Orion Constellation

[BK911]

Watched a show on History Channel a couple of days ago about the Orion Constellation.
It says that several ancient structures were built to mimic the constellation.



All pretty fascinating, but the most fascinating to me was the Hopi Indians.
They built villages to mimic almost the entire constellation, not just the belt.
How did they accurately measure these great distances over rough terrain?

[Tervuren]

You really wanna know an interesting one?

How did the Egyptians not leave behind smoke residue in deep chambers. What did they use for light?

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

You really wanna know an interesting one?

How did the Egyptians not leave behind smoke residue in deep chambers. What did they use for light?

They used the force.

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Aliens from Orion

[SCadaddle]

They employed those of the 2nd oldest profession:

Surveyors!

[MRM]

Orion was high in the sky when I got home last night and I stopped to admire it and thought that it is probably my favorite constellation and one of the few I can regularly identify.

It's not surprising so many ancient civilizations mimicked it. It's one of the most recognizable constellations and so easy to see that even a spatially challenged dufus like me can make it out. The stars are unusually bright and look like they were put together. Anyone who paid attention to the sky would naturally focus on Orion.

The ancient Egyptians probably used a highly refined oil that didn't leave much reside and used as little of it as possible. They didn't know about oxygen, but they understood they were working in enclosed spaces and needed to preserve their air.

[Steve Carlton]

They eat too much spinach on Orion.

[Rtrorkt]

[pwd72s]

(voice over) Could it be that....

[GH85Carrera]

We often to think that the ancients were not as intelligent as we are now. That is simple not true, they were no different than us, just saddled with lack of learning and often a very oppressive church or state religion. The Egyptians and the Greeks and Romans all built some astonishing buildings. No aliens, no supernatural magic, just the brains of home-sapiens and the hands with opposable thumbs, and a lot of hard work.

It is really amazing to me that there are still today stone age peoples living and surviving right now. No industry, and the only metals they have is from trading with the civilized world.

The native Americans were a 100% stone age people when the white man brought fantastic technology like metal cooking pots, and guns. And unfortunately a lot of horrible diseases.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

They employed those of the 2nd oldest profession:

Surveyors

Good one!!

Cheers
JB

[sammyg2]

The galaxy is on Orion's belt.

[kach22i]

Two mysterious 'secret chambers' discovered inside Egypt's Great Pyramid using cosmic rays and space particles
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-mysterious-secret-chambers-discovered-9064891


They used a combination of shafts that have been closed off and mirrors.

The special burning oil is a new one I haven't heard before.


Pyramids of Giza
The Orion Mystery
https://medium.com/@theunredacted/pyramids-of-giza-1d42ae44308a

Publishing his findings in a best-selling book in 1994, Bauval’s theory captured the public’s imagination and became a global sensation, spawning newspaper articles, documentaries and numerous other books.

Not only did the 3 pyramids match Orion’s Belt, Bauval argued that the Great Sphinx mirrored the constellation of Leo, and the monument’s alignments to the Nile matched the stars positions relative to the Milky Way.

Were the Ancient Egyptians really trying to create a map of the stars on the Earth?........................

This is where the Egyptians believed their Gods resided and it’s guardian was Osiris, the God of the dead and rebirth.

Pharoahs regarded themselves as the embodiment of Osiris on Earth and when they died they believed they would travel up to the Duat and be reborn in the afterlife.

Tellingly, Osiris was represented in the night sky by the very constellation mapped out by the 3 Pyramids of Giza — the constellation of Orion.

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Whilst traditionally described as ventilation shafts by egyptologists, this is unlikely to be their true purpose since 2 of the shafts do not connect with the exterior of the monument.

They do, however, exhibit several significant astronomical alignments that reinforce the Orion correlation theory.

[MRM]

I was just hypothesizing about the clean burning oil, Kach. I'm sure the mysteries of the pyramids will never be fully revealed.

[Nine, Frau!]

The show Ancient Aliens has a few episode on pyramids. Some say they were generating power from a chemical reaction. I wonder if we'll ever figure it out the truth?

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Nine, Frau!

The show Ancient Aliens has a few episode on pyramids. Some say they were generating power from a chemical reaction. I wonder if we'll ever figure it out the truth?

They had batteries for sure, some suspect that they were used for religious magic tricks of some kind. Artificial light? I've not seen anything on it until today, see video far below.

Ancient Batteries | MythBusters | Discovery

Discovered in the 1930s, the urn dated back to sometime between 250 B.C. and A.D. 250, long before modern batteries were invented in the 19th century. The artifact contained a copper pipe with an iron rod in its center - which could've served as the battery's electrodes - and had an asphalt cork at the top. Still inside the urn was the residue of an acidic liquid that could've provided the electrolyte element to bring the battery to life.

Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjCaehjIlo


Great Pyramid of Giza ~ Places on the planet you must see

...............at the temple of Hathor at Dendera, you can find some reliefs that resemble very closely of a modern electric bulb. The picture of the relief not only shows the bulb and the filament inside it, but also shows a long wire connected to the base of the bulb.

https://wiredweirdworld.wordpress.com/category/awesome-amazing/

The “Dendera light” is a term used to describe a supposed ancient Egyptian electrical lighting technology depicted on three stone reliefs (one single and a double representation) in the Hathor temple at the Dendera Temple complex located in Egypt.

The sculpture became notable among fringe historians because of the resemblance of the motifs to some modern electrical lighting systems. Mainstream Egyptologists take the view that it is a typical set of symbolic images from Egyptian mythology.

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Dendera light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light

The Dendera light refers to a theory regarding ancient Egyptian electrical lighting technology depicted on three stone reliefs (one single and a double representation) in the Hathor temple at the Dendera Temple complex located in Egypt. The sculpture has become notable among fringe historians because of the resemblance of the motifs to some modern electrical lighting systems.

Mainstream Egyptologists take the view that it is a typical set of symbolic images from Egyptian mythology.....................

The Djed pillar is a symbol of stability which is also interpreted as the backbone of the god Osiris.....................

Fringe view
In contrast to the mainstream interpretation, there is a fringe hypothesis according to which the reliefs depict Ancient Egyptian electrical technology, based on comparison to similar modern devices (such as Geissler tubes, Crookes tubes, and arc lamps)

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by MRM

I was just hypothesizing about the clean burning oil, Kach. I'm sure the mysteries of the pyramids will never be fully revealed.

In the case of many of the pyramids: by building your interior, then roofing over it, no lighting required unless working at night.

A lot of them also do have soot from visitors/looters.

Its the tunnel networks that were kept hidden until modern times that are perhaps a little more of a mystery. Although oil burning lamps could be it.

I was hoping to just have a little fun instead of being serious.

Because, aliens!

My dad is one of those that thinks they had arc lamps.

I do find it interesting just what things have been invented that were lost/forgotten in war/famine/migration.

The German's had movable negative air foils for competition cars that never got to production because of WWII, those ideas were lost as the engineers died, were imprisoned, or pressed into service for other countries by the end of the war. It took decades for that to get re-invented once again, and only now do we understand what some 1938/1939 drawings actually were of.

[Tervuren]

Orion is my favourite part of the sky, its over my house at night when I walk up.

The trees often block it, but I also like Ursa Major.

[Jon B]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

How did the Egyptians not leave behind smoke residue in deep chambers. What did they use for light?

Fireflies. In jars.

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The Pyramids are roughly 4500 years old. That means 2500 BC. Old Kingdom. Burial practices were a bit different earlier on than later in The Valley Of The Kings.