LEGENDS OF THE SUN STANDING STILL

This is all very interesting stuff:

I thought this was really interesting...It is important to recognise that all these stories were recorded from different locations on earth. On one side of the Earth people record that the Sun stayed in the sky, while on the other side, the stores are that the Sun stayed away.

The most logical cause of the appearance of the Sun, Moon and stars stopping in their paths, is that in fact, we stopped turning on ours. But what could cause a temporary cessation of the rotation of our globe? It has been suggested that a possibility could have been that something large affected our ordered symmetry momentarily (Such as a large celestial object). It is possible that earths rotation has been affected more than once before in the past. Velikovsky concluded that the earth was hit twice with a gap of 52 years between events. This is supported by Mayan tradition. The number off times, duration or cause of these incidents remains undetermined.

________'s comments:  I think the picture below is interesting... the feathered serpent ascends in the the spring (represents the resurrection - spring feasts) and descends in the autumn, (representing Christ's return again (Second Coming - and fall feasts).

Each face of the pyramid has a stairway with ninety-one steps, which together with the shared step of the platform at the top, add up to 365 (full-days in the solar year). The stairs also divided into nine terraces of each side of the pyramid into eighteen segments, representing the eighteen months of the Mayan calendar.

During the Equinoxes, the sun causes a shadow of a serpent on the northern steps of the pyramid. In the spring, it appears to ascend, and in the autumn it descends again (1)

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