Can you provide a link, or do I have to drag myself over the library?

he's got his own website that you can link from..

..you shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way..

Interesting thing is that the pyramids on both sides of the Atlantic are predicated on astronomical calculations.

(* I'm waiting for someone to start on about stargate *)

I always found the similarities between the two kinds of pyramids crazy. But I suppose there doesn't have to be a connection, other than 2 people on opposite sides of the ocean having similar scientific thoughts. It happens.

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The Temple of Kulkulkan (Mayan name/version for the Aztec's Quetzalcoatl ... similar to what Romans and Greeks did with their pantheon) has 91 steps from base to top. It is a four sided stepped pyramid with a temple structure at the top. Each side has its own steps leading to the top. 91 steps x 4 sides = 364, if you add the top platform/temple level, the total goes to 365 steps. This coincides with the Mayan calendar year.

The 90 foot pyramid's foot print (square) is aligned so that its northeast and southeast corners point to the sunrise at the two solstices (Summer and Winter).

There are more architechtural features that have been designed-in to this construction to take advantage of the sun's paths to create visual effects and opportunities on the temple.

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Location of the Kulkulkan pyramid is Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza is in close proximity to Cancun. A nice little resort to which I have never been on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.


Edited by - Indy11 on 5/20/2004 8:58:14 AM

can I just nip this speculation in the bud before it gets out of hand?

the following things are to be accepted as facts..

other than general shape and size, there is NO relationship between Old World and New World pyramids. Radio-carbon dating clearly indicates many centuries and even millenia between them.

No pyramids on Earth were built by aliens.

Despite astronomical attributes that are common to many of the more spectacular pyramids and their ziggurat precursors, this does not mean they served the same function. In Egypt it was a symbolic rebirth of the Pharoah via the rising of the sun and the stars in a secret ceremnoy, whilst in Mexico it was a bloody propitiation of a gruesome god via human sacrifice. The astronomy is purely a matter of calculating date and times.

ancient societies built pyramids and ziggurats because they are the only practical structures that can reach such propertions when you haven't invented the arch or reinforced lintels. It's a logical solution reached by trial and error. In Egypt you can clearly see the evolution of pyramid design from a ziggurat inspired tomb ,through step pyramids, to the Great Pyramid at Gizeh.

Aww geee. And I was very slowly nurturing the seed for phatasmagoria too!

incidently, yucatan is aztec for 'i cant understand you '

I know what you're up to, Ed!

..you shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way..

Thanks for the link Taw. Hmm, the pyramids at Giza were designed to mimic Orion's Belt? Fascinating. I imagine that the Egyptians were great Astrologers; the early Arabs were really into that sort of thing as I recall.

Edited by - esquilax on 5/20/2004 7:26:18 PM

Orion's belt; when I first saw the pattern superimposed over a map of the Pyramids, my jaw hit the floor. It fits perfectly, including the small off-alignment and the relative magnitudes of the 3 stars has been reproduced. Even the shoulders and feet are there, because some distance away there are some small cruder pyramids which scaled down fit the Orion pattern. And the relationship of the Pyramid complex to the R Nile is exactly the same as Orion to the Milky Way.

..you shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way..