[djf]

Anotherinteresting thing is that a while back, Discovery had something about the Pyramids. The Great Pyramid has a shaft that goes from the center, to the edge, and the sky is plainly visible looking up the shaft.
According to texts, the shaft is supposed to point towards "The dark spot in the sky that never moves". The final destination of the soul of whoever got entombed in the pyramid.

Trouble is, in the northern hemisphere, there's only one point in the sky that never moves. But it ain't dark. A very bright star called Polaris sits there.

[kAcknor]

kAcknor Sez:

I remember a book I read very many years ago called "The HAB Theory". I don't remember the author's name. Fiction, long winded and not enough action for the teenager I was.. ;)  

However, its main plot was that the earth's poles would periodically become so heavy with ice that the planetary wobble increased in a rapid fashion resulting in the poles swapping out with the equator.

Don't know enough to say that makes any sense in this thread, but it sure would explain tsunamis, massive bone piles, frozen mammoth with buttercups in their mouths and a 4000-mile walkabout in the direction of the magnetic pole. ;)

"bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe'" (If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.)

Have you checked the *bang_list today?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Trouble is, in the northern hemisphere, there's only one point in the sky that never moves. But it ain't dark. A very bright star called Polaris sits there.

Polaris was not the Pole Star when the Pyramids were built. (Over a period of several years, there's no point that never moves.)

[ckilmer]

I've seen some stuff on the positioning of the ancient pyraminds vis a vis the stars. from what I gather due to the recession of the equinox the relative positioning of the stars like polaris is not where it was 4500 years ago.
the roman mythra cult was dedicated to the recession of the equinox. I think the recession was first noted about 200-300 bc and it seemed like some godlike power was turning the celestial sphere to the geocentric greco romans.