psychoceramics: Re: Egypt-Mars Connection

[Jack Lyons <r--@s--.radix.net>]

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, I M Markonuc wrote:

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:Subject:  Re: Pathfinder Anomalies
:Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 05:02:02 GMT
:From: f--@h--.com (FreekDawg)
:Organization: Arkansas.Net (501) 375-0160
:Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo, alt.conspiracy.area51, alt.alien.visitors,
:alt.alien.research

:4.      Aproximately 4000 to 4500 years ago both Cairo, Egypt and The
:Cydonia Region on Mars were facing the same constellation we commonly
:refer to as "Orion's Belt".

This sounds like Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the
Gods". Hard to summarize, but basically the Egyptian
monuments, Nazca plateau drawings, Andean temples and
Mexican pyramids are all artifacts of an unknown race of
super-people who flourished during the last ice age and
probably came from a planet in Orion's belt. Unexplained
channels in the Egyptian pyramids point to a meaningless
part of the sky now, BUT! due to the precession of the
equinoxes (rotation/yawing of our solar system) (the north
pole used to point to Vega instead of Polaris now) AND the
skewing of the earth's crust about its mass, these channels
pointed to Orion's Belt back in the crucial time period. 
Also, the liths of Egypt are actually a star chart of the
suns of Orion's belt. 

Evidence of the super-people comes from ancient anecdotal
myths of primitive people (they had motorboats for example)
and from things like the mysterious Piri Reis World Map,
made in 1513, which contained an accurate portrayal of the
coastline of Antarctica. This map is significant because (a)
Antarctica wasn't discovered until 1818 (is this true??) and
(b) the coastline of Antarctica has been under a mile of ice
for more than ten thousand years. No one can explain how
this map came to be, though Hancock asserts that the
super-people mapped it and the information managed to
survive the millenia. 

The best part about the map is this: if you make an
azimuthal equidistant projection of the earth, the things at
the center are proportionally correct but get more radially
squished as you get out to the edge.  You've seen these. So
a projection map like this showing the north pole would show
Antarctica as thinly squooshed around the perimiter. You
follow so far? 

Okay, now if you are given a *portion* of one of these maps
and were not told where the center of the projection was,
you could still extrapolate the center if you also had a
regular map of the portrayed portion. Hancock enlisted the
help of the US Army Cartographic Whatsit and extrapolated
the squooshy Piri Reis map of the (glacier-free) Antarctic
coast. It turns out that the center of this anciant
azimuthal projection of Antarctica is...

CAIRO, EGYPT.

Can't argue with trigonometry!

There's more. The book is writen well enough and doesn't
fall prey too badly to Von Daniken's style of hand-waving,
though it is sprinkled liberally with *lots* *of* *italics*. 
580 pages, it's a big 'un. Pick it up if you see it, it's an
enjoyable read. 

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