--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The precession of the earth's axis causes the cardinal > directions to slowly shift about 1 degree every 72 > years. In moves in a circle with an arc of approx 24 > degrees completing one cycle every 26,000 years.
This > means that if you establish "true" north, 13,000 years > later it will be off by 24 degrees. Oh no! time to > rotate the house! 13000 / 72 = 24????????? Is that the "new" math? I get 180 degrees. Which makes sense since that is half a circle --which corresponds to 13000/260000 -- half a precessional cycle. I need to better "visualize" what happens with precession. In the manttime, are you implying that in 13000 years ago the sun rose in the west and set in the east? Or that 6500 years ago it rose in the north and set in the south? (or vice versa). That was 4500 BCE. Within "recorded" history. The era of the introduction of the plough in Europe, the domestication of the water buffalo in China, and the development of beer-making. No mention, IIRC, of a north rising sun back then. If you are not implying a change in the direction of the "rising" and "setting" sun, then what is the relevance of your precessional arguments to SV? Isn't SV's key thing the orientation of buildings to the rising sun, and its course of travel? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
