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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

one end, pulling the other.
7 The earth was already spinning when you arrived.
8 Your orders, therefore, are not to get involved in its axial rotation, but
rather to impart to it its other motion: that slow clockwise wobble
called precession.
9 To fulfill this commission you will have to push the northern tip of the
extended axis up and around a great circle in the northern celestial
hemisphere while at the same time pulling the southern tip around an
equally large circle in the southern celestial hemisphere. This will
involve a slow swivelling pedalling motion with your hands and
shoulders.
10 Be warned, however. The ‘millwheel’ of the earth is heavier than it
looks, so much heavier, in fact, that it’s going to take you 25,776
years to turn the two tips of its axis through one full precessional
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cycle (at the end of which they will be aiming at the same points in the
celestial sphere as when you arrived).
11 Oh, and by the way, now that you’ve started the job we may as well
tell you that you’re never going to be allowed to leave. As soon as one
precessional cycle is over another must begin. And another ... and
another ... and another ... and so on, endlessly, for ever and ever and
ever.
12 You can think of this, if you like, as one of the basic mechanisms of
the solar system, or, if you prefer, as one of the fundamental
commandments of the divine will.

17 Jane B. Sellers, The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt, Penguin, London, 1992, p. 205.

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