Black Genesis (cont.)
By Robert Bauval & Thomas Brophy
From Chapter 4, Section
Sirius, the Circumpolar
Stars, and Orion:
We now felt that we were
in a good position to integrate our and the CPE’s field
findings and derive from them the most robust interpretation that
fits the context of Nabta Playa. The findings that emerge from this
integrated analysis are:
1. There are at least
nine megaliths that form the three lines—A1, A2, and A3—that
point north. These track the star Dubhe in the Big Dipper over a
considerable period of time.
2. There are at least six
megaliths that form lines B1 and B2 pointing southeast. These track
the bright star Sirius at two epochs.
3. Sirius also
coordinated simultaneously with the star Dubhe in the Big Dipper so
that their alignments formed an approximate 90-degree angle. (This
curious connection also had been noted by Wendorf and Malville; they
commented that the megalith builders of Nabta Playa had “a
fascination with right angles.”)
 Left, ancient Egyptian
depiction of the Big Dipper as the Bull’s Thigh; middle, photo
of constellation; right, constellation as sculpted on the Denderah
zodiac ceiling.
This possible
simultaneous observation of Sirius in the east and the star Dubhe in
the north was of particular interest, because we know from our
studies of ancient Egypt that the very same simultaneous observation
of Sirius and Dubhe was performed in the alignment rituals of
pyramids and temples since the beginning of the pharaonic
civilization. This encouraged us to test for the simultaneous
observation of Sirius and Dubhe at Nabta Playa, where we found a
remarkably accurate and consistent repetition of this pattern of
observation. Indeed, an observer at Nabta Playa in about 4500 BCE
would have noted immediately that the stars Dubhe and Sirius could be
aligned simultaneously with megalith lines A1 and B1, for precisely
when Sirius appeared to rise on the eastern horizon and was thus
aligned with megalith line B1, the star Dubhe could be seen in the
northern sky, directly above megalith line A1…
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