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Default Happy Solstice, y'all

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> The ancients were very attuned to the sky and
> not the Playboy calendar hanging on the cave wall. If you happen to be in
> Machu Picchu during the solsitice you can see the light come in through a
> cave opening to light a shrine only for the brief time it is in alignment.
> They designed buildings around the sunrise azmuth of 65 degrees, the
> solstice at 112 degrees and the setting sun at 245 degrees. To those
> people, December 1 would not be a reasonable choice.
>
> Similar shrines exist around the word made independent of each others.



Wouldn't all those ancient shrines and buildings be off now due to the
precession of the equinoxes?


--Lia