Hi Ogygos,

> >>Read van der Waerden, Bartel. (1952/1953).
> "History of the Zodiac." (Archiv für
> Orientforschung, Volume 16, Pages
> 216-230).<<

> Thanks. I’ll see if I can find it. BTW do you know
> of any book on the market that covers this issue
> well?

Not off hand. However, here's an extract from a book by van der Waerden:

[books.google.co.uk]

and these are various papers that cite van der Waerden:

[scholar.google.co.uk]

> I am aware of Stefanides’ work but what does it
> have to do with Manias – apart from the fact that
> it revolves around geometry?

If you scroll down the page, there is a brief paragraph describing Manias' work.

> There are algorithms which give you the
> possibility of finding a number a isosceles
> triangles for example given a certain data set.
> When the data set is large – the number of
> positions is large - you are bound to find
> alignments(three sites on one line), isosceles
> triangles, or more rarely equilateral triangles.
> Depending on the outcome you judge if the sites
> were pre-planned or random. But the whole problem
> is the methodology in forming the data set. Do you
> mix in sites established in the classical era with
> Mycenaean or Neolithic sites, do you mix in cities
> with places of religious value(Delphi) etc. There
> are cases where corroborative evidence does exist
> but it has not been taken into account by the
> experts –see references in myths which have been
> dismissed as fantasy.

Do you have any specific instances of such mythical references?

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