This is a free non-commercial tool to help people on a quest of amateur ancient calendar discoveries. Using this tool and popular online maps you can research and discover ancient calendars. It was first mentioned in my book “How to Rule the World”
Source code for Ancient Calendars Discovery Tool is in Chrome Extension folder. While effort has been made to fix all the bugs, this code is as-is with absolutely no warranty. In Chrome Browser click “Manage Extensions” and click “Load Unpacked”.
If you don’t have Chrome on your device, you can re-create the tool manually using instructions in this section. Just for fun and to spark interest in calendar discoveries you can do from your home computer, using online maps, I’ve made a Calendar Discovery plugin for Chrome browser and you can download it here (GitHub Link). The tool itself was inspired by the Sun Calc http://suncalc.net website. Remember, this is just an amateur tool and to confirm real discovery you will need to go to a specific location, uses expensive surveying LIDAR equipment, and do everything properly.
You can also make the tool yourself, you just need 6 lines, 4 of those lines are at specific angles for Winter and Summer Solstices at a GPS point of interest on the map and 2 others are just representing the North-South line and the East-West line (The Equinoxes). I usually use PowerPoint for almost everything I do, but you can use any app which allows you to draw lines and specify the exact angle of rotation for each.
First, we need a coordinates system. For the calendar, we use a clock system with 12 o’clock representing 0/360 degrees and we follow in the clockwise direction.
1. In PowerPoint or any other apps you use, place 6 vertical lines on the page.
2. Paint 2 lines Yellow color for Sunrises and Brown color for Sunsets.
3. Find GPS coordinates of the location you want to build your calendar tool for
(i.e. Giza Pyramids ~ 29.9792, 31.1342)
4. Now we need to find angles of Sunrises and Sunsets at Summer and Winter Solstices.
5. Go to www.timeanddate.com and enter GPS coordinates in Search for a place box
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@29.9792,31.1342
6. Now select calendar dates for Summer and Winter Solstice days and note Sunrise & Sunset angle.
7. For 4 lines you added in step 5 rotate them according to angles for each Solstice date and Sunrise/Sunset.
8. Assemble 4 lines in the common center point so they resemble the letter “X “
9. For the 5th line - make it horizontal, crossing the middle point of the “X”. In the end, you should get an image like this below. Your angles may vary.
10. Now take a screenshot of Maps (in Satellite mode) in GPS location you specified in step 3. Note: Make sure the map is pointing to the North (it usually is, unless you rotate it).
11. Now move the Calendar tool’s center to different spots on the map and see what connections it sees. Basically, you are trying to find what will you see if you stand at that point on Solstice day during Sunrise/Sunset. The finding is approximate, of course. If you can travel to a specific location and conduct LIDAR measurements, at least this exercise will give you a starting points. But remember small errors are acceptable as people did not have precision instruments 10,000 years ago.
Figure X. Ushtogay Square, Kazakhstan, Age: ~ 8,000BP
Here is some Nazca glyphs analysis. Each tribe of agrarians probably has a mascot and they met on the Summer solstice to celebrate a good harvest. In the spring as groundwaters rose the glyphs/mascots were probably flooded. If you stand on the hill and did see only water, it was a signal the Spring has arrived and it’s time to plant.
Figure X. Nazca Monkey
Figure X. Nazca Condor
Ancient Calendar Discovery Tool by Sergey Znutin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
