Berzerker
Deity
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-prehistoric-cave-art-reveals-ancient.html#nRlv
I'd bet money 'we' knew about precession much deeper into the past, even ~200,000+ years ago as a tribe occupying several villages in Ethiopia SW of the Red Sea. One can see it happen in a lifetime, 1 degree every 72 years. For people especially tuned into the cosmos the change would become obvious as the constellation rising with the sun on the vernal equinox would slowly sink out of sight as a new constellation gradually replaced it.
The Great Year (~25,920 years) is one full cycle of the heliacal rising of stars providing the background for the sun on its annual journey. For a star rising just before the dawn on the vernal (spring) equinox it will take almost 26,000 years for it to occupy that position again.
In Moses time the Ram symbolized the age of Aries, a thousand years earlier it was Taurus the Bull, and over a thousand years later Jesus would become the sacrificial lamb and fisher of men, Pisces was replacing Aries. This is of interest given the Sphinx has the head of a human on the body of a lion. Could it represent the transition from Virgo to Leo around 11,000 BC? Or maybe something that happened back then, like a flood accompanying the melt down ending the ice age.
If so, could the Lion-Man from 38,000 BC represent a past age of Leo? From 38,000 BC to 11,000 BC is ~27,000 years. Its close enough to consider...
On a sidenote:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0722-0
Myths about unicorns may have derived from giant Siberian rhinos that went extinct about 40 kya - recent enough to become part of our mythology. Greek myths about strange monsters may have a basis in reality, the fossils of dinosaurs could be mistaken for mythological animals like the Griffin. Lions with beaks and 3 toes sounds like an herbivore from the ceratops family.
I'd bet money 'we' knew about precession much deeper into the past, even ~200,000+ years ago as a tribe occupying several villages in Ethiopia SW of the Red Sea. One can see it happen in a lifetime, 1 degree every 72 years. For people especially tuned into the cosmos the change would become obvious as the constellation rising with the sun on the vernal equinox would slowly sink out of sight as a new constellation gradually replaced it.
The Great Year (~25,920 years) is one full cycle of the heliacal rising of stars providing the background for the sun on its annual journey. For a star rising just before the dawn on the vernal (spring) equinox it will take almost 26,000 years for it to occupy that position again.
In Moses time the Ram symbolized the age of Aries, a thousand years earlier it was Taurus the Bull, and over a thousand years later Jesus would become the sacrificial lamb and fisher of men, Pisces was replacing Aries. This is of interest given the Sphinx has the head of a human on the body of a lion. Could it represent the transition from Virgo to Leo around 11,000 BC? Or maybe something that happened back then, like a flood accompanying the melt down ending the ice age.
If so, could the Lion-Man from 38,000 BC represent a past age of Leo? From 38,000 BC to 11,000 BC is ~27,000 years. Its close enough to consider...
On a sidenote:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0722-0
Myths about unicorns may have derived from giant Siberian rhinos that went extinct about 40 kya - recent enough to become part of our mythology. Greek myths about strange monsters may have a basis in reality, the fossils of dinosaurs could be mistaken for mythological animals like the Griffin. Lions with beaks and 3 toes sounds like an herbivore from the ceratops family.
)
