Similarly as day and night is caused by the turning of the Earth and the seasons are caused by the Earth's circle around the sun some antiquated societies believed there is a considerably larger cycle that impacts the ascent and fall of human advancements. History and astronomy may enable us to rediscover this cycle, a cycle said to be so tremendous it dwarfs our own planetary system yet affects our everyday lives. In The Republic Plato called it “the great year”. As i discussed previously, most historians date the rise of humanity to be around 3500 BC with the rise of Sumer and Egypt but over the last few decades it has become clear there were many ancient societies much more advanced than we are today. It is taught in school that the theory …show more content…
This cycle of the ages was given different names by different cultures. To the Greeks it was the great year broken down into four periods: iron, bronze, silver and gold, each year having distinct characteristics of manifestation. The sages of ancient India called it the Yuga cycle. The most common name for this cycle was coined by the Romans as the ‘procession of the equinox’. Ancient star watchers observed that certain constellations followed the same path in the sky as the sun. This is also seen through examination of the mayan calendars. These 12 constellations make up the zodiac and are considered the most important. Twice each year on the day of the equinox ancient astonomers realized that overtime the constellations were not in the exact place in the sky that they had been in the year before. The stars seemed to be moving backwards in the sky, a movement known as the procession of the equinox or the wobble of the earth. At the birth of Jesus the constellation Aries was becoming less dominant in the sky and the constellation pisces was moving in to take its …show more content…
This is evidenced by the destruction of the Library of Alexandria which was the last great library that held vast archives of manuscripts and books from all over the world pertaining to Philosophy, Astronomy, Health, Science, Geology, Mysticism, magic and knowledge of the spiritual world. Manly P. Hall describes it as follows in The Secret Teachings of All Ages, “This magnificent repository of knowledge was destroyed by a series of three fires. It was burned down approximately 389 AD by Julius Caesar from the order of Theodosius, also known as Theodosius the Great.” He also wrote that some books and scrolls were actually saved and until we rediscover them , “the modern world must remain in ignorance concerning many great philosophical and mystical truths. The ancient world more clearly understood these missing links – the continuity of the pagan Mysteries in Christianity.” A little piece of information not known anyone outside of the freemasons was revealed to me through a 5 hour long conversation with one of my Dad’s friends who happens to be a 32nd degree freemason. He told me that the masons actually have a great number of the scrolls of Alexandria at their disposal but only after having gone through the rigorous process of climbing the ladder of masonry(enlightenment) are you able to read all of them. This is extremely important and if they really do
Jacob, Margaret C. The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts & Fictions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
A group called the Powers had their own thrones of doom and were the “most holy gods.” They held council which shows already that order and rule was important. The Powers chose to give names to different times of the day spanning morning, afternoon and night and so on. This structure allowed for a calendar-like count of the days and years so that people could keep track of time. If the sun was visible in one position it was a certain time and they’d know that next the sun would set and then the moon would begin to rise marking the end of a
years ” (Quimby 2), since this epoch involved the fundamental evolution of mankind to the present. It is important to
There are many reasons why certain events occur. Whether it is our ancestors, culture, or underlying factor’s that bring about the event. Therefore, in order to break the cycle that has come about from these factors we must recognize what they are and then seek to control them. This is the only way we will be able to break the cycle or history repeating itself. Otherwise we may be like the Grecian and Roman Empire’s that fell because they were unable to change their ways.
The Maya elite developed a complicated calendar system. There are two main cycles in their calendar; one was made up of 260 days and the other 365. Each day is named from both the 260 and 365-day calendars. Because of this each full day name could only repeat every 18,980 days or once every 52 years.
There are many theories of hidden secrets in Washington D.C. that some people believe to be real and others to be figments of people’s imagination. The group/fraternity most associated to these theories is the Freemasons. The Freemasons have been revealed in many movies but played a larger role more recently in movies like “National Treasure” and “The Lost Symbol”. With the story lines of these movies being based off of the history of the Freemasons, it has divided people into two separate groups, believers and spectators. The believers think that the masons actually planned and hid symbols into the streets and buildings of Washington D.C. while the spectators believe that these situations just occurred and are only coincidences.
In 18,000 the civilizations had to worry about a lot more than we do today. In 18,000 people suffered diseases without medicine, draughts that left no crops to eat, natural disasters that changed the world they lived in, and invasions of others. Today we do not have to worry about much because have government that takes over a lot of things, and even though we have natural disasters they do not seem as tragic as they use to be such as wiping out complete civilizations. We cannot really predict when every single disaster is supposed to happen, we never actually really could. We do today have the extensive use of computers and such to help us research and figure it out more. It seems as though ancient civilizations, such as the Mayans, Cro-Magnons, Paleo-Indians, Celts, Romans, and Chaco-Indians, had trouble with themselves. They had a hard time adjusting to their new environments and climates, and they were unable to handle natural disasters. It seems as though the climate change, from cold to warm and vice versa really affected the ancient civilizations and droughts were extremely effective of their growth.
The Long Count calendar, also known as the astronomical calendar, (the one that caused all the doomsday panic and prophecies) was used to cover longer periods of time. The Mayans called these long periods of time the “Universal Cycle”. The Mayans believed the universe gets destroyed and is then recreated with the beginning of each universal cycle. This belief is what fuels end of the world prophecies, especially those stemming from the Mayan calendar.
The zodiac calendar is an astrological theory that divides the path that the sun seems to follow around the earth into twelve equal sections, each of which are associated with a sign, a symbol and a personality type. John Gardner embraces this astrological theme in his parallel novel, Grendel, by connecting each of the twelve chapters to its coinciding zodiac.
Our Earth is dated around 4.5 billion years old. Homo Sapiens, 250,000 years ago. In this macrocosmic time frame, our recorded history spans a mere 5,000 years. This knowledge contextualizes the limited nature of present human cognizance. Understanding human folly and wider perspectives becomes necessary in analyzing Ben Singer’s work Melodrama and Modernity, as he attempts to define modernity in contrast to this universal antiquity. Singer portrays modernity as something fluid, saying “Modernity is ostensibly a temporal concept” (Singer 17). The truth is modernity is a pattern that transcends time. Singer fancies modernity as a straight line progressing from caveman to businessman. John Anthony West, an author and Egyptological researcher
It was not up until 200 years ago that people started identifying their zodiac sign with the position of the Sun. So when a person is asked what is his or sign, the Sun was passing through on the day that person was born. This can be demonstrated on a birth chart. Our birth charts are special "sky maps" which reflect the quality of the exact moment we drew our first breath. With that first breath, we each began our own incredible hero's journey through life on planet Earth. The birth positions of the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all play their own unique symbolic roles as messengers and ambassadors of the universe.
The Scientific Revolution, perhaps one of the most significant examples of human beingsí relationship with the natural world, changed the way seventeenth and eighteenth century society operated. The power of human knowledge has enabled intellectual, economical, and social advances seen in the modern world. The Scientific Revolution which included the development of scientific attitudes and skepticism of old views on nature and humanity was a slow process that spanned over a two century period. During the Scientific Revolution, scientific knowledge enabled humans to control nature in order to improve society. With leaders such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Rene Descartes, the Scientific Revolution proves to be a crucial piece to the puzzle of understanding the effects of humansí interactions with the natural world.
It is known that in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat with the last one 7,000 years ago. This was when the modern climate era started which lead to the beginning of human civilization all
Over the course of the years, society has been reformed by new ideas of science. We learn more and more about global warming, outer space, and technology. However, this pattern of gaining knowledge did not pick up significantly until the Scientific Revolution. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the Scientific Revolution started, which concerned the fields of astronomy, mechanics, and medicine. These new scientists used math and observations strongly contradicting religious thought at the time, which was dependent on the Aristotelian-Ptolemy theory. However, astronomers like Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton accepted the heliocentric theory. Astronomical findings of the Scientific Revolution disproved the fact that humans were the center of everything, ultimately causing people to question theology’s role in science and sparking the idea that people were capable of reasoning for themselves.