Movement Of Earth
“The Earth experiences three motions: a rotation around its axis, a revolution around its sun and a gyration of its pole around the 'pole of the ecliptic.' This latter motion is caused by the tilt of the earth's pole from vertical and results in a gyration backwards of the magnetic pole around the vertical pole. This cycle takes approximately 25, 920 years to complete and is called the Precession and the Great Year. During this cycle, constellations move into alignment with the spring equinox every 2,160 years approximately. Pisces is the current constellation. Aquaria is next constellation that is rising and almost in full position.” (5)Time Frame For Development Of The Zodiac
In order for Africans to build the Temple Of Het-Heru in 3,100 BCE based on a cycle that takes approximately 26,000 years, Africans would have had to start approximately 29,000 BCE. However, in order for a pattern to be noticed, at least two complete cycles must be observed. This means, the constellations were known at least as early as 55,000 BCE. “The Ethiopian origin of astronomy is beautifully explained by Count Volney in a passage in his Ruins of Empires. He invokes the authority of Charles F. Dupuis who placed the origin of the zodiac as far back as 15,000 B.C., which would give the world's oldest picture book an antiquity of 17,000 years. (This estimate is not as excessive as it might at first appear, since the American astronomer and mathematician, Professor Arthur M. Harding, traces back the origin of the zodiac to about 26,000 B.C) In discussing star worship and idolatry, Count Volney gives the following glowing description of the scientific achievements of the ancient Ethiopians, and of how they mapped out the signs of the zodiac on the star-spangled dome of the heavens:Should it be asked at what epoch this system took its birth, we shall answer on the testimony of the monuments of astronomy itself, that its principles appear with certainty to have been established about seventeen thousand years ago, and if it be asked to what people it is to be attributed, we shall answer that the same monuments, supported by unanimous traditions, attribute it to the first tribes of Egypt; and reason finds in that country all the circumstances which could lead to such a system; when it finds there a zone of sky, bordering on the tropic, equally free from the rains of the equator and the fogs of the north; when it finds there a central point of the sphere of the ancients, a salubrious climate, a great but manageable river, a soil fertile without art or labor, inundated without morbid exhalations, and placed between two seas which communicate with the richest countries; it conceives that the inhabitant of the Nile, addicted to agriculture from the facility of communications, to astronomy from the state of his sky, always open to observation, must have been the first to pass from the savage to the social state; and consequently to attain the physical and moral sciences necessary to civilized life. It was, then, on the borders of the upper Nile, among a black race of men, that was organized the complicated system of the worship of the stars, considered in relation to the productions of the earth and the labors of agriculture. ... Thus the Ethiopian of Thebes named stars of inundation, or Aquarius, those stars under which the Nile began to overflow; stars of the ox or bull, those under which they began to plow, stars of the lion, those under which that animal, driven from the desert by thirst, appeared on the banks of the Nile; stars of the sheaf, or of the harvest virgin, those of the reaping season; stars of the lamb, stars of the two kids, those under which these precious animals were brought forth. ... Thus the same Ethiopian having observed that the return of the inundation always corresponded with the rising of a beautiful star which appeared towards the source of the Nile, and seemed to warn the husbandman against the coming waters, he compared this action to that of the animal who, by his barking, gives notice of danger, and he called this star the dog, the barker (Sirius). In the same manner he named the stars of the crab, those where the sun, having arrived at the tropic, retreated by a slow retrograde motion like the crab of Cancer. He named stars of the wild goat, or Capricorn, those where the sun, having reached the highest point in his annuary tract, . . . imitates the goat, who delights to climb to the summit of the rocks. He named stars of the balance, or Libra, those where the days and nights being equal, seemed in equilibrium, like that instrument; and stars of the scorpion, those where certain periodical winds bring vapors, burning like the venom of the scorpion.” (6)By the way, if Animists exist, current believers in the zodiac are it. See, Teaching Proverbs | Animism Definition Rejected - African Spiritual Practices Accepted
(1 - 2) Dr. Charles Finch - The Wheel of Heaven: The Astronomical Chronology of the Nile Valley
(3) Asante, Molefi Kete and Mazama, Ama Editors, "Encyclopedia Of African Religion," (2009) p. 307.
(4) Ibid., PT 2
(5) Ibid., PT 1 (paraphrased).
(6) Jackson, John G., “Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization, A Critical Review of the Evidence of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Comparative Religion: According to the Most Reliable Sources and Authorities,” (1939) https://archive.org/stream/EthiopiaAndTheOriginOfCivilization/EOC_djvu.txt , Accessed 07/23/15, paraphrased.
At Min 4:10 mentions UPT-TA (pronounced Wep-ta), a northern support like a tent pole called top of the earth.
