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If Hipparchus didn't make the first measurements of the apparent size of Mars until the 2nd century BCE, how could anyone in the OK have known it?
Well now that appears to be a problem doesn't it. BUT it is a fact that the ratio of a foot to a cubit is 1.718 and it a fact that adding the bases of all three pyramids together then dividing by the total of the two smaller one's = 1.718. And it is a fact that the diameter of Mars / diameter of Mercury is 1.3932 and according to Petrie it is the distance in "inches" or the ratio I have pointed out.
So to me it appears that this is all referring to something we haven't thought of or studied yet. It appears to be a recurring ratio of sorts and Mr Rodgers has suggested the movement of The Tropic of Cancer and the time frames of The Helical Rising of Sirius ["The heliacal rising of a star is the first day when this star becomes visible again in the east in the light of dawn just before sunrise. The ancient Egyptians noticed that the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, the brightest in the night sky, would occur a short time before the annual flooding of the Nile."]
And I have suggested (based on the article just recently posted to Academia.au) that it was not the pharaohs of the 3rd and 4th dynasties who decided where to build these structures it was the priesthood based on a plan from "The First Time" or beginning of time in Egypt.
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The Egyptian Civil calendar had considerably longer-term aims. Classical historians related the Civil calendar venerated to a degree that the Pharaohs were obliged to swear an oath upon accession to never change its days or months.1 A peculiar requirement which raises two questions – why did this require a sworn pledge and who administered or required this oath? Since not Pharaoh’s predecessor it was doubtless the Egyptian Priesthood (the Priests of Isis at the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, according to Nigidius Figulus) who required the ascending Pharaoh to acquiesce for good reason
So maybe somewhere in among these wanderings of Sirius and time we might find the ratio we need.
I am still reading the paper so I don't have all the answers yet but it appears to be getting clearer.
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The position of the Tropic of Cancer is not fixed: its parallel gradually oscillates between extremes of obliquity and, since last reaching a northern latitudinal extreme in c.7500 BC , the line of the Tropic has slowly moved southwards over nine and a half millennia. Thus, one has to know where to start in time precisely where and when calendrical time began for the ancient Egyptian civilization – when the beginning of the Sothic Cycle and the Egyptian Civil calendar occurred relative to the latitudinal position of the Tropic of Cancer
And as I stated earlier. I am only finding the numbers it is up to you "experts" to tell me why I have found them.
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"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db