Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Velikovsky Immanuel
Title : The Orientation of the Pyramids
Year : 1967

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A little consideration reveals that, should the terrestrial axis be turned tomorrow into a new astronomical direction by any angle of inclination toward the ecliptic, the Great Pyramid would remain properly oriented to the north and south poles; there would be a new celestial pole and, if so positioned, a new polar star, but the pyramid would remain with two of its sides aligned with the geographical poles. Should the terrestrial axis be turned by anything like 180°, north and south would change places (a hieroglyphic text quoted in Worlds in Collision, p. 107: "The south becomes north, and the Earth turns over"), but the pyramid would not be disoriented. Actually, quite a number of authors of classical antiquity refer to earlier changes in the inclination of. the terrestrial axis and to subsequent positions it took (W. in C., Part 1, Ch. 5; Part II, Chs. 7 and 8). Should the orbit undergo a change, and with it the length of the year and besides, the relative length of the seasons, or should the rotational speed change, and with it the length of the day--the Great Pyramid would remain true to the terrestrial poles. ...