February 01, 2010 01:22PM
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That is exactly the point I have been waiting for somebody else to say.
Objects of reverence and objects as tools are in no way necessarily the same thing. That is why the second paragraph of my article is so important. It delineates between the two; but one must be open minded enough to understand that implication, or it will never penetrate the haze of a pseudohistorian's mindset.
For example, a reverence for cardinality does not automatically indicate a reverence for the celestial object(s) they used to align objects on the ground. People are so desperate to impose a reverence for celestial objects that they are blinded to other, probably more accurate interpretations of the physical evidence. Nobody remembers which mason's hammer was used to shape the stones for Notre Dame Cathedral. It's not important. It's a tool.
And anyone who wishes to claim the lack of evidence of star maps somehow supersedes the evidence of cookie-cutter rows and columns of stars found inscribed on the walls of the holiest of holy sites is simply arguing from a preconceived, ethnocentric solution.
A solution they cling to beyond logic, beyond reason, and most definitely,
beyond the evidence.
It never ceases to amaze me how stars can be such tiny points of light, visible only in the darkness of night, yet can blind so many people to what might actually have been going on in the Old Kingdom.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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