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Madfromreefer t1_j6oza15 wrote

2 questions…

If aligned to Orion; why Orion?

Or

What if they weren’t done aligning to another?

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PuckSR t1_j6pf5ry wrote

Orion's belt is one of the easiest patterns to pick out of the sky. Three stars that are relatively bright and look almost like a straight line.

From what I've seen, nearly every group that could SEE Orion's belt had some kind of constellation attached to it.

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ktempest t1_j6pe9re wrote

Why Orion: ancient Egyptians called that constellation Auser (who we know as Osiris) and it was very important in Egyptian cosmology.

I don't agree with the alignment thing, BTW.

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Ground2ChairMissile t1_j6p2ajg wrote

Because the layout of the three main pyramids kinda sorta looks like Orion's Belt from the air.

Except it's flipped. Hence the (wrong) idea that it looked really different thousands of years ago.

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ktempest t1_j6p66jg wrote

No, the flipped part isn't what's wrong with the idea.

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