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Continued from part 4...
Next on the list is Earth, meaning the Sun relative to
Earth. Since circa ~200,000 BC, the heliacal rising of stars has consistently demonstrated to stargazers that the tropical year precesses against the stars by about five-sixths of one arcminute per year or approximately one degree per 26000 solar days, i.e. 71 years 68 days on average. The ancient Mayans were superb astronomers.
They used a "Haab" intercalation interval so that 1508 haabs was commensurate with around 1507 tropical years (C.P. Bowditch, published 1906) since the value of one mean tropical year takes 365.2422 mean solar days, and one Haab equals exactly 365 days--you do the math. The very long-term Mayan average for the great year of pre- cession equals 5 times 13 Baktun, or 5 ages of the Sun.
Interesting, since Leo is the fifth sign of the zodiac.
One Baktun is 144,000 days. 13 Baktun = 1,872,000 days.
Five times 1,872,000 days equals 9,360,000 days a year of precession ergo one 360-degree sidereal gyration of
Earth's axis of rotation against the caelestial zodiac takes some 25,626 years 303 days. From this we predict one zodiacal age of precession is 2,135 years 208 days.
Cf. modern secular-religious estimates of ~2,150 years.
The Mayan long-count is undoubtedly more accurate. The well-known date of December 21, 2012 was predicted not by modern science but by ancient Mayan astronomers. It predicted the winter solstice Sun conjunct the "sacred tree" or apparent intercept of the galactic & ecliptic planes at 5 Sagittarius +0...accurate to one arcminute.
If we subtract 9360000 days from December 21 2012, the last conjunction of the winter solstice Sun was likely not too far from Julian Day -6903717, which the modern
Gregorian calendar shows as March 1, 23615 BC, clearly way off the mark...the Gregorian calendar is erroneous for long-term prediction. The Mayan calendar is better by far but how they achieved such mastery is a mystery, unless they actually observed for many, many millennia.
I believe this is how they did it, and that the Mayans and other pre-Columbian civilizations are vastly older than secular-religious archaeologists have admitted to.
By watching the precession of Earth's axis, really the whole rotating Earth, long-term prediction of sidereal- synodic-tropical cycles gained accuracy over centuries and millennia of observation. The length of solar days was always the basis for counting longer periods, such as a lunar month was some 29 1/2 days, a tropical year was about 365 1/4 days, four tropical years about 1461 days etc. Each multiple was numbered by days, months & years, by the Sun the Moon & Stars also as per Genesis.
Hence the multiples for the planets out to Saturn were referenced to Earth's solar days, lunar months and the
Earth's tropical and sidereal years. As we've seen for
Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, the sidereal motion of planets is fundamental to determining not only the position of a planet but also its sidereal year around the Sun. It is perfectly obvious that Mars, Jupiter & Saturn orbit the Sun and it is equally obvious that Mercury & Venus also orbit the Sun. Hence it follows that Earth orbits the Sun, since we can see that Mars is further away in its orbit than Earth is and Venus is closer than Earth is by its heliocentric orbit. Only the Moon sidereally appears to orbit the Earth, and the phases of the Moon show that both Earth and Moon are orbiting the Sun--in reference to the caelestial sphere. Incommensurability between Earth's tropical and sidereal years is easy to understand, yet has confounded more than a few amateur astronomers and astrologers for centuries to millennia.
In tracking the synodic and sidereal motion of planets, we are referencing all positions, that of the Sun, and the planet(s) in question, to the caelestial zodiac of the stars. We are counting in solar days independently of years at first, only later by counting fractions of years in days instead of decimal places. Thus the side- real year of Earth reveals to an observer how tropical years are slightly faster than sidereal years, as year after year we see this disparity compounding enough so that we can correctly estimate the value of precession.
The difference between a solar day and sidereal day on
Earth is dependent on the length of a sidereal year vs.
the length of a sidereal day. The faster Earth rotates sidereally, then the more solar days per sidereal year the observer will witness. The faster the Earth orbits the Sun, the fewer solar days per sidereal year we see.
Since the tilt of Earth's axis circa 200,000 BC, solar days have numbered 365 and change per year with barely
50 arcseconds per year difference between sidereal and tropical year relative to the stars to wit, precession.
That is why a solar day is slightly longer than a side- real day, since Earth's orbit makes the Sun rise later than distant stars which, comparatively, care not that
Earth orbits the Sun with its sidereal-annual parallax having generally undiscernible effect, sidereal diurnal parallax/geocentric parallax having thousands of times less effect on the apparent positions of stars--albeit planets are affected slightly more, Moon more than any- thing else. At about a quarter million miles, the Moon can appear up to a degree off from geocentric position.
End Part 5. See Part 6 For Continuation...
Daniel Joseph Min
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