Mysteries and discoveries of archaeoastronomy: from Giza to Easter Island
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction
ix
PART
1 1
1
Thirty thousand years of silence
1.1
Twice perplexed
3
1.2
Astronomical thought in the Palaeolithic
6
1.3
An enigmatic scene
9
2
Forests of stones, rings of giants
2.1
The radiocarbon revolution
13
2.2
Stone forests
15
2.3
Spirals and mounds
18
2.4
Rings of rock
19
2.5
Picnic of the giants
24
2.6
Skara
Brae
27
2.7
From Norman Lockyer to Gerald Hawkins
32
2.8
A satisfied visage
34
2.9
Alexander Thorn
36
2.10
The legacy of Thorn s work
43
3
The island of the goddess
3.1
An untroubled sleep
47
3.2
The place of the giants
49
3.3
A Temple in the Negative
56
3.4
An alignment obviously not correlated with heavenly
bodies
57
3.5
Cart ruts
64
4
A civilization entitled to no place
4.1
Egypt of the Pharaohs
69
4.2
A primitive mathematics
75
4.3
A boring, delaying calendar
78
VÍ
Mysteries
and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy
4.4
Solar orientations of Egyptian temples
80
4.5
The stretching of the cord
83
4.6
Stellar Clocks
87
4.7
The Egyptian constellations
91
4.8
Temporary conclusions on Egypt
95
5
When the method is lacking
5.1
Babylonian astronomy
97
5.2
People who never existed, rivers that do not exist
anymore
103
5.3
The celestial empire
107
5.4
Following the God s paths 111
6
Wheels, octagons and golf courses
6.1
A land full of surprises
117
6.2
Poverty Point
117
6.3
Effigy mounds
120
6.4
Newark
124
6.5
Cahokia
129
6.6
Medicine Wheels
130
7
Straight roads, circular buildings and a supernova
7.1
The Anasazi
135
7.2
The Chacoan s main hobby
137
7.3
The Great North Road
142
7.4
Casas Grandes
145
8
The land where the Gods were born.
8.1
A place which should not exist
147
8.2
The place where time was born
152
8.3
The place where the Sun turns back
157
8.4
An ungainly, asymmetrical building
159
8.5
Urbanistic
imitation of T-north
161
8.6
Tenochitlan
164
9
The Tree of the World
9.1
The time of the flower children
169
9.2
Maya Astronomy: the calendar
172
9.3
Maya astronomy: the codexes
174
9.4
The Tree of the World
177
9.5
A building that turns the stomach
179
9.6
Astronomy and landscape in Maya cities
186
9.7
Palenque
189
9.8
A forgotten rendezvous
193
Contents
VII
10
The four parts of the Earth
10.1
The civilizations of the Andes
195
10.2
The state of the Four Parts
199
10.3
The Puma city
203
10.4
The Serpent on the Lion s head
207
10.5
The city of the lines
212
10.6
The Pachacuti Yamqui diagram
215
10.7
The Llama in the sky
220
10.8
An old town on an old mountain
222
11
The people of the lines
11.1
The people of the lines
229
11.2
The Lady of the lines
234
11.3
The enigmas of the lines
236
11.4
A lesson left on the chalkboard
238
12
The last of the lands
12.1
The last of the lands
241
12.2
The stone anchestors
243
12.3
A perplexed captain
249
PART
2 253
13
A picnic on the side of the road
13.1
Instructions not included
253
13.2
The Similaun Man
256
13.3
Creeping evolution
258
13.4
Through respect, understanding
260
14
Predicting the past
14.1
The
etic
approach
267
14.2
The humanistic approach
269
14.3
The analogical approach
271
14.4
The problem of the code
274
14.5
The discovery of precession before the discovery of
precession
277
14.6
A Corrida in the sky
279
14.7
Predicting the past
285
15
Power and replica
15.1
Three levels of cosmos, four parts of the world
289
15.2
The man who climbs the tree of the world
292
15.3
The man who opens the doors
294
15.4
The Earth and the Goddess
296
15.6
Power and replica
300
VIU
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy
PART
3 305
16
The Age of the Pyramids
16.1
From Pre-Dynastic Egypt to the Age of the Pyramids
307
16.2
The Step Pyramids
309
16.3
Meidum
312
16.4
The Geometrical Pyramids
316
16.5
Dashour
320
16.6
Giza,
Abu Roash and Zawiet
el Arian
326
16.7
The End of the Age of the Pyramids
339
17
Gateways to the Stars
17.1
Eliminating the impossible
343
17.2
The Pyramid Texts
345
17.3
Two and two makes four
349
17.4
Upuaut
351
17.5
The Gates of Heaven
355
18
On the paths of the Ancient Stars
18.1
The Rebirth Machine
359
18.2
On the paths of the ancient stars
363
18.3
Simultaneous Transit
365
18.4
The attribution of the
Giza
pyramids
368
18.5
A point to shift up, or a pyramid to shift back?
