Don't bother copyrighting as the subject has been tackled by many authors. BTW, did you know that Kepler's gig was creating charts for astrologers to use? It wasn't about plotting courses for safe traveling of ships.
Some day human beings may evolve where they understand the larger cycles of nature and how they express themselves in society than they do today. Some astrologers believe that every time we go through heavy sunspot cycles society goes a bit nuts. Duveyoung wrote: > I like the following idea so much I'm copyrighting this piece. I haven't > been all that scholarly, but I'm convinced I'm being original and that the > below is a new idea. Er, I hope. > > Copyright Edg Duveyoung 2010 > > One fact keeps banging on my door. 200,000 years ago, the modern human brain > evolved. They were as smart as us, and that means 1% of them had Einstein > level acuity.......190,000 years before the oldest scriptures. > > With no TV et al, what did the ancients have for night time conversations? > > Think about it. > > It was the stars. And for those who would say, "Oh, so they saw some animals > in the sky, no big deal." I would ask, "Do you really think Einstein would be > satisfied with animal tales?" > > Do you think anyone could tell Old Albertgrok that a certain star in the sky > caused a certain person's personality to be a certain way? > > Nah, that would be jarring to a modern brain's logic and common sense, and > back then too. > > The precision of their measurements as proved by the various astronomical > artifacts they created, is only the BEGINNING of their ken. > > Here's my theory: > > They used the stars as their personal diary. > > How so? > > The cave paintings at Lascaux give a clue. The configuration of the animals > were PERFECT star charts -- the tips of the bison's horns being EXACTLY where > they should be. How exact? If you made the cave's rock walls transparent, > the tips of the bison's horns would be on top of, align with the > bigger-brighter stars, and so too the other key-points of the cave's artwork > would PRECISELY align with the night sky also. > > That's a huge intellectual feat, but it's only the beginning. One has to ask > why the geniuses back then went to all that trouble. > > To predict the growing season or when the bison herds would return seem to me > to be painfully trivial and not anywhere near the level of importance in > those ancient minds that it would take to motivate the cave paintings which > required a tremendous amount of "recreational time" to be expended. > > Note that it would be EASY for even a normally intelligent ancient to say, > "When the sun comes up directly over that mountain top, that's when the > planting season begins." > > There's all the precision one needs. > > One sees the sun coming up every day slightly nudged over a bit, and the moon > as if adds accents to each day's presentation, and then the stars are the > matrix-background against which the sun and moon are compared. It didn't > take a Stonehenge to know when to plant the seeds. It didn't take a cave > painting either. > > So why did they go to all that trouble? Stonehenge? Give me a break -- > that's way too much trouble to tell when to plant a seed. And, hey, they > didn't even plant seeds until 10,000 years ago, and I'm theorizing on what > the stars meant to them before agriculture. > > So, "diary," what can I mean by that? To me the following concept is big > enough and valuable enough to motivate a cave person to get his tribe to > build Stonehenge. > > First note that the human mind is DNA deep when it comes to projection. We > simply can see the contents of our mind "out there" in a direct manner. > That's our beauty.....we naturally see ourselves everywhere. > > Consider this -- if you're my age, you know where you were when JFK was shot, > or when Neil planted his boot on the moon, or whatever. Do you see that > you've got a dog-eared page in your own personal diary via that notation? > > A singularly precise moment in time is given an asterisk by you. When JFK > got shot I was __________. Everyone my age can fill that blank. > > And any moment that is important to one can be thusly dog-eared. > > Well, if you were sitting around a campfire with a giant brain, don't you > think you could as easily say, "When the bison's horn tip hit that mountain's > top, I was born." ???? Direct, simple, true, and practically valuable. > > Cave Father: "That bison's star was on that mountain's top and then moved on > to where we see it tonight -- a full hand span away from the mountain's top > now. I am a handspan old." > > Cave Son: "When was I born?" > > Cave Father: "When you were born, young one, that mountain's top had the > antelope's tail's tip upon it, and, see, it is only a finger's width from > there tonight. When it is a handspan away from the mountain's top, think of > me telling you this now, for I will be dead by then." > > Cave Son: "When the bison's hoof had just risen over that mountain, I broke > my arm, and it did not stop hurting until the hoof was between those two > hills over there." > > Cave Father: "Even now, I can see patterns in the sky that remind me of all > my life, because every time something important happened, I looked at the sky > and made its stars' positions at that moment a precise and unique image upon > which I mapped a memory. I see the horse's eye is three fingers from the > mountain's top, and when I see that mountain's top and the horse's eye, I > remember when they once touched -- that when it I decided to marry your > mother." > > Cave Son: "Father, the bear's tooth just now rose over that tree, whenever I > see the bear's tooth and tree again, I'll know how long it's been since this > night." > > Cave Father: "And on and on, by looking at the sky and remembering when > certain stars were aligned with the horizon's various mountains, I can review > my life displayed in the sky -- every moment of my life precisely timed in > hand and finger widths. I see that the elk's chin is going to be rising by > that hill's top any day now, and my father spoke of his father's father > having been born when it was six handspans away from that hill, so, see?, I > look now at your stars and in my mind I can know where they will be when I > will not have eyes to see them. The sky is personal -- everyone in our > village has a thousand stores above their heads. And the Great Soul has seen > to it that there are stars enough for a lifetime's notations." > > The above conversation would be absolutely trivial to those sky gazers. It > wouldn't take a genius, it would just take a parent and a child. > > We city dwellers don't know the night sky, do we? And our astronomers are > all busy looking beyond the human eye's ability, so who looks at the skies > now with any hint of a personal relationship? > > To me, the astrologers who would read about our lives in our astrological > charts have it perfectly wrong. > > It is us who make the stars mean. And we have forgotten how. > > >
