Hermes said, “As above, so below.” Perhaps if we prove our binary motion we will understand the significance of the daily time system we inherited from the Sumerians, Egyptians, and ancient Americans. They left us a 24-period system, with two 12-hour periods of ascending (AM) and descending light (PM). During the AM hours the earth receives an expanding amount of photons until the zenith point (noon at equinox), then PM brings increasing darkness. Is this just coincidence or is this a microcosm of the 24,000-year cycle with its ascending and descending yugas of 12,000 years each? This might turn out to be the best evidence yet of an ancient knowledge of precession and the great year—and it was on our wrists the whole time!
Hardly a week goes by without an announcement that some ancient structure or astronomical artifact has been found, or some civilization is discovered to be older or more advanced than previously thought. Hancock, Bauval, West, Childress and other leading-edge thinkers are now correcting years of academic bias that filtered out anything that didn’t fit with a linear progression of history. We are learning that the Sphinx and other megalithic structures are probably much older than we first thought and they almost always align to key astronomical coordinates or reflect the patterns of the heavens. Some of these things have been noticed for years but they were almost never discussed by academics that were discouraged from straying too far from their peers.
The fact that there were numerous highly evolved civilizations all over the globe is slowly gaining acceptance, at least among the thinking public. Consequently, greater effort is now being employed to find out exactly how much the ancients knew, how widespread their cultures really were and how far back their knowledge might date. Offshore searches, better technology and the ability to communicate and access obscure data quickly over the Internet are aiding in this spontaneous collaborative process. In recent years we have found that the Sumerians engaged in brain surgery, the Egyptians used prosthetic devices and engineered structures that still can’t be duplicated today, the ancient South Americans built massive stone structures to such fine tolerances they did not require mortar, an unknown race etched out patterns on the ground that only make sense when viewed from the sky, and ancient civilizations built megalithic structures and astronomical observatories on every continent. All of these cultures seemed to have a profound knowledge of star movements as well as lunar and solar cycles. Furthermore, we know from Giorgio Santillana of MIT and Hertha von Dechend of Frankfurt University, the two brilliant scholars behind Hamlet’s Mill, that the myth and folklore of almost every ancient culture indicate they had a broad, indeed universal knowledge of the “precession of the equinox”.
Why PrecessionWhat is so important about the slow backward movement (precession) of the equinox through the constellations of the zodiac that it became the number one myth of the ancient world? Precession of the equinox is the phenomenon whereby the Sun on the day of the equinox (that day when the day and night are of equal length) rises in different constellations, changing by
about 50 arc seconds per year. At that rate it takes almost 26,000 years to “precess” (move backwards) through all twelve signs of the ancient zodiac. The Spring equinox, in Pisces for the last 2000 years, is now at the “dawning of the age of Aquarius,” meaning that Aquarius is on the verge of replacing Pisces in the sky at the point where the Sun rises on this day. Aquarius will then be in this position for about another 2000 years, until it’s replaced by Capricorn and so on. Precession proceeds so slowly, about one degree per 72 years, that it takes very patient observation to notice this subtle astronomical phenomenon. A megalithic structure, with its large fixed stones, is an ideal vantage point for observing this slow movement of the stars from year to year, and ancient cultures certainly had many of these “observation” structures.
Nevertheless, it would have taken generations, and careful record keeping, to notice a large enough movement to be sure that the equinox was indeed precessing through the constellations.
We learn from ancient Eastern astronomy and surviving myths why precession was so important to advanced cultures of the ancient world: precession was thought to indirectly cause the rise and fall of civilization over long periods of time.
They reasoned: just as the daily spin of the earth on its axis causes night and day and has an effect on consciousness producing active and inactive states, and just as the earth’s annual motion around the Sun causes plants to spring out of the ground, bloom and give fruit only to decay again and all manner of life to spawn, hibernate, fly south or otherwise change its behaviors, so does the slow movement of the earth in its precessional cycle cause a change in man’s consciousness and hence changes in civilization. The ancients said that each precessional
cycle brings high ages of enlightenment and low ages of darkness, as certain as the shorter cosmic motions bring us night and day and winter and summer.
If true, that civilizations rise and fall as an indirect result of the precessional movement, it could be an alternative explanation for why we see evidence of advanced cultures back when man was supposed to be a primitive hunter-gatherer. Also, it might explain the ancient fascination with the stars: they are not just an entertaining phenomenon; they are a “clock of the ages.”
The Yuga Cycle or Great YearPlato and the Greeks called this cycle the “great year” as did the early Chinese. The Mayans and Hopis had other names for it, and the Vedic Indians called it the Yuga cycle. These ancient cultures explained that the earth went through its metamorphosis in two parts: 12,000 years ascending to light and 12,000 years descending to darkness, each in four stages. The Greek’s Iron, Bronze, Silver and Golden ages, were said to have particular characteristics, sort of like
the four seasons, indirectly affecting man’s consciousness and his state of development on earth. The Vedic culture says man has incredible powers in the higher ages and experiences misery and chaos in the Dark Age or Kali Yuga. During the last Dark Age, the method of calculating the yugas became obscured when some Vedic scholars reasoned the 12,000 year half cycle mentioned in the Mahabarata must refer to “divine years” and therefore be multiplied by 360.
This huge blunder of the Kali yuga decoupled the Vedic system from the Greek concept of the ages, and resulted in an immense period of time that lost all correlation to the precessional cycle or the archaeological record. See
www.TheGreatYear.com for more information.
Celestial CauseThe great year was said to be driven by a celestial motion just as real as the two motions that drive night and day and the seasons of the solar year. These first two motions; a spinning earth and an earth that orbits the Sun, are the cause of most natural cycles on earth and are the basis of our daily and annual time systems. But in the dark ages the great precessional year was no
longer equated with any time system and its slow effect on mankind was forgotten. Man lost the knowledge that the earth was spinning or that the earth went around the Sun. Although by 400 B.C. Aristarchus of Samos, Archimedes and other ancients still knew and wrote about our heliocentric system, a few hundred years later this knowledge was lost and man thought that the earth was “flat” and that the “Sun went around the earth.”
This condition persisted almost two thousand years until Copernicus resurrected the old knowledge near the beginning of the renaissance (a term that means renewal). Copernicus acknowledges that he consulted ancient texts when he properly interpreted the first two motions of the earth.
Unfortunately, he did not have access to information on the third motion, yet he still needed
to explain the phenomenon of precession. Consequently, he said the earth must wobble. While this does properly explain the “observed” motion from the earth it did not explain the “reason” for this apparent wobble. So along came Newton who said that if the axis wobbled it must be due to the Sun and Moon tugging on the oblate earth. The fact is his equations for these motions never quite worked, and have been continuously modified ever since, but that’s another story.
Binary MotionIn 1894, an Indian sage, Swami Sri Yukteswar, wrote a book explaining the rise and fall of the ages and attaching the cause of this phenomenon, and that of precession, to a binary motion of our Sun. He said, “ We know from Oriental astronomy that moons revolve around their planets, and planets revolving on their axis with their moons revolve around the Sun, and the Sun takes
some star for its dual and revolves around it in a period of about 24,000 years causing the backward movement of the equinox.” Interestingly, this statement was made at a time when there was very little knowledge of binary stars and no knowledge that some stars like brown dwarfs or black holes might be very difficult or impossible to see.
According to the latest NASA figures a huge number of stars are undetectable and roughly 80% of all visible stars are now considered to be part of binary or multiple star systems. So what are the odds that our Sun is part of a binary system? Most scientists will tell you if we were in
a binary system we would know it by now. However, if the orbit period were long enough or if the companion were faint enough or if gravity worked a little differently outside the solar system, as proposed by Moti Milgrom (MOND theory), then it is quite possible we would not know our Sun has a companion star. However, if it did, then precession—the earth’s changing orientation to inertial space—could be the result of our Sun’s curved motion through space, which is exactly what our Sun would do if it were part of a binary system. Indeed, this theory is starting to gain traction as new questions are being raised about problems with traditional lunisolar precession theory.
Here at the Binary Research Institute we accept modest lunisolar forces but have found fundamental flaws in the current explanation of precession, whereas a binary model seems to solve many long-standing problems. For example: it has been found that the earth does not precess relative to objects within the solar system (like theMoon or Perseids comet debris) but it
does precess relative to fixed stars outside the solar system. This is very hard to explain
if precession is caused by anything other than a binary motion. Also, the binary model seems to easily solve problems with an uneven distribution of angular momentum within the solar system, and it provides a logical reason for observed nonrandom long cycle comet paths and the sheer edge of the Kuiper Belt.

Other scientists are also coming to similar conclusions. Karl and Uwe Homman of the
Sirius Research Group [
Hmmm. Interesting "symbolism" there] have been saying for several years that current lunisolar precession theory does not work, and they make compelling arguments that any rotation of the earth (as lunisolar theory requires) does not show up in time and motion equivalency measurements. And Carlo Santagata of Italy, taking a dynamicist’s approach shows us current precession theory fails to account for known relativistic effects. Most recently, work has been done applying Kepler’s law to a binary motion, to show that if the binary orbit were slightly elliptical, as virtually all orbits are, then precession, now at a rate of 25,770 years, (for
both ascending and descending phases combined) would average about 24,000 years if the apoapsis (farthest point of distance) between the two stars was reached at the depths of the dark ages, about A.D. 500. This would show that the average precession rate agrees perfectly with the ancient Vedic interpretation of the Yugas. An upcoming documentary airing on PBS [
PBS has been called by alternative researchers the place the "elites like to brag" upon. Remember, a key quote or was it confession, came from Larry Silverstein on a PBS documentary about 911!] this spring entitled ‘The Great Year’ delves even more deeply into this connection, showing the tie between ancient cultures and the precession of the equinox on a global scale.
Implications for the Great YearThe Greco-Roman Mythraics taught that Mythra “moved the Sun and caused precession.”
According to Michael S. Heiser, a cuneiform scholar of the highest magnitude, the Sumerians said the celestial object “Nibiru” drove precession. If the binary theory is proven it could give meaning to these statements and justify the Great Year myths and folklore from around the world. Finally there would be a reason, other than a wobbling earth, to cause the changing environment on our planet. No doubt there are great catastrophes, such as comet and asteroid impacts and probably huge tectonic movements or possibly even pole shifts that befall the
earth from time to time and interrupt the history of man. And maybe even extraterrestrials
affected life here on earth. But none of these explain why we had a progressively declining
civilization for thousands of years before the dark ages, or why intelligence and technology generally seem to be advancing so smartly since the beginning of the renaissance. A binary system of our Sun traveling through space taking the earth on a long elliptical journey where it might possibly be influenced by cosmic radiation, negative ions, different electromagnetic fields or even increasing or decreasing amounts of a certain spectrum of light, could very well affect
man’s consciousness on a vast scale and explain the myths that come to us from almost every ancient culture. There are several scientists now investigating EM field effects on man and subtle energies here on earth. The book, Ley Lines and Earth Energies, by David Cowan, looks at some of these issues in relation to the megaliths.
Lost Knowledge—New OpportunitiesSlowly but surely lost knowledge is being resurrected. [
In MY humble opinion, here at T.H.A., I do not think this knowledge was ever lost, just suppressed by secret societies. Our global leaders, so called that is, believe in Astrology and Precession and know how to use it. Not only that but subversive use of sacred symbolisms, including geometries, leylines, and energetic cycle periods.] We lost our ancient knowledge of geometry, of plotting eclipses and of the first two motions of the earth, but they have since been rediscovered. We found the Babylon Battery, which dates to more than 2000 years before Volta, and we found the Greek computer of Antikythera, also dating 2000 years before the invention of the modern calculator.
Nevertheless, most still think of history as linear and most believe we know much more than the ancients in spite of all the problems of modern society. If the great year cycle is true, perhaps we are close to rediscovering how to once again live in harmony with the earth and maybe
each other. Consider what a golden age might have been like, when science and spirituality worked together, when we revered the heavens and only built permanent structures if they were aligned with the motions of the earth and stars. Were shaman, and saints and sages and yogis, and enlightened demigods just made-up stories of a fantasized higher age? Or were they people like you and me who achieved their full human potential? Knowledge of a binary motion of our Sun and its connection to the precession of the equinox may be the next major discovery.
If it’s confirmed, it might finally lead us to an understanding of who and what we really were, and more importantly, what we have the potential to become.
Be wise, use your intuition, investigate everything, and be hopeful!