A 5500 year old Sumerian Star Map :
Circular Stone-Cast Tablet was recovered from underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh (650 BC), Iraq in late 19th Century CE.
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My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
Gerard Van der Leun
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Twitter-related:
The pathetic cuckolded cuck, Rod Dreher performs a valuable service by writing about something far, far more disgusting than his simping, simpering self for a change:
This is seriously sick:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/us-military-going-to-the-dogs/
Also see here:
https://twitter.com/NoVA_Campaigns/status/1601302770761760768
It sure as hell ain’t Orthodox.
Bring back gibbeting.
Oops.. Misposted. Meant for the Twitter Files thread. This doesn’t belong with the stars.
Stands alone. Beautifully, precisely incised.
You gotta wonder why the 3000BC Sumerians needed a fixed accurate picture of the night sky. They were farmers, their astronomer priest kings needed to know when it was time to plant because the rainy season is coming, so they normally tracked the sun and moon like all the other ancient civilizations. In the desert, the point on the horizon where the sun rises or sets is a very good indicator of the season.
They didn’t have watches, so they couldn’t really have closely identified local midnight, so how would they know when the stars are aligned in such a way as to indicate the start of the rainy season? They must have had a water clock or a sand hourglass or something, that when the stars are aligned as shown on the astrolabe, just after the turning of the sand hourglass, that is the day for planting, the feast day of the gods.
Still, that seems a lot of trouble compared to just tracking sunrise/sunset from the top of a ziggurat.