Lined up with Orions Belt is that great little sprinkle of wild, flailing outrage that makes no sense whatsoever.
How could ancient people, with their better visibility of the stars and greater common understanding and reliance on their position for navigation, place things on the ground to match stars?!
But also, Orions Belt is 3 randomly bright stars in a line, not at all nearby to each other in space, that arc across the night sky every evening and change position in the night sky throughout the years. Aligned how?
Would the stars in Orion's belt even be in the same positions relative to our perception 4000-5000 years BP? I don't know enough about the astronomy side of things, but I know stars generally don't stay at a static position in the sky long-term.
Stars are not static, but slight movement is only detected after hundreds of thousands of years. Add into that the movement of the earth precession, it wobbles kind of like a top, one rotation every 10k years so that stars are not always in the same spot in our sky. This is why astrology and the zodiac symbols no longer line up with the dates allowed to them.
I don't believe in any of this BS in post but 4000 BP, people could build and align with the sky. it wouldn't be unheard of to build things that align with what they view as significant objects. they were unaware that the middle star is way farther away but so much larger it looks the same as the other two. they didn't have a detailed grasp but could ascertain some movements. No, Orions belt hasn't shifted much over the millenia. Orion's shoulder (betelguise) should explode any day now though.
Well that makes total sense to me. I thought it was well known that the speed of light as measured in metric units is actually determined by the placement of the pyramid, not the other way around.
I'm convinced that a major factor is that these people are so incredibly basic and are coping. Any amount of real math or a day of physical labor would break these people and they're not comfortable with that.
This unlocked a memory for me. Back when I was a kid I remember one of the religious whackos told us that the reason the ark of the covenant killed the dude that touched it was because it was a battery. He used the fact that there was no battery technology at the time to support the fact that god is real.
I know it's off topic, but harnessing energy reminded me.
You don't realize how much batshit stuff you're told as a kid and I never examined it as an adult. A lot of this shit is coming back to me and I'm realizing just how much of a thing all this crazy shit was even before it became widespread on the internet.
The fun part is we don't have any real evidence outside the Bible that the Ark of the Covenant even existed. Did it exist? Who knows? You can't really take the Bible's word for much.
I mean, all the Ark of the Covenant is is a box that holds the “original” (oldest version of the) Torah. So…sure, it existed. If I write a novel and put it in a cigar box and say it’s super special and has magical powers, the box and the book exist while the magic powers probably don’t.