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ent diameters of the stars vary appreciably during the year.
These variations of the apparent magnitude can be determined
by sighting the object between two poles placed at different intervals
in a circle and observed from the center at a constant distance.
It can also be done at a variable distance from one of the
centers of an ellipse, using poles spaced evenly on the ellipse.
is further possible that the elliptical orbits of the planets and the
sun and the moon suggested some religious laws to our ancestors
and that they found mystical meaning in the reproduction of
such lines here on earth. It is even possible they had been told to
do this long, long ago when our ancestors coming from outer
space transmitted their wisdom to earthlings.
AH the prehistoric temples, whatever their form and whether
built in stone, wood, or heaps of dirt, had but one purpose—to
measure time, long periods of time, extending over many generations.
Oral transmittance was too vague to be trusted over millenniums.
For a very long time, science ignored these temples
and the Church destroyed many of them. Now these megahthic
sites have become very popular, mostly because of the work
done by a young English archaeologist, who proved that many
of these sites are much older than any other known relic of
human civilization, older than the pyramids of Egypt or the
Tower of Babel. It seems that quite a few among these megalithic
sites are as old as 12,000 years, the time when Atlantis
allegedly disappeared in the ocean. It wiU take some time to
prove it, but I do not doubt that it will be done. Right now,
official science is beginning to recognize that some dolmens and
menhirs in France, Brittany, Ireland, England, Spain, Portugal,
and Morocco are 9,000 or 10,000 years old. And aU these sites are
clearly grouped around the eastern coasts of the Atlantic Ocean,
like landing sites for an invading army of refugees.
The hypothesis of the survivors of the sunken Atlantis becomes
more behevable with every day spent in exploration. First
there is the phenomenon of the Gaelic, Basque, Breton, or some
Portuguese dialects that aU resemble the dialect spoken in the
Azores and particularly in the Canary Islands, once spoken by
the Guanche people, which may be directly
language spoken in Atlantis. Then there is
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derived from the
the discovery of the
strange blood groups. The Basques, people of unknown origin