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OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
were of 264 .fingers
each—the count of days in the lunar year,
while the north and south intervals of 288 fingers each—the
number of days in the solar year.
The same numbers are contained in the hieroglyphics in the
Tiahuanaco calendar and they are nearly the same as the figures
Bellamy and Allen arrived at in their calculations: 264 and 290
instead of 288, an error caused by the proportion that they used,
namely 10:11 instead of the 11:12 I chose because 264 and 288
divided by 24 makes 11 and 12. This proportion, by the way, expressed
as a trigonometric function of cosine, is very close to that
of 23.450 degrees, the inclination angle of our planet, which
could have been 23.556 degrees at that time.
The Tiahuanaco foot, as calculated by the dimensions of the
temple, does not correspond exactly to the local foot as I calculated
it from the geographical co-ordinates. But the difference is
only 0.000595 m, or sHghtly less than %o of 1 mm, which could
be caused by no less than four different reasons. First, it could
be that our ancestors did a poor calculation, which seems to be
out of the question, judging by all the other calculations they
made routinely and exactly. The second reason might be the altitude
or the irregularity of the local formation of the earth's crust,
which seems to bulge, giving a longer degree at Tiahuanaco than
at sea level. This deformation must have been even greater when
the big moon caused the belt around the equator. The third possibiHty
is
that Tiahuanaco was part of a large empire, and the
local degree was taken from a center 42 km further north, from a
latitude 16.07°
south. It would be really curious to find prehistoric
ruins at the latter latitude some day. The fourth and most
believable explanation is that since Tiahuanaco was built and its
calendar calculated, the equator has moved north by 23 minutes
of arc.
No matter what the explanation, the foot of Tiahuanaco of
0.297234 m is the correct value. Bellamy and Allen themselves
estimated the Tiahuanaco cubit at 0.4458 m, which gives a foot
of 0.2972 m. Another proof that these values are true is the
weight that
can be derived from the Tiahuanaco foot—26,260
gm, which is exactly the weight of 1 talent of gold or silver used
for thousands of years throughout the Mediterranean basin.