How could ancient people possible know about stars, planets, moons, constellations and space??

Shills deployed in full force, you know what that means.

The sheep is not allowed to know that Sumer had telescopes, satellites, rocket launch pads and all that good stuff, because Sumerian