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Originally Posted by dale_gribble
it sucks that that granite shifted.
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thats because to many white people disconcerned with the sites spiritual significance have literally trampled it down. Chaco Canyon was an indian pilgrimage cathedral like those in France and Spain. Consider this, the buildings are aligned to demonstrate several key atronomical events including the solstices, the equinoxes, and are also considered the only buildings to be aligned with the cycles and phases of the moon. BUT, the people never watched these events or the interplay of shadows that the buildings created on them, because they were inside participating in ceremonies in the many, large kavas. it baffles me that they would go to such immense effort for something that essentially remained in the mind's eye. The people knew the buildings were showing these things, but they stayed inside, sort of like going inside a dark building at dawn to meditate on the sun rise...
hopi today say the purpose of celebrating the equinox is that it is the convergence of day and night in equality, it is the bridge between day and night, light and dark, Divine and Earth, hence why they celebrated religious events at these days, sort of like Christmas.
the buildings at Chaco Canyon are like an enormous calendar, keeping accurate track of several key astronomical functions through perfect alignment. The East/West walls are perfect aligned to demonstrate the equinox, and the North/South to the solstices. The buildings lines actually bisect the NS/EW for both solstices/equinox. On the Autunmal Equinox the sun rises perfectly along Eastern walls, on the Vernal perfectly along the West. Also with the solstices along the north and south.
