ASTRONOMICAL SOLUTION

ROCK DRAWINGS

SAHARA AFRICA

The Drawing above shows the answer to the meaning
of the rock drawings of the Sahara.
The drawing is based on an article and photographs
by David Coulson,
Ancient Art of the Sahara,
in the National Geographic Magazine,
vol. 195, No. 6, June 1999.

These drawings are not isolated pieces of art - as is currently thought,
nor were they originally drawn at different eras or by different peoples
(unless restored or repainted). There is a common "style" to all of them.

As Richard Hinckley Allen (RHA) notes in
STAR NAMES: THEIR ROLE AND MEANING
Dover Publications, N.Y., 1963
"Before the observations of the navigators
of the 15th and 16th centuries, the singular belief prevailed
that the southern heavens contained a constellation near the pole
similar to our Bear or Wain;
indeed, it is said to have been represented on an early map or globe.

Manilus wrote: 'The lower Pole resemblance bears To this Above,
and shines with equal stars; With Bears averse,
round which the Draco twines'; and Al Biruni repeated
the Sanskrit legend that at one time in the history of Creation,
an attempt was made by Visvamitra to form a southern heavenly home
for the body of the dead king, the pious Somadatta;
and this work was not abandoned
till a southern pole and another Bear had been located
in positions corresponding to the northern,
this pole passing through the island Lunka,
or Vadavamukha (Ceylon) [Ancient geodetic point at Ceylon].

The Anglo-Saxon Manual made distinct mention
of this duplicate constellation 'which we can never see'." RHA, p. 436.

Each drawing is a simple REPRESENTATION of something
limited to the basic themes of Humans and Animals.

Moreover, this art appeared suddenly around 5000 BC,
at the period of the great Black Sea Flood
of Ryan and Pitman ( Noah's Flood ),
A new people, together with domesticated livestock,
appeared in Africa.
Such a new people, as written by Coulson,
definitely came from the North, and moved southward.

One of the first things they would have noticed
was that the heavens changed.
New stars appeared.
Beyond a certain point, there was also a south polar star.

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