadow in the picture primarily because the
> pyramid is not as tall.
Cladking, my question remains; IF the AE had felt the shadow alignment was important why wasn't Menkare's built tall enough to reach? They controlled all aspects, including size.
> It is the winter solstice which is very repeatable and marks the furthest south that the
> sun gets during the year. Every other day of the year the shadows are all pointing well
> to the east.
The summer and winter solstice are critically important to temperate climate societies, where winter is the sun's death and summer brings life and renewal and the solistace is the swing days. That's why solstice is so important to Stonehenge, Newgate, etc.
The AE had year round crop rotations, with the flooding of the Nile being the apparently critical cyclic. Is there evidence I have missed where the AE felt the solstice was critical also?
I KNOW they were aware of it, but are we mixing societal beliefs from two different societies?
Jammer