![]() ![]() The circular rooms, or kivas, built by the Pueblo more than a thousand years ago at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico align with the movements of the sun, moon and stars, including solstice events. In South America, the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu in Peru, built by the Inca about 600 years ago, contains a window that on the winter solstice allows the sun to shine on a specific spot that was carved on a sacred rock at the site. Thousands of miles away at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, if you visit on the morning of the autumn and spring equinox, the sun will rise directly over the central tower of this impressive temple, engulfing the monument with a tapestry of light and shadow. What is even more interesting here is that, at this precise moment in time, the Sphinx, with the sun crowning around its head and the two pyramids on its sides, forms the image of the Egyptian hieroglyph “Akhet,” which means “horizon” or “the place in the sky where the sun rises.” (see below right image) Additionally, if you stand in front of the Sphinx on the summer solstice, you will see the sun set precisely between the pyramids of Khafra and Khufu. Located next to the pyramids, and built roughly during the same time, the Sphinx “gazes” straight at the sunrise on both the spring and autumn equinox, when night and day are equal in length. Like Stonehenge, the pyramids are thought to have been built about 5,000 years ago. This effect creates a massive mirror image or model of the sky on the ground. The Pyramids of Giza, for example, are thought by some to be earthly representations of the three stars in the constellation of Orion’s belt, with the Nile River that once flowed closer to the three pyramids representing the Milky Way as it “flows” through Orion in the night sky. ![]() The list of prehistoric sites that contain these kinds of celestial alignments and anomalies is vast. The tale of the serpent, in turn, points to the winter solstice sunrise and the coils have been shown to contain other solar and lunar alignments. Similarly, if you visit Serpent Mound near Peebles, Ohio on June 20th/21st, this time at sunset, you will see the wide-open mouth of the serpent effigy on the ground appear to swallow the sun as it sets over a hill in the distance known as Solstice Ridge, which also acts as a natural target for the summer solstice sunset when viewed from Serpent Mound. These two massive stones sit at opposite ends of the monument’s Solstice Axis, on which it is aligned, and point to the two sunrises like sights on a rifle barrel or hands on a clock. Likewise, if you return in December during the winter solstice and this time stand at the Heel Stone and look back through the center of the monument, the sun will set precisely over Stone #16 on what will be the shortest day of the year. If you visit Stonehenge at predawn on June 20th/21st (the summer solstice) and stand behind Stone #16, located just behind the center of the megalith, you will see the sun rise precisely through the center of the monument and over the Heel Stone in the distance on what will be the longest day of the year. This shows that the project was very important and meaningful to its creators. They were transported to their current location from 20 miles away and stacked on top of each other using Stone Age tools and manpower. Some of its stones weigh as much as 25 tons and are 30 feet tall. The most famous of these is Stonehenge in England, built around 5,000 years ago. After all, the same effect can often be had by simply placing poles in the ground to match celestial points on the horizon.Ī megalith, on the other hand, is a large stone or group of stones that forms a monument. O ne of the great mysteries of prehistory is why so many cultures from different parts of the world spent so much time and effort building giant megaliths, monuments and earthworks to track the perceived movements of the sun, moon and stars. ![]()
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