375
19
The Sacred landscape in the Age of the Pyramids
19.1
An ordered landscape
379
19.2
The horizon of Khufu
382
19.3
Orion,
Sirius
and the sacred landscape in the Age of
the Pyramids
386
19.4
Mirages from
Heliopolis
392
Appendix
1:
The Sky with the naked eye
399
Appendix
2:
Moving large stone blocks in ancient times
413
References
421
Index
439
Archaeoastronomy is the fascinating
science of the stars and the stones.
This science s main objective is to study the
relationship between celestial cycles and the
great monuments of the past to better
understand our ancestors knowledge of
astronomy and attempt to unravel their
symbolic world. If used with due caution,
this discipline yields formidable insights into
the meanings of the many wonders of the
past such as the pyramids of Egypt or the
Inca
citadels.
In Mysteries and Discoveries of
Archaeoastronomy, written in an easy-to-
follow style by an internationally
acknowledged scholar of archaeoastronomy,
the reader is guided on a worldwide tour-
from Stonehenge to Easter Island, from
Chaco
Canyon to the
Nasca
desert- in search
of both the spectacular achievements and
the surviving mysteries of this new science.
The book ends with an in-depth discussion of
the archaeoastronomy of ancient Egypt in the
pyramid age, presenting for the first time the
surprising results of the author s own recent
research into one of the most
is in the worl
the
Giza
plateau.
Giulio Magli
is a full
Professor at the Faculty
of Civil Architecture of
the
Politecnico
of Milan
where he teaches the
only official course on
archaeoastronomy ever
established in Italy. He earned a Ph.D. in
Mathematical Physics at the University of
Milan in
1992
where his research activity
originally concerned relativistic astrophysics.
But for more than ten years now his research
interests have been focused on archaeo¬
astronomy, with an emphasis on the
relationship between architecture, landscape,
and the astronomical lore of ancient cultures,
especially the
Incas
and the ancient Egyptians.
Popular Science
/
Astronomy
Mysteries and Discoveries
of archaeoastronomy
FROM
GIZA
TO EASTER ISLAND
Giulio magli
This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of archaeoastronomy
examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor
Giulio Magli
provides a clear,
up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building
fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to repro¬
duce the sky on Earth? To put at the foundation of power the ability to predict and
control the cycles of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars?
Magli
uses archaeoastronomy
as a key to understanding our ancestors way of thinking. It is a challenge which
could be called predicting the past.
The motives of the ancients have often been misconstrued, maligned, or even
dismissed.
Magli
shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in relation to astro¬
nomically based artifacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct
such magnificent structures as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the
Ceremonial Center of
Chaco
Canyon in the United States, Stonehenge in Great
Britain, and the great pyramids in Egypt.
In this book, the reader is taken on a world tour of many wonderful and enigmatic
places on almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and
lore of the sky. Then, the author discusses the fundamental ideas that he believes led
to the construction of the giant monuments. Finally,
Magli
revisits one place in
greater detail
-
Giza
-
in an attempt to provide proof for his ideas on the mindset of
ancient cultures.
This fascinating book will take you places and times far removed from our own, and
stimulate your imagination in regards to other people and other cultures. The result
will be a better understanding of who we are and where we come from.
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