Calvary, "The place of the skull" ... and skull-shaped hill just outside the walls of Jerusalem where Jesus was, according to the Bible, crucified.
In previous posts I've claimed that ancient astronomers were able to precisely calculated latitudes and longitudes from very accurate observations of the movements of the moon through the night sky ... and that this knowledge was available to them prior to the building of Gobekli Tepe (a complex of stone crosses arranged in circles which was built around 10,000 BC)
A line drawn from the coordinates of Calvary to the coordinates of a site in Georgia passes through the coordinates of Gobekli Tepe.
Whilst I haven't proved it yet it seems to me that the Georgia site could possibly be the place where this knowledge first developed.
The position of the Georgia site is such that local hilltops could be used to observe the stars and the moon (and the sun).
How Jesus came to be involved in all this I've no idea ... maybe the fact that when he was "born" three wise men "followed a star" is a clue to what its all about?
The story of Jesus is, of course, a myth .... there never was such a person.
The 10th Cent AD Persian astronomer, al-Sufi made reference to mythology that described the movements of the stars Sirius and Canopus through the Milky Way that did not occur at his time ... but did between 50,000 and 25,000 BC (as has been recently calculated).
It is being claimed by some that there is evidence that there was some kind of "civilisation" way, way back tens of thousands of years ago. I'm inclined to think that there was.
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*sigh*
"Whilst I haven't proved it yet it..."
That's enough for me to stop reading.
I want some of what he's taking.
"I want some of what he's taking."
Liberties with the truth?
We just decriminalized it here today in Canada.
My grandpa was in the Calvary down around Saragossa. He had to fight them damn Apatchahees up hill both ways under a lake while hiding behind a match box with nothing but a rubber-band gun and he was outnumbered a hundret to one.
Well, the signifigance of cavalry is mostly due to it's mobile nature, when compared to footsoldiers. The first recorded use of cavalry was with chariot warfare, where the object of the cavalry was to sow disarray into enemy formations through harrasment with missile weapons. Whether or not they charged enemy formations is debated. Some ancient sources say that Darius used charging chariots against Alexander the great's forces, but some historians dispute that. The invention of the stirrup probably in Asia around 100 ce. greatly changed the role of cavalry into a heavy charge unit, because the soldier riding the horse didn't have to clinch himself with the heels of their feet to the horse's body. This allowed for heavier armor for the rider. Although the stirrup theory of feodalism is greatly debated today, there is no doubt that the stirrup revolutionized the use of cavalry in it's wake.
@Peurii: the signifigance of cavalry is mostly due to it's mobile nature
Would you agree that the most effective cavalry forces of all time were the Mongols?
That obviously depends on whether we are comparing cavalry units that existed temporally in the same space. If we were to compare just any unit of cavalry that ever existed, then the comparison would obviously be more complicated. But for their time, probably yes, they were the most effective cavalry unit, and had the most impact in their army composition.
Yeah, I can do that from my yard. I guess my yard must be special!
I keep thinking of historical figures like Custer and Pickett when I think of Cavalry. It also reminds me of Apple Pie and trips to Granny's when I was young, that woman sure could bake. And play Euchre, six handed somehow, never have figured that one out, and play with all the barn kittens and milk the cows.
Thanks to SC007 who sent along some of what mellows him and zowee!!!
SC007
Put down the pipe, and step away.