Culture and Cosmos is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the history of
astrology and cultural astronomy published by the
Sophia Centre Press in
partnership with the Sophia
Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, Faculty of Humanitiies and the
Performing Arts, at the University
of Wales Trinity Saint David
We are currently seeking submissions for future volumes of Culture and Cosmos.
We are currently seeking submissions for future volumes of Culture and Cosmos.
Volume 1, No. 1
An Astronomical Basis for the Myth of the Solar Hero
Robin Heath
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Abstract
Our increasing knowledge of the megalithic culture of the British Isles in
the 2nd and 3rd millennia BCE tends to confirm the proposition that
megalithic astronomers measured celestial positions with considerable
accuracy. The evidence indicates that they understood the 18.6 year nodal
period and the moon’s nine minute declination wobble. They also had
sufficient geometrical ability to re-proportion spacings between lines,
divide circles into whole number polygons and divide lines into equal
integer spacings. We should therefore ask whether there is evidence of
such early astronomy in the numbers which recur in certain myths.
