THE FOX WHO DISTURBED THE ESTABLISHED ORDER OF THINGS

"Excerpts from a Cosmogonic Myth"

By Uwe Homann

A presentation to the First Annual Conference on

"Precession and Ancient Knowledge"

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

October 15 - 17, 2004

INTRODUCTION

In recent years an increasing number of researchers in the fields of archeo- & ethno-astronomy have come to the unanimous conclusion that most of the ancient civilizations possessed an exceptional astronomical knowledge. Not only did various advanced cultures across the globe determine the length of the solar year and developed reliable calendar systems, but they were also aware about a certain celestial phenomenon, the so-called ‘Precession of the Equinox’.

While many of the famous archeological sites offer us solid evidence that ancient temple, pyramids and other buildings were designed and oriented towards the rising and culmination of certain constellations or specific stars like Sirius, there still seems to be no conclusive scientific proof that the builders actually knew about the effect of ‘precession’ or its cause. But it is not only the monuments that provide us with clues. We also find various indications among the ancient cultures, whether in their folklore, religious myth or stories of creation, which suggest a common fascination with the stars and their cyclical motion over long periods of time. Although the human mind always searches for some sort of a pattern that fits mental perceptions, for modern science such indications could at best be described as a "pattern of coincidence". In the course of our own investigations into the cause of ‘precession’, as well as the on-going astronomical observations of Sirius, we have often been asked if there exists any historical reference or confirmation for the hypothesis that our solar system is in an orbit around the Sirius system; i.e. other than our recorded transit measurements of Sirius and the physical fact that in the course of a 360-degree solar year Earth’s rotation axis "precesses" relative to the stars but not relative to the position of the Sun or other objects within our solar system. That is to say, the theory of ‘lunisolar precession’ is not even wrong.

As we know, most historical references to Sirius can be found in early Egyptian and Greek texts. But not unlike ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Native- and Mesoamerican records, only obscure fragments remain which vaguely suggest that Sirius is the "sun of our Sun". In contrast to modern astronomers, the ancient astrologers did not require an "inventory of the heavenly spaces" to comprehend the meaning of the universe. Yet for some reason they developed a precessional symbolism that seems to serve as an initiating factor to understand and evaluate our own significance in the universe we live in.

In that sense, few scientific works could offer us a better insight than the study conducted by the anthropologists Professor Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, which was published in 1965 by the Institut d’ Ethnologie in Paris, France.

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