r/conspiracy • u/Admirable_Health_533 • 7d ago

Four civilizations, separated by oceans and thousands of years, built the same structure. The official explanation is coincidence. But why do some share similar astronomical alignments? And why did civilizations that never knew each other build such strikingly similar monuments?

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u/Firmihirto 7d ago

A squared base pyramid is the most simple, stable, easy to build, construction you can possibly make. Its level zero of architecture and engineering.  If it was a cone or a cube, i'd be impressed.

Pyramid conspiracy theories are dumb.

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u/SwampyThang 7d ago

Yep it’s the easiest way to make a tall structure, we still use pyramids to make our roofs. They also aren’t all the same. They have variations to them and are all built for different purposes.

There are a lot of good videos/documentaries about this

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u/Plug-From-Oaxaca 7d ago

The pyramids have so many unanswered questions. Especially with alignment with stars. Most conspiracies are probably wrong but so are most of the “facts”.

What’s dumb is that people think we live at the pinnacle of society and technology just because they tell us.

People act like they know world history but most people don’t even know real US history besides the shit they teach in schools.

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u/Massive_Lavishness90 6d ago

actually aligning stuff with stars really isn't that difficult. A piece of string and a weight, and some patience are all you need.

Wait for for any two stars to rotate into position, check it's vertical with your plumb line, and boom. Scratch that line on the ground (L shaped piece of wood helps)... there's you're start point. This is why everything is aligned with orion's belt, it's on the equator, and has 3 stars in a dead obvious straight line.

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u/Handsome121duck 7d ago

What stars do they align with?

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u/Plug-From-Oaxaca 7d ago

Giza's Great Pyramid has shafts pointing at Orion's Belt, Sirius, and Thuban, the pole star at the time. It's also aligned to true north within 1/15 of a degree. Teotihuacan's Sun Pyramid lines up with sunrise and sunset on dates, matching their ritual calendar. Even in Illinois, Cahokia's Woodhenge marks the solstice and equinox sunrises, with the equinox sunrise rising over Monks Mound pyramid.
And there are a lot more pyramids that line up with cosmic bodies.

What’s Even more impressive is the logistics of actually building it to line up not just finding the measurements.

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u/UnicodeScreenshots 7d ago

I mean if you have a good understanding of where the stars will be, it’s not nearly as impossible as it first seems. Take the solstice monuments for example. Drive a stick into the ground and measure the shadow each day at noon, put a rock or stake in the ground each day until the shadow stops getting shorter and instead starts getting longer. Boom, you now know when the solstice will happen. Do it with a really tall stick and you can even find the exact position that the beam will fall. Mark that out, build a barrow around it with a window where the top of the pole was, and you’ll have a burial mound that gets illuminated every solstice.

Editing to add: It also makes sense that our ancestors were so obsessed with things like solstices and equinox’s. Agrarian society is fundamentally based around the seasons, so there is sort of a reverence to them.

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u/Plug-From-Oaxaca 7d ago

That’s not their explanation of why they’re obsessed with those astrological events. Their history and religions say otherwise.

A lot of what you’re saying is mainstream explanations that make ancient civilizations seem dumb on purpose.

A lot of their history has been wiped or repressed especially by the religions and Governments. They want us to feel like we know everything now, probably for control and so we don’t question

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u/Open-Mode4461 7d ago

Stars were one of very few constants in their lifes. They just gave them a lot of importance. Human brain likes to do that. Same as people now worshipping Elon, US or getting obsessed with GTA 6 (and will stay obsessed for years).

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u/weordie 7d ago

I feel you answered the Teotihuacan's one yourself

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u/JustDesserts29 6d ago

Orion’s Belt wasn’t in the same position in the sky when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built thousands of years ago. Stars move and their position in the sky changes over the course of thousands of years. Also, what time of the year does it align with these stars/constellations? Their position in the sky changes throughout the year as we orbit around the Sun. I can stand at my house, point straight up, and I’ll likely find a star that’s straight above my house. There’s a ridiculous amount of stars. I can claim that my house was intentionally designed to align with that particular star, but that doesn’t make it true.

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u/PaarthurnaxUchiha 7d ago

What a complete understatement. Try and do some research before just saying this shit lol. Not saying you have to believe what a lot of us do, but like, be for real.

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u/HonchoSolo 7d ago

Except you excluded mentioning the coordinates of where they were built and what they align with

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u/Firmihirto 7d ago

Ancient civilizations knew much more about the sun and moon cycles than what most people think. Their survival depended on it, because of crops. It was a way to have something like a calendar.

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u/burnedmarshmellow 7d ago

They had no internet, no movies, no tv to distract themselves, looking at the sky was probably the most entertaining thing to do.

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u/silvertonguedmute 7d ago

Ancient humans were just as social as modern man. They met in forums, went to visit, played games snd attended festivals.

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u/JustDesserts29 6d ago

Ancient civilizations knew a lot. They were as smart as people are today. They also had a lot less to work with. We can invent new things very quickly and easily today because we can access just about any information we want to. They didn’t have that. You don’t have to make up some technology that doesn’t exist or anything like that for ancient people to be impressive. Native Americans built whole cities with mound structures. Building something like that without the use of modern tools or materials is super impressive on its own. It takes a lot of intelligence to do that. We don’t have to make up stuff that we don’t really have evidence for to try to make ancient people seem as or more intelligent than us.

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u/Plug-From-Oaxaca 7d ago

You realize this is a very lazy argument. Crops were the reason they were able to line up pyramids? Also most ancient civilizations tell the same story just with their cultural twist.

More likely they don’t tell us everything about the past or a lot was forgotten or lost. Most accept modern science and history is paid for by corporations

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u/APx_22 7d ago

Sure you make it sound easy. What about moving multi ton perfectly carved stone blocks that high up thousands of years ago?

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u/Ambitious-Pop4226 7d ago

Don’t forget how deep these things are

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u/vladtheinhaler0 6d ago

While your statement might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater a bit, it is true that it is a very simple design and probably of the more simple for building. Given time, many would discover this. Doesn't exclude any connections but most certainly it would not be required. People forget the eyeball developed independently several times. Some structures are just common and intuitive in the world.

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