Squaring The Circle

The circle, the sun's circle was to take on special powers.
To be as the Sun God was to be as perfect as you could be.

So what if there were some special magical measurements to
go with the circle. Might not the religious elders hold more power?
At various time we know that those who were great
mathematicians could also become cult leaders.

For the ancients it seems counting started on their fingers.
From this they would have base 10. Counting their phalanges
they would find the number 12 on four fingers, adding the
thumb would give you 14 and a bit. Both hands would add
up to 28 and two bits. Close enough you might think to the
a synodic month. However for ease the cue from the moon
seems to of been taken from it's half line, first quarter or
semi circle shape. This comfortable 14 days added up to 28
days and moon calendar were not to agree with the season
for very long, the seasons needing a solar calendar.

Drawing two triangles, one facing up, another over it but
facing down gave them the Hexagon. 6 Sides or Vertices
and half of the fingers phalanges on one hand. Draw another
hexagon over the first but slightly clockwise and you have
24 sides/vertices or all the phalanges on you fingers.

If we count round the vertices of the Hexagon we get 6.
Divide these sides into 10s, our fingers, to figure at the
top now reads 60. If we now count round the vertices
of the hexagon in 60s we arrive at the top with 360.

It is from these, perhaps counter engineered, Sumerian
numbers that we have today's division in time of 60
minutes and 60 seconds.

Life and Death

To the ancients the world was as far as the nearest horizon.
Perhaps for ease, perhaps for control. It was enough that
the Sun God sail over their heads during the day, battled
his way through the underworld, only to rise again.

The underworld in this case was merely the other side
of the world. But to flat earthers' the sun was born in blood
and died in blood. For if the sun was still around, why was
the sky dark.

To reassure the young they were told stories of how successful
the sun god was at reappearing every new day, every new spring.

To reassure everyone that they had a grip on things the religious
elders would been seen with various sun god related items.
The staff and the Ankh, both could cast shadows, both could
be fertility symbols. With these religious elders in charge the
people were content that if nothing else, they were not about
to lose the sun.

Ankh

It is unlikely that the Egyptian shadow clock was called such.
Other names it has today are the L, due to the missing cross bar,
the T, after its restoration based on Borchard and the Green Schist
Shadow Clock by the one we have. We remember here that the
Egyptians had Sun Gods and it is plausible that instruments used to
measure gods path amongst the heavens were given a higher status
than the average instrument. This judge of Sun god's, this marker
of the seasons, the crops, the pagan ceremonies, this shadow clock
has the god of the day upon it. Thutmose III.

Now instruments are often known by their use, what they are
used for. Like Hammer and Nail. So it is possible that these
shadow clocks taken on the circle of the sun, or god.

This T section, with a circle on top fits the shape of the Ankh.
The symbol that Egyptian priests are seen carrying, as depicted
on temple walls.

It is thought that the T section may represent the sun's
rays or that the circle is the sun or the sign of the female.
All combine when we consider that Egyptian religion considered
the sun's birth or rebirth was tied with sunrise and spring.

With this there can be some blurring between the symbolic
Ankh and the shadow clock that measures the sun.
Some Ankh's could be clocks, some small clocks could be Ankhs.

The Gnomon Cross

Man has long relied on the sun for life and
what powers our light when it's not around,
it's stored energy from times past.

With increasing populations our ancestors
more than ever depended upon their crops
and so it became vital for these emerging
city states that they had a good growing season.

And so it was that man became so engrossed
on the seasons and the giant glowing orb in the sky,
Flying daily over their heads, east to west.


The was always a mark of time but marking of
the day had to wait for the sundial. A stick would
of been the first likely candidate to of had marks made
around it, onward and upwards to their symbolic staffs
and giant needles or obelisk.

The Egyptian shadow clock would come to contend this
role however. It had a length of base as with 6 markers,
a raised piece at one upon which lay a cross bar.

The shadow clock was aimed towards the East in the
morning and turned at noon to face West. With seasons
giving various readings more accuracy could of been had
if a Merkhet, line of sight instrument found the Pole Star
to which an etched mark could of been made with which
to the cross bar could of swung around on.