Sides Decipherment of Avebury Henge Stone #9 - Its Sides Mark Stars to the Left and Right of Ursa Major and Leo

Sides Decipherment of Avebury Henge Stone #9 - Its Sides Mark Stars to the Left and Right of Ursa Major and Leo

The side of Avebury Henge Stone #9 which currently faces Avebury Stone #8 must correctly face Avebury Stone #10 while the side of Avebury Henge Stone #9 currently facing Stone#10 must correctly face Stone #8. Their false positions are the result of Avebury Stone #9 having been falsely re-erected in the year 1938. See our previous postings for coverage of that story.

Here we present our photographs of the two sides of Avebury Stone #9 and their proper astronomical decipherment as marking stars as deciphered.

Each photo of a side of Avebury Stone #9 is followed by an image showing its astronomical decipherment:

Photo 1: The Side That Faces Stone #8 but Should Face Stone #10

 Decipherment of the Side Now Facing Stone #8 that Should Face Stone #10
 

This Side of Avebury Megalith #9 Marks Stars of a Sky Region from Coma Berenices at the Galactic Meridian to Centaurus at the Galactic Equator

(the left image is a very detailed tracing performed on the photograph above using the zoom function of Paint Shop Pro graphic software, while the right image presents the figures thus found in the corresponding stars)

(click on the image to see it in original, larger size)

Photo 2: The Side That Faces Stone #10 but Should Face Stone #8

Decipherment of the Side Facing Stone #10 that Should Face Stone #8

 

This Side of Avebury Megalith #9 Marks Stars of a Sky Region from Cancer to Crater primarily Representing Hydra

(the left image is a very detailed tracing performed on the photograph above using the zoom function of Paint Shop Pro graphic software, while the right image presents the figures thus found in the corresponding stars)

(click on the image to see it in original, larger size)

These sides were more difficult to interpret than the large frontal faces of Avebury Stone #9, perhaps simply because they offer less space for carving of images. There is a bird at the throat of Hydra in the image above, which is a very old motif to which we attribute the "thunderbird" mythology in North America and which we found at the Roche Percée petroglyphs of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada, where it marks stars below Hydra and to the left of Canis Major and above Puppis (p. 148 of Volume 1 of the books cited below). Here the bird is placed further left. There will be more connections between the Old World and New World in coming Avebury decipherments.

See the cited source:

Sky Earth Native America 1 : American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy, Volume 1, Edition 2, 266 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

Sky Earth Native America 2 : American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy, Volume 2, Edition 2, 262 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

Leo the Lion Decipherment of Avebury Stone #9 - The Leo Frontal Face

Decipherment of Avebury Stone #9 - The Leo Frontal Face
(Which should be facing Henge-Outward)

please note:
Avebury Henge Stone #9 is remarkable because one can easily demonstrate that the carved shape of the stone on both frontal faces is determined by the stars in the stellar regions that are being represented. ANYONE can see this, astronomer and layman alike.

Below is our astronomical decipherment of the "Leo Frontal Face" of Avebury Stone #9. We first show our original photograph (resized and clipped), then that same photograph traced, then only the black/white tracing, then the corresponding stars via Starry Night Pro, and lastly those corresponding stars overlaid on our photograph of Avebury Stone #9 Leo Frontal Face:

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Photo Leo Frontal Face by Andis Kaulins

Astronomers! What star region in the sky forms this shape?

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Leo Frontal Face Tracing (Traced using the zoom factor in Paint Shop Pro 7 -- we trace the stones in great detail if necessary especially when we are not sure or do not know at all what figures are drawn on them and we are often surprised at the results. Here many of the lines represent less bright stars and the figures formed by areas of sky void of bright naked-eye visible stars)

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Leo Frontal Face Tracing (Results of the Tracing in Black-White Only. Because tracing is not "clean" in terms of the resulting lines we also "alias" the lines in our tracings to make the result better to visualize, which is a massive amount of work.)

• Avebury Henge Stone #9  Leo Frontal Face Corresponding Stars -- not outlined (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the underlying star Map clipped using Starry Night Pro 3.1 astronomy software, from a fitting zoom size, http://www.starrynight.com)

Can you spot the "nose" of the stone at the left?

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Leo Frontal Face Corresponding Stars -- outlined (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the underlying star Map clipped using Starry Night Pro 3.1 astronomy software, http://www.starrynight.com)  

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Leo Frontal Face Photo Overlaid with Corresponding Stars from Starry Night Pro (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the underlying star Map via Starry Night Pro astronomy software -- note that the stone almost duplicates a modern star map not only in stars but also in relative dimensions, as the modern map is a bit broader so the stars toward the right would have to be shifted a bit to the right to get almost full identity, but the difference is minimal) 

As for all stones at the main Avebury Henge Circle, stones were originally faced so that the "outer stars" i.e. Milky Way stars or stars on the Ecliptic and those below were represented on that circle facing henge-outward.

Logically then, for that system, stones marking "inner stars" toward the center of heaven, i.e. toward the North Ecliptic Pole and North Celestial Pole, were then originally placed looking henge-inward.

Since the current Leo Frontal Face currently faces henge-inward, that is wrong, and the stone must be turned so that it faces henge-outward.
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P.S. We possess newer versions of both Starry Night Pro (version 7) and Paint Shop Pro (Corel Paint Shop Pro X5), but the older versions -- i.e. SNP 3.1 and PSP 7 -- give us just what we need for our graphic-based photo research, drawing and illustration. We also use Windows Paint XP and not the newer versions of Paint, including Windows 10, which are for our purposes far less suitable because they concentrate too much on razzle-dazzle and not on the essential basics. Really, modern software is a bit like Archaeology. NEWER does not necessarily mean BETTER.

Ursa Major Decipherment of Avebury Stone #9 - The Ursa Major Frontal Face

Decipherment of Avebury Stone #9 - The Ursa Major Frontal Face
(Which should be facing Henge-Inward)

please note:
Avebury Henge Stone #9 is remarkable because one can easily demonstrate that the carved shape of the stone on both frontal faces is determined by the stars in the stellar regions that are being represented. ANYONE can see this, astronomer and layman alike.

Below is our astronomical decipherment of the "Ursa Major Frontal Face" of Avebury Stone #9. We first show our original photograph (resized and clipped), then that same photograph lightened (to permit a transparency of the stars to be imposed upon it), then the stars represented by this frontal face - first not outlined, then outlined, and lastly the transparency overlaid on the lightened photo:

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Original Photograph by Andis Kaulins

What star region in the sky forms this shape?
How about Ursa Major and the Big Dipper?

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Original Photograph (Lightened)

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Ursa Major Corresponding Stars -- not outlined (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the underlying star map clipped using Starry Night Pro 3.1 astronomy software, from a fitting zoom size, http://www.starrynight.com - corrected 8 Nov 2016 because of a labelling oversight) 

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Ursa Major Corresponding Stars -- outlined (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the underlying star map clipped using Starry Night Pro 3.1 astronomy software, from a fitting zoom, http://www.starrynight.com  - corrected 8 Nov 2016 because of a labelling oversight) 

• Avebury Henge Stone #9 Lightened Photo Overlaid with Corresponding Ursa Major Stars from Starry Night Pro - corrected 8 Nov 2016 because of a labelling oversight  (decipherment by Andis Kaulins with the overlaid star Map via Starry Night Pro astronomy software. Note that the stone almost duplicates a modern star map not only in stars but also in relative dimensions, as the modern map is a bit broader so the stars toward the right would have to be shifted a bit to the right to get almost full identity, but the difference is minimal) 

As for all stones at the main Avebury Henge Circle, stones were originally faced so that the "outer stars" i.e. Milky Way stars or stars on the Ecliptic and those below were represented on that circle facing henge-outward.

Logically then, for that system, stones marking "inner stars" toward the center of heaven, i.e. toward the North Ecliptic Pole and North Celestial Pole, were then originally placed looking henge-inward.

Since the current Ursa Major Frontal Face currently faces henge-outward, that is wrong, and the stone must be turned so that it faces henge-inward.

AND NOW,
for all the doubters out there, in the next posting we will look at the other opposite frontal face of that same Avebury Henge Stone #9, and we predict that also that face of the stone will be carved in a shape blueprinted by the stars in that region of the sky that the stone is representing. NOT ONLY THAT, but we predict that the stars there represented will be those stars directly below those represented by the Ursa Major Frontal Face, reaching from the Galactic Meridian to the Ecliptic, and thus properly facing henge-outward.
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P.S. We possess newer versions of both Starry Night Pro (version 7) and Paint Shop Pro (Corel Paint Shop Pro X5), but the older versions -- i.e. SNP 3.1 and PSP 7 -- give us just what we need for our graphic-based photo research, drawing and illustration. We also use Windows Paint XP and not the newer versions of Paint, including Windows 10, which are for our purposes far less suitable because they concentrate too much on razzle-dazzle and not on the essential basics. Really, modern software is a bit like Archaeology. NEWER does not necessarily mean BETTER.