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Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island

Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island

Magli, Giulio

Paperback

AnthropologySports GeneralAstronomy & Space

Publisher Price: $49.99

ISBN10: 1493939076
ISBN13: 9781493939077
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal 'world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by 'replicating' the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with nature, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes.

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