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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