Perfectly aligned temple casts no shadow on solstice: Modhera Sun Temple, India
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- 0:00 - A Precise Alignment
- 1:18 - Flawless Ancient Compasses
- 2:15 - The Equinoctial Points
- 4:14 - Disappearing Shadows
- 5:14 - The Summer Solstice
- 6:31 - Marks on Tropic of Cancer
- 7:16 - Accurate Ancient Calculations
- 8:13 - Moving Tropic of Cancer
- 9:43 - This is a MARKER
- 12:58 - Hidden Underground Chamber
- 14:57 - Iconography of the Sun
- 16:28 - Scientific Numbers & Symbols
- 17:50 - Conclusion
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The main structure, when a compass is placed at the entrance, exactly on a line between the rocks, it is perfectly aligned to the east–west direction, without so much as a decimal error. How was this perfection possible to achieve in ancient times? This temple is said to be at least 1,000 years old.
There are three main structures. Let us check the second structure. It is interesting because the ancient builders made specific notches at the entrances. When one puts a compass on top of them, the alignment is perfect. There is no error. This is 0 degrees north, perfect north. I have checked the entire temple’s structure everywhere, and it is flawless, no errors.
Today this kind of precision can be achieved only with advanced technology. This may seem easy if we don’t understand the history of the compass.
Today, we are able to measure the alignment with perfection using electronic devices. But going back a thousand years, archeologists and historians say humans only had primitive compasses, using loadstones or crude magnetized needles floating in liquid.
How could ancient builders achieve this level of precision without so much as a 0.01% of error?
There is an even bigger question. Not how they did it but why? Why was such a precise alignment necessary?
Why should the main chamber point exactly due east? Look at this picture taken on March 21, 2022, at sunrise. The first rays of the sun pass through the center of the entrances and shine on the main chamber altar. This phenomenon happens only twice a year, on March 21st and September 23rd. Why? What is special about these days? They are the equinoxes, the only two days when day and night are exactly equal.
They are the only two days when the sun rises exactly due east. This may be news, because we may have previously thought that the sun always rises in the east. But it does not. It keeps rising left and right, but only on these two days does it rise at zero degree east.
This is why perfect alignment to east is also called equinoctial east. What was originally inside the main chamber? There was an idol of the sun god Surya (Sol). A giant statue made of pure gold studded with diamonds once stood inside the main chamber's altar. So when the first rays of the sun fell on the idol of Surya, the entire chamber would have produced a dazzling light show.
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