By Thomas O. Mills
The thread of the constellations was very important to the builders
of the pyramid complex. They went to great lengths to create them; carve
them into solid stone and place them in the roof of the zodiac ceiling
of Dendera, in the hope that we would understand their meaning today.
In Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
Chapter XII, he explains how the Grand Gallery might have been used to
chart the constellations when the Great Pyramid was first built and the
gallery was open to the night sky.
Zodiac ceiling in the Temple of Dendera. (Courtesy author)
The slot that is deep inside the pyramid today, needed to be on a
true meridian and on a platform of solid earth to measure the precise
moment when stars, sun, planets and the moon transited this meridian in
their apparent rotation through the heavens.
Denderah
zodiac with original colors (reconstructed) [left], and with 48
constellations of Claudius Ptolemaus identified among the present 72
constellations on this Zodiac [right].
The twelve, or thirteen
constellations, could have been charted by someone looking up at the
heavens while moving up and down the slope of the gallery on platforms
like scaffolding built on the 24 oblong holes cut vertically into the
walls. There are 27 holes, cut eight to 11 inches (20 to 28cm) deep,
into the solid rock. We use a similar method in our observatories
today.
Hopi Understanding
The Hopi speak of a line or thread of time when they tell their
Creation Story. They are very concerned about the line between Orion
(Hotomkan), the Pleiades (Choochhokam), and Sirius (Ponochona) and watch
them very closely each year.
Constellation Orion as it can be seen by the naked eye. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
These three groups of stars are also very important to the Lakota
Tribe as they make up the constellation of their White Buffalo. The
Pleiades form the head, Orion the mid-section, and Sirius the tail. The
Lakota ceremonies are based on the White Buffalo arrival and departure
in the night sky.
We know that the constellations represent different periods of time
we call ages (2,160 years in length) but we do not know when an age
starts and when a new age begins or why they were created in the
beginning.
We would need a specific point, chiseled in stone on Earth, where we
could watch the constellations move one degree every 72 years along
their line or thread, something like the Sphinx. We would also need a
specific time or date on Earth’s path to do the job correctly, something
like the winter solstice, on December 21st, when the new initiates
arrive and the Hopi Ceremonial Cycle begins.
Valley of the Kings
In Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River, 63 under-ground
chambers have been found in a valley known as the Valley of the Kings,
or Kings Valley, and each one has been designated as KV, 1, 2, 3, etc.
as they have been uncovered. The most famous was KV-62 where
Tutankhamun was found in four gold caskets. (Whenever I hear the number
four I think of the Hopi and their belief that this is the fourth world
or time.)
This is how the chambers are mapped today and thank you to the Theban Mapping Project for this information.
Valley of the Kings (Theban Mapping Project/Courtesy Author)
When I overlay the constellations onto the site:
Valley of the Kings with Constellations Overlaid (Theban Mapping Project/Courtesy Author)
When I first saw the outline of KV-5 in the 1998 September issue of
National Geographic, page 13, I saw a headless male figure. It is the
largest underground chamber in the Valley of the Kings with over 120
rooms. If the figure represents Orion, his spear would be pointed at
the burial site of Tutankhamun and the star Aldebaran, in the
constellation of Taurus. In the middle ages Aldebaran was called Cortauri or
The Heart of the Bull. The constellation of Orion should be located
between the Pleiades and Sirius, if I am correct. So might KV-5
represent the Creator’s young nephew mentioned in the Hopi Creation
Story?
KV-5 in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. (National Geographic)
I am not an astronomer but believe that Orion moves up and down on
the Meridian path and the constellations move on the Ecliptic Path. So
at some point in time, the Spear of Orion will meet the star Aldebaran,
the Heart of the Bull, as we move along our line or string. I believe
this moment in time was documented; in the mural and Valley of the Kings
in Egypt; in the location of the ancient ruins and villages of the Hopi
in Arizona and New Mexico, and the pyramid complexes of China and
Mexico, just for that reason.
Orion spearing the bull. (Courtesy Author)
Message Through the Ages
Could this be the moment in time when one age ends and a new age
begins? How would you leave a message that would last for thousands of
years? When will Orion’s spear hit the heart of the bull?
Many other constellations and stars are represented by the chambers
in the Valley of the Kings. Perhaps many new chambers could be found by
laying a map of the constellations over the Valley of the Kings and
searching where the constellations would be located on the ground.
Thomas O. Mills is author of The Book Of Truth – A New Perspective on the Hopi Creation Story. Mills uses his knowledge of the Hopi Ceremonial Cycles to connect ancient sites around the world.
Top Image: Deriv; The Dendera zodiac as displayed at the Louvre, and Sirius Constellation (Public Domain).
Source: Ancient Origins