I am purely guessing but by using the original Greek names for the Gods=Planets makes me think that Hermes = Mercury is at the bottom and working our way clockwise are Aphrodite/Venus, Ares/Mars, Zeus/Jupiter and Kronos/Saturn. I await any correction.
I wonder what Von Daniken alien actually constructed this [/sarc].
Our collective ancestors were SMART and we should be THANKFUL (Thanksgiving Day) for their very real achievements. As Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Amen to that brother. I often think about how smart and resourceful our ancestors must have been. These people figured out how to survive the Ice Age with only stone tools. I wonder how many people living today could figure out how do that?
.....If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.”.....
My precise thought. The machine, unbuildable by the Babylonians, was made by a Greek to express dynamically that which was well known but presented statically.