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Tomb of Ramesses IV

 Tomb of Ramesses IV The pharaoh Ramesses IV was buried in Tomb KV2, located in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. The tombs of Ramesses II and VII are on either side. Ramesses died at the age of 27 in 1148 BC. He is connected to the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak. Coordinates 25.741530,32.602080 Description  The tomb is of similar design to others in that it has a corridor to the burial chamber with side rooms. It is thought to be about 75 metres long and declines about 10 metres from the entrance. Chamber E, as the antechamber, has stars painted on the ceiling. Chamber K is built with side rooms, and the burial chamber J has a vaulted ceiling with astrological patterns along with the sarcophagus. Coptic monks were said to have lived in the tomb, and in the 19th century, explorers like Jean-François Champollion had camped there. Earlier, Romans were said to have left what is considered as graffiti in the tomb. Measurements Entrance A 14.01m by 3.66m (51.2766) Corridor B 15.17m by 3....

Kakku Pagoda

Kakku Pagoda
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Mwe Taw Kakku Pagoda was founded by the Buddhist missionaries of the Indian emperor Ashoka, in the 3rd century bc. There is a similarity of style from the newer and older Pagodas from other sites. Two white pagodas are much larger than the others, with a third outside of the complex known as Shwesandaw Pagoda. They most probably are representative and symbolic of events that occurred. This could have been the Pagan Dynasty unifying Burma in the 17 and 18th centuries with the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in 11/12th century.

Most pagodas at Kakku were built in the 17th and 18th century, the shape of the site and the largest pagoda were built in the 12th century during the reign of Alaungsithu, King of Bagan. The 2478 pagodas are said to take the shape of 'Buddha’s footprint'. The site has a cross shape at 8.5° with the horizon, 10° with vertical, and an internal cross at 4.5°, dating to 1200. By the shape formed and date, the difference in angle is 1.22° (or accurately 1.217° or 785 years) and the 4° difference of the two cross shapes suggesting 595. The larger of the crosses is 256m with the smaller at 82m, a ratio of 3.122:1, the larger is split 0.46:1 to 0.53:1 across the length (although the smaller extends another 60m towards the river). These numbers suggest obliquity and tilt as a connection (roughly) 1.5° north and 1.22° tilt difference.

The numbers also suggest a 0.05° and 0.02° error offset. This could suggest 10°+1.5°+0.05° north and 8.5°+1.22-0.02° east. 11.55° North 9.70° east. A gnomon of 1km and a difference of angle of 0.05° would equate to 0.873m difference, and an angle of 0.02° would equate to 0.349m.

Coordinates 20.445283,97.139725

Is there an astrological connection? In the constellation Cetus there is a star Zeta Ceti, a 25 solar radii sun at a distance of 235ly with a drift of -0.0103°/1000 years also θ Ceti an orange 10 solar radii sun at a distance of 113ly, with a drift of -0.0573694°/1000 years. 785 years equating to 1.21675°. The constellation itself spans between +10° / -10° about the equator.
Zeta Ceti -10.33504
Drift 785 years=-0.0081225°
(-10.33504-1.21675)+0.0081225=-11.5436°
A difference of 204m for 1000m

θ Ceti -8.183256
Drift 785 years=-0.04503°
(-8.183256-1.21675)+0.04503=-9.355°
A difference of 167m for 1000m

NGC 1042 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. (-8.433611-1.21675)=-9.650° A difference of 170m for 1000m

Other stars
These stars are below the equator. Other possibilities are Omicron Piscium, a binary star in the constellation of Pisces.
Right ascension 01h 45m 23.63185s
Declination +09° 09′ 27.8530″
This is an angle of 9.157737°.
(9.157737-1.21675)+0.00857=7.949°

Zeta Piscium
Right ascension 01h 13m 45.17477s
Declination +07° 34′ 31.2745″ -55.69
(7.575354-1.21675)+0.0121=6.370°

Epsilon Piscium
Right ascension 01h 02m 56.60862s
Declination +07° 53′ 24.4855″ +25.59
(7.890135-1.21675)-0.00558=6.668°

Delta Piscium
Right ascension 00h 48m 40.94433s
Declination +07° 35′ 06.2926″ -49.58
(7.890135-1.21675)+0.0108=6.684°

Shwesandaw Pagoda is a Buddhist pagoda located in Bagan, Burma, alongside Kakku Pagodas. It was built just after the Law Ka Ou Shaung buildings in 1057. Both Shwesandaw Pagoda and Law Ka Ou Shaung were built from brick, but Shwesandaw Pagoda is part plaster. This would have been painted alternating white/red, giving it a much brighter appearance. It has a height of 328’ but could not include the ‘hti’ so-called stone, which was dislodged by an earthquake in 1975. Aligned at 20° currently and 21.4384° when built.

Assuming that the number was made up of max tilt and obliquity, the rest would be 0.235, which could be tilt at 23.5° or 235s of a sidereal day (20, 1.2, 0.235). The ratio of numbers from the Kakku Pagodas gives a valve of 1.2, a number that can be multiplied by the height of Shwesandaw Pagoda giving a value of 120 but according to the build date it would have linked with the earlier buildings but using the 0.235 multiplied by 100 gives a valve of 23.5. This then would be tilt, max tilt, and obliquity.

The error from these numbers is 0.003. A few years either way could reduce this further and could suggest its purpose. Although still symbolic in structure and style, the alignment hints at its date of completion.


Kakku Pagodas
Zeta Ceti

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