"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
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> 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.
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> Wouldn't all those ancient shrines and buildings be off now due to the
> precession of the equinoxes?
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> --Lia
>

I'm not sure. I know precession affects the relationship to the stars, but
I'm not sure how it affects the relationship with our sun. I do know there
is still an alignment, but the time may be off from what it once was. But
then again, just like a clock that does not run still shows the correct time
twice a day, the precession cycle is every 25800 years.