stars as a map and compass of the world

The fascination that prevails over us in the ancient world is based on a simple combination of undeniable answers and unresolved questions. Archaeological sites, a fascinating menu, are close to us, including three thousand years of abandonment, pillage and decay, while unknown about its functionality and above all, the construction methods used by the civilizations they created are kept in the realm of academic debate.

If you can deny the gods, but you cannot deny the pyramids, because they are, alas, immense, colossal, mocking instances of our disbelief, with thousands of blocks of high stone it constantly answers the question of how, where and why it was built.

The answer at this point is what mathematicians should give to a question about the value of a certain part of a number or an infinite part of an infinite number: it is indeterminacy. Uncertainty does, or to put it another way, we don’t know because recognizing our own ignorance is the only way to find methods that reveal these lagoons of knowledge. This is also the path taken by mathematicians.

If you look at Tito Vivas’s book, Pyramids, dioses and sabiduarias of the ancient worldthe first to think that he will live some kind of Daniken moment with countless guiños k the possibility that another civilization existed before the human onealien process that knows the technology capable of raising these monuments.

And it is certain that it is the opposite, because Tito Vivas, who considers himself a great popularizer and his exhaustive use of humor and irony, is first and foremost a scientist and we are also talking about the unknown the history of hypotheses that have been generated through siglos, from Herodotus to the present.

We know that to him who holds the hammer, all are clubs. In ancient times, these works were believed to be the creations of gods or superhuman beings. Luego, p popularization of UFOs and space travelthe design has been carried over into space and I’m sure new hypotheses will emerge in the future.

In this class of subjects the problem of fuentes is paramount. If you can quote them This is because he is one of the oldest known witnesses. When he traveled to Egypt, in 450 BC, he asked the priests and the local population how the pyramids were built, and we know what they answered, we assume with the greatest truth.

The point is that the pyramids were built by the Redeemer 2500 BC and ask an Egyptian of the era of Herodotus how they were built, how they were built today in Segovia, and ask a Segovian how the aqueduct was built, that’s two thousand years. To know with this person, you know what he will tell you, but from now on it is not possible to mention a first-hand witness.

Without looking at the index of the book, I recommend that the reader, after reading a good book and not before, can get the idea that this is a work of research how and why the civilizations of the ancient world were centered in transcendence after deaththey were constantly looking at the stars, which were for them the door to the other world, the clock that ruled it, and the map that had to be deciphered.

Tito Vivas reads all the questions in this book: who built the pyramids? What is certain about the story of ancient astronauts? Were the oldest temples the work of disappearing civilizations? The answers, without exception, are scientists who, to put it precisely, do not give up on the mystery.

And he won’t return to the pyramids and Egyptian civilization, his specialty, until he moves on Central America, Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) or Stonehengein Great Britain, reassessing the texts and traditions that have been debunked by decades of pseudoscience to offer us a more realistic but equally enthusiastic vision of the peoples who built these monuments.

As for the author, who has not yet spoken about the case, Tito Vivas is a doctor of Egyptology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ​​who specializes in the relationship between astronomy, religion and religion in ancient civilizations. He worked in Luxor, Aswan and Deir el-Bahari factoriesand developed research institutes in institutions such as the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the American University in Cairo, among others.

Through many journeys he specialized in it connecting Antiguan civilizations with their faith and their incorporation into the territories they are to inhabit, with particular emphasis on this last point, since civilizations, like languages, are hijas of their surroundings and whether they prosper or not depends on the degree of their adaptation to the environmental conditions that condition their development.

He wrote several works on the same subject before the one that should stand out Guide to Egypt for Pyramidologists and Traders, Tutankhamun, Howard y yo or The path of a naïve Egyptologisteveryone focused on carrying one rigorous information again informative a theme in which many modern chiceros have engaged.

Let us now talk about a book that aims to bring some meaning to the discipline of history popular amaryllis attacked. Or, at best, the correct formulation is not “unclever” but simply simple, since chemistry also benefits immensely from the efforts of alchemists, and astronomy supports the work of astrologers.

Anything is better than ignorance and indifference. Anything is better than ‘no one cares, no one cares’. And if the author is sometimes an enthusiast and an expert, we are in front of the best possible combination.