I used to have a flintstone one of them wher you had curves and lines to draw and had to rotate to match numbers.
I loved it....
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I must be getting old.
How can you lot keep track of those teeth.
I'm gonna have to open photoshop and mark each tooth to do that
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Excellent...not sure what to make of it aside the obvious.
24 foot or 20 remen or 16 common cubit.
4x 18" common cubit = 72" fathom ????
4 x 18 = 72 x 4 = 288
I was playing around with british inch as 1296 / 10 / 2 / pi = 20.62648 being 99 units
with the 98 unit being 28 fingers and 100 units being the 700 stade of 300 version cubit per degree. It has a funny link with this 700
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Those 32 points might have lots to do with portolan as well.
Pity my eyes go screwy counting the sawtooth round the edge.
Chartres is interesting in this regard
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Hi,
I had a look at this myself...well....more stumbled upon it as a byproduct of other research.
Mick
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Bit of a bugger really. I was hoping Petrie had listed all the courses like he did for the 1ts and 3rd pyramid of Giza. I do wonder why he omitted the data for this but not for the 3rd pyramid.
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It is pretty well established.
They have lots of minor post holes on the periphery where they were tracking Major standstill of the moon within the later bank and ditch.
Several 1000 years prior to this they have 3 larger posts marking major standstill, lunar eclipse and minor standstill. The remains of these pillars are under the carpark area.
One of the later theories that looks pretty
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I think the pint Jim is making is its very, very difficult to cut a new line in such proximity without falling into the old cut. Implying speed rather then pressure or a very rigid setup.
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Reading the golden bough had a piece on an egyptian tradition of cutting up and dismembering red haired people as a sacrifice.
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Not fit for a pharaoh. Perhaps they were taken off Khufus to get Khafres done
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Quoteandbody here ever worked on a construction site with too many foremen?? LOL
I thought that was normal ?
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Perhaps the were rushed to finish ?
Perhaps they were fed up with it after 9 months?
Especially considering the slipped saw mark. Bit like letting a builder loose in a fine jewellery workshop. Tell him to get on with it and make something. I mean if it takes that long to cut surely you will have loads of time to realise you are going too deep ?
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1 drawing for you Ritva. My site will be dumped soon so you might want to keep a copy local. Hope you can follow it. You need adobe acrobat reader. Its a Free download if you dont have it.
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I see what your saying. You are right yes. The spheroid curve is insignificant over these distances.
Bad choice of words on my part.
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Dont worry ritva. You dont need to know spherical trig to use it. I just done the calcs to prove that the simple way works.
Its a simple way of finding sunrise if you want to cut up the year.
All you need is the abiltiy to find true north for your axis.
The ability to draw a circle whose center is on the axis.
Mark on the circle where the sun rises or sets on the solstice.
Then just some
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Hi,
After discussing various alignments on other threads It was pointed out by goaten about the age of heliopolis and Giza and also an approximate 45 degree alignment betwen the two based on the south east corners of the 1st and 2nd pyramid (45d 26' 50.1904" North of East. Using pyramid corners and Petries triangulation).
I remebered seeing an internal section of the great pyramid
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And no I had no preconconecived design including Letopolis.
It was part of a diagram/map in one of Mr Hancocks books including giza, letopolis and heliopolis.
It came to mind because we were discussing if there were alignments further afield.
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I was thinking more along the lines of letopolis aligned to goza as opposed to giza aligned to letopolis.
I'm on Uk time by the way. I do go out in the evenings and need sleep
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You have to be at 30 degree north for the azimuth of +-1/12th year to match the latitude of Syene. Its a spherical trig artifact if you are basing the main triangle with a
base of 8 and hypotenuse of 12 for the solstice ecliptic.
base of 5 and hypotenuse of 9 for the soltice azimuth at 30 degree north
you use 5:9 6:9 7:9 8:9 9:9 azimuth
you use 8:12 9:12 10:12 11:12 12:12 ecliptic
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I remeber seeing a drawing in soemones book who will remain nameless.
It showed letopolis in direct north south alignment with giza.
Digging around might be able to get the site coordinates from somewhere.
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Big applause. Crowds go wild. LOL ! Yes I have noticed the 3 eyes. Left right and central eye.
There is a mathematical oddity using spherical trigonometry when you try to calculate the rising position of sunrise on mathematical divions of the year. ie 1/4th 1/6th 1/8ths.
There is a pattern based on triangles.
There is a pattern based on geometry.
You can use either method to plot on the
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26d 31' 23" descending
26d 02' 30" ascending
26d 16' 40" gallery
a 2 in 1 gradient is 26d 33' 54"
mean of 26d 33' 54" and 26d 02' 30" ascending = 26d 18' 12"
mean of 26d 31' 23" and 26d 02' 30" ascending = 26d 16' 56"
Or were you talking about the shafts ????
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Never did get round to trimming those numbers
Cant beleive Ive been racking my brains wondering why there were 24 hours to the day.
Smacks forehead.
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You missed the other parts of the year Ritva.
3 seasons of 4 months
28.125 degrees At the solsices
24.095 degrees At the solstice +- 1/12th year
19.471 degrees At the solstices +- 1/8th year
13.633 degrees at the solsitce +- 1/6th year
They need to know 4 months from the solstice which is 2 months from the other solstice or
1/6th year.
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