Graham Hancock
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Because that number 72 occurs in ancient myths all around the world and is strongly connected to this phenomenon called precession of the equinoxes, which, first of all, it changes the pole star. At the moment, the Earth wobbles on its axis, but it's a very slow wobble over 26,000 years. It changes the pole star. Now it's Polaris. In the past, it was Thuban. In the past, it was Draco.
But now it's Polaris because the extended north pole of the Earth is spiraling in the heavens and it's pointing at different bits of space over a roughly 26,000-year period, 25,920 years to be exact. One degree of precession takes 72 years to unfold. That's why the fact that the relationship of the Great Pyramid to the Earth being on the scale of 1 to 43,200 is interesting.
If it was on the scale of 1 to 57,000, I couldn't care less. But 43,200 is one of those numbers that we find in mythology and traditions all around the world. And there's very solid scholarly backing for this in a book I've mentioned to you before, which is called Hamlet's Mill by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Deschen. Giorgio was professor of history of science at MIT.
They draw attention to this, that there appears to have been a very ancient knowledge of this obscure astronomical phenomenon. which our culture attributes to the Greeks and thinks only goes back a couple of thousand years. Santillana and Van Deschen were of the view that it goes back to what they called some almost unbelievable ancestor civilization of the remote past.
You have to observe for more than one human lifetime. You've got to keep observing.
Well, you may have to observe for hundreds of years. To conclude that it's a wobble is another thing. But to conclude that the skies are changing at a regular fixed rate, that's going to take observation over a few hundred years. 72 years is one human lifetime. In that 72 years, the processional shift would be the equivalent of the width of your finger held up to the horizon. Very hard to note.
But if you extend it for several hundred years, it'll be very clear that something is going on. And what's going on is the constellation that rises behind the sun, particularly notable at key moments of the year, the summer and winter solstice and the spring and autumn equinox and the age in which we live. Of course, astrology is another one of those things that archaeologists despise.
But as anybody who follows astrology will know, we live in the dawning of the age of Aquarius. And that's because the sun on the spring equinox is, within the next 150 years, is going to move entirely out of Pisces, where it sits at the moment, and is going to move into Aquarius.
The age of Pisces, with Pisces housing the sun on the spring equinox, began around the time of Christ, about just over 2,000 years ago. And before that, it was the age of Aries. We have all this ram symbolism in ancient Egypt at that time. Before that, it was the age of Taurus, constellation of Taurus housing the sun. All of this is a process that unfolds at the rate of one degree every 72 years.
So when I find that the Great Pyramid models the earth on a scale of 1 to 43,200, which is 72 times 600, I wake up and I think this is interesting. And when I find that Angkor, one navel of the earth, is separated from Giza, another navel of the earth, by 72 degrees of longitude, that rings another bell. And I think that's something curious and worthy of exploration.
Far more detailed than most people have today.
The presence of the sky in our lives if we're living in a city is close to zero. It's not zero, but it's close to zero.
That's a beautiful way to put it. That's exactly what we are.
It was an ever-present reality. It was impossible to avoid it. That is why it's so crazy to say that the phenomenon like precession wasn't discovered until the Greeks about 2,200 years ago, because the ancients were living with those skies for thousands and thousands of years before, and they were paying very close attention to them. There's strong evidence that the constellations of the zodiac...
were not inventions of the Greeks either. I mean, in a sense, the constellations aren't inventions because they happen to be on the path of the sun. The zodiac are the constellations which roughly are in the place in the sky that the sun occupies through the course of the year. That's why we see them.
But there's increasing evidence that the Greeks inherited that and that the knowledge was very early and it may well go back into the upper Paleolithic. There's this incredible figure of Taurus in the Hall of Bulls at Lascaux Cave in France, one of those cave paintings, which shows the stars of the Pleiades above the shoulder of the bull exactly where they should be.
Well, again, you have the official position on this and you have the unofficial position. What's the official position? Well, the official position is that it's something that developed during the time of the late Mesopotamians and the Greeks. This notion that somehow there was a connection between the events in the sky and what happens to us. But I think it's much older than that.
I think the idea that the sky in some way determines our destinies is a very ancient idea, not a recent idea. And it kind of makes sense. I mean, it's weird to think this. I don't mean to be selfish to the human race, but we would not be here. No human beings would be here if it were not for that whole vast universe out there. It would be wrong to say that the universe exists so that we can be.
But the fact is we would not be. We're part of that huge cosmos. And you're right. It's forgetting that we're part of the cosmos or regarding the cosmos as something that we must conquer, which is the modern mindset, which is most unhelpful.
Well, it must come from a place where we feel connected to the universe. And we feel that the universe influences us directly. Right. Not the way we look at it at the moment as sort of something out there that doesn't mean much to us, except that we're going to conquer it with spaceships. Right. You know, and go to the moon and...
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