All around the globe, there are depictions of what is commonly known as 'the labyrinth' - which I fancy is an ancient depiction of a disturbance of the rings of Saturn, as seen from below...when Saturn was prominent in our sky.
It wasn’t just the Egyptians. Every single ancient culture on Earth worshipped some form of Saturn as the deity. . . and also recognized Saturn as the luminary in the sky. Every single one. Why? It distinctly was not Sol they so recognized. The image they drew was either a circle with a dot in the middle, or a spoked wheel, a symbol of Saturn. Not a single culture every drew the luminary the way a school child today draws it: a circle with rays beaming down onto the Earth, until we got to the post Golden Age, such as with the later Egyptian era when Ra, Sol, the usurper, exists. Again, why?
World's oldest telescope?According to Professor Giovanni Pettinato of the University of Rome, a rock crystal lens, currently on show in the British museum, could rewrite the history of science. He believes that it could explain why the ancient Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. It is a theory many scientists might be prepared to accept, but the idea that the rock crystal was part of a telescope is something else. To get from a lens to a telescope, they say, is an enormous leap. Professor Pettinato counters by asking for an explanation of how the ancient Assyrians regarded the planet Saturn as a god surrounded by a ring of serpents?
by Dr David Whitehouse
Thursday, July 1, 1999
All around the globe, there are depictions of what is commonly known as 'the labyrinth' - which I fancy is an ancient depiction of a disturbance of the rings of Saturn, as seen from below...when Saturn was prominent in our sky.