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The Golden Thread of Time

The Wheel Cross allows the navigation of the planet without a time piece, the discovery of Natures mathematics and the construction of ancient sacred buildings using astrology. The philosophy behind all the great religions rest within what the cross reveals.

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ISBN 0954163907

Crichton E M Miller

The ancient scientific and spiritual wisdom that has shaped our past and still influences our future is part of a forgotten and often hidden system that reaches back beyond the current established religions, further than Ancient Egypt into an age where Mankind lived in harmony with Nature.

The work explains how a Star Cult was born of necessity, leading to the concepts of a Sun God in Heaven that still exists in fragmented form today.
How did a scientific and spiritual instrument from the stone age become hidden and lost in our full view?

The answers are here:

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Longitude

Longitude BC

The author has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Ancient mariners could determine longitude by the application of simple geometry[1] without the use of a time piece by utilise the retrograde action of the moon against the fixed stars.

Modern longitude was solved by Harrison with his invention of a sea going chronometer in the 18th Century followed by the invention of the sextant after a prize of £10,000 was set up by the British Government. Since that discovery there has been no commercial, political or academic reason to investigate other methods.

See this link Ancient Navigation for an overview of the methods of modern navigation.

For prehistoric navigators to achieve longitude by the moon required knowledge of mathematical principles found in Nature and the application of imagination and ingenuity to invent and use rudimentary tools assembled from simple sticks and stones.

The difficulty is determining which principle came first in the historical chain of events and discoveries

Astrology[2]

The first principle is to create a zodiac[3] of memorable constellations on the Ecliptic plane using animism[4] and simulacra.
The second principle is to create a second zodiac of the circumpolar stars.

Writing and recording

The third principle is to create linear symbols to record an almanac[5]

An Instrument

The fourth principle is to create a simple instrument of a scale and a plumbline that can take sidereal observations

A Prime Meridian

5. The establishment of a prime meridian where watchers or astronomer/astrologers create an almanac showing the positions of the moon at midnight at that meridian using Draconis and the Ecliptic pole against the celestial pole to determine their local midnight. See this link. Star clock

6. By using the position of the Serpent constellation Draconis to determine local midnight the navigator can establish their local time and if they are east or west of that meridian can interpolate the angular difference between the moon and the predicted decan or planet in degrees and arc minutes translating the difference into distance on the earths surface.

The Method

The only way to navigate by the moon is to work out the angular differential from a star over time and motion with the help of an almanac reference

This requires tracking the moon along the ecliptic and using certain stars in known constellations that the Egyptians called a decan of which there were 36 in one complete Zodiac to make up 360 degrees.

But that knowledge is insufficient on its own, there is a crucial requirement, an instrument of sufficient accuracy

The moon tracks over the earth at 720 nautical miles per hour and moves against the zodiac (a great circle) 30 arc minutes in 60 minutes of time during which the position of the observer has spun through 900 nautical miles on a great circle.

To find a longitude position by measuring the angular difference requires an accuracy of observation of at least 1 arc minute to achieve a longitude accuracy of 15 nautical miles at the equator reducing in proportion by latitude.

An instrument capable of sidereal measurement to1 arc minute would result in an accuracy of 7.5 nautical miles at 45ºN

The instrument required is known as the Christian Cross with a plumbline bisecting the cross bar divided into an exponential scale, see this link Sophia for a full explanation

A Sextant, octant(18th Century) or quadrant (Greek) can potentially achieve that if the latter has a vernier, but they are designed to mostly take vertical measurements and not the required horizontal ones. See this link Instrument history

Crichton E M Miller solved this problem in 1997 with the discovery of the cross and plumbline and patented the instrument in 2000 and wrote the book The Golden Thread of Time published in 2001

Is it not our fault, this obscuring of real history by the church, historians and teachers?, Have we been robbed of this knowledge as the Amerindians were?

Or is it our own fault for not thinking and seeing that which is before our eyes?

Did the absorption of the cross by Christianity with the help of Constantine in the 3rd Century obscure and block the minds of millions to the only instrument capable of keeping accurate time, designing buildings like the Pyramids of two continents and navigating the planet before the 18th Century and Harrison's chronometer?

Or was it preserved for those with eyes to see and ears to hear?

It is really in our faces now, but who else will use reason and common sense to see it?

If they do, will those in science and religion, in teaching institutions and philosophy recognise this working proof as the most important historical discovery of our time and give it the credence it deserves?

We shall see