Sacred Geometry and Spiritual Symbolism. Donald B. Carroll
declinations certainly emphasizes the significance of the trinity triangle of the North stars. The number 7 will also be seen as a significant number in ancient times representing the achievement of spiritual awareness, and its use is found in many aspects such as the seven days of creation, the seven ancient planets, the seven chakras, the seven deadly sins, the seven virtues, the seven sacraments, among others. Dr. Schoch notes that the number 7 was sacred to the Egyptians, “as a cosmic number, one that joined earth and sky.”25 The significance of such numbers being incorporated within the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge will be discussed with greater detail in Chapter 11.
By many people these facts have to be called “coincidental” in that it is not believed ancient civilizations at the time, let alone 10,500 BCE, had the ability to make such measurements, and again the ancients are not given the credit they are due with the hubristic thinking that our current civilization must be the most advanced in all aspects.
Uncannily the Edgar Cayce readings actually address this apparent remarkable ability to measure longitudes and latitudes at such an ancient date:
There were begun some memorials in the Nubian land which still may be seen, even in this period, in the mountains of the land. Whole mountains were honeycombed, and were dug into sufficient to where the perpetual fires are still in activity in these various periods, when the priest then began to show the manifestations of those periods of reckoning the longitude (as termed now), latitude, and the activities of the planets and stars, and the various groups of stars, constellations, and the various influences that are held in place, or that hold in place those about this particular solar system.
| [Author's emphasis] | 294-150 |
This is from a reading about the time in ancient Egypt and Nubia prior to the construction of the Cayce reading date of 10,500 BCE for the Great Pyramid. The earlier cited reading told of the use of stars and celestial alignments incorporated in its construction, while this readings speaks of the time such abilities were acquired, including the reckoning on longitude and latitude and eerily concur with such alignments for this ancient date!
Summer Triangle Difference in declination 10490 BCE 26
| Angular Separation | ||
| From object or point: | Deneb | |
| To object or point: | Altair |
| Difference in declination: | -11° 08’ 17.9" | 11 degrees |
| Location name: | Egypt, Cairo | |
| Location coordinates: | Lon: 031° 15’ 00" E, Lat: 30° 03’ 00" N | |
| Local time: | 02/03/10490 BC 05:10:23 AM | |
| Universal time: | 02/03/10490 BC 03:10:23 | |
| Julian date: | -2110016.36779 |
| Angular Separation | ||
| From object or point: | Deneb | |
| To object or point: | Vega |
| Difference in declination: | +21° 54’ 55.4" | 22 degrees |
| Location name: | Egypt, Cairo | |
| Location coordinates: | Lon: 031° 15’ 00" E, Lat: 30° 03’ 00" N | |
| Local time: | 02/03/10490 BC 05:10:23 AM | |
| Universal time: | 02/03/10490 BC 03:10:23 | |
| Julian date: | -2110016.36779 |
| Angular Separation | ||
| From object or point: | Altair | |
| To object or point: | Vega |
| Difference in declination: | +33° 03’ 13.2" | 33 degrees |
| Location name: | Egypt, Cairo | |
| Location coordinates: | Lon: 031° 15’ 00" E, Lat: 30° 03’ 00" N | |
| Local time: | 02/03/10490 BC 05:10:23 AM | |
| Universal time: | 02/03/10490 BC 03:10:23 | |
| Julian date: | -2110016.36779 |
For due diligence the differences of these three stars were also checked at different dates using the same program to confirm that these degree declinations were specific and unique to 10,500 BCE. The results were as follows: at 3000 BCE, Altair to Deneb was 26 degrees, Vega to Deneb was 7 degrees and Vega to Altair was 34 degrees. Measuring the declinations of 2012 AD the results yielded were: Altair to Deneb, 36 degrees, Vega to Deneb, 6.5 degrees, and Vega to Altair 30 degrees.
It has been pointed out how the stellar asterism of the “Summer Triangle,” during the period around 10,400 BCE, was a trinity of circumpolar stars. Further we saw that this triangle of “Imperishable” stars could represent the Great Pyramid itself and the immortal Benu bird. It was also shown how the differences of degrees between these three stars were 11, 22, and 33 degrees. It should be noted that even if the ability of ancient Egyptians to measure these degrees is debated, it would be well within their ability to measure the distance ratio or proportion between these three stars. Such a ratio would be, pointedly, 1-2-3.
Now looking to the southern sky using the Cybersky 5 planetarium program for this ancient time of 10,400 BCE in Egypt another triangle asterism of stars can be found. This trinity of stars we know today as the winter triangle. It consists of the stars Sirius, Procyon, and Betelguese. The Betelguese star is in the shoulder of Orion and the two other stars are separate from Orion. What is stunning is that when the differences of degrees are measured between these three stars the results are 8 degrees, 16 degrees, and 25 degrees! What this means is that, like the Summer Triangle stars, the distance ratio between them, for all intents and purposes, is also 1-2-3. It is noted that to be perfectly exact it should be 24 degrees, rather than 25 degrees.
I would like to offer my deep gratitude to author and astronomer James Mullaney FRAS for confirming for me that such ratios and proportions between the stars in each of these celestial triangles could be measured and noted in a 1-2-3 fashion with even basic instruments.
So in the sky to the north of the Great Pyramid you have a triangle of stars that match, in this ratio, a triangle of stars in the southern sky. While this is occurring around 10,400 BCE, you have the constellation Leo, the celestial lion/sphinx, coming up in the sky, due east, to face his terrestrial brother on the Giza plateau, then padding across the sky between these two triangles of stars.
Now, remembering that pyramids were considered symbolic mountains, reflect that these two starry triangles could well have shared the same meaning, but as cosmic sky mountains. At this point it is time to review the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyph djew.
The djew glyph is depicted as two rounded hills or peaks with a valley or strip of earth between them. While this sign could depict two individual peaks in any mountain range, it approximated the mountain ranges which rose on either side of the Nile Valley and also had a deeper cosmic significance. The Egyptians visualized a universal mountain split into a western peak (Manu) and an eastern peak (Bakhu) which served as the supports for heaven. The ends of this great earth mountain were guarded by lion deities who protected the rising and setting sun and were sometimes portrayed as part of the cosmic mountain itself.27
I think it is very clear that this definition of the djew is also an excellent description of what was going on in the sky above Egypt during the 10,400 BCE period, even down to the lion deities (Leo) guarding these “mountains” and “protecting the rising and setting sun” as the Leo constellation travels from east to west. It shows at this ancient time the sky was an ideal mirror for Egypt and the Great Pyramid on Earth. This concept can even extend to the theory of two triangular tablets of the Ten Commandments, which were noted earlier as giving the laws of how to act with God and how to act with fellow humans. In this stellar case the northern triangle of imperishable stars would represent the God tablet and the southern triangle of setting stars would represent the humankind tablet.
A curious paralleling between the Maya and Egyptian astronomy seems to be implied here also. These starry triangles would fit author John Major Jenkins hypothesis that the Maya, besides having a trinity of stars, consisting of three stars from the Orion constellation (one from the belt and one from each leg) on the south horizon representing the hearth and the annual birth and resurrection of the agricultural Maya maize god, that there should also be a northern