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Prehistoric cave art reveals complex astronomy


Cave paintings could be more than just art



Researchers have discovered that ancient cave paintings in Europe depict star constellations and were used to keep track of astronomical events. Archaeologists believe the artwork shows that humans had a complex understanding of time and space thousands of years before the ancient Greeks, who are credited with the first studies of astronomy. Other artifacts, like a pillar from Turkey's Gobekli Tepe and Germany's Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave, are also believed to have celestial meaning.

After studying previously known cave paintings depicting animals across Spain, France, Turkey, and Germany, two researchers realized the illustrations weren't just drawings of nearby wildlife. The art, which includes drawings of bulls, rams, leopards, scorpions, and fish, actually represents constellations of stars in the night sky, they said. Martin Sweatman and Alistair Coombs from the Universities of Edinburgh and Kent published their findings in the Athens Journal of History last month (Nov.27). https://goo.gl/Qnfm9i



The  conjunction of planets are one of the many stellar phenomena that mundane astrologers keep a track of since they influence events on earth. On November 26 just a day before the researchers published their findings, the Sun conjoined Jupiter in ecliptic longitude in tropical Sagittarius [3sa56]. At Edinburgh, the Sun-Jupiter-Mercury conjunction (a combination associated with research and research institutions) squares Mars-Neptune on the IC making this configuration significant for the place. The IC or the 4th house is linked to history and the deep past.  About the stars in this area, Diana Rosenberg writes:

Despite their pragmatism and devotion to logic, as with the previous set of stars (part of the same ancient lunar mansions) they are nevertheless drawn to mystery, magic, mysticism and the supernatural; anything deep intrigues them: the deep past, the deep mysteries, deep earth, deep sources.

She goes on to attribute this area to “scientific and technological achievements and revolutions”.
More specifically, at the exact time of the Sun-Jupiter conjunction, the meridian at Edinburgh was occupied by 8 Virgo-Pisces. ), Diana Rosenberg[1] links the stars on the MC (8 Virgo) with “discoveries of ancient art and artifacts” and gives the following examples:

Venus and the South Node were here when the Trois Freres Cave with historic art was discovered in the Pyrenees, Mars at the 1985 Libra Ingress when an underwater cave with prehistoric art was discovered off Cape Morgiou, South of Marseilles and in 2000 a speleologist discovered the 25,000 year old Cussac Paleolithic cave etchings among others.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg

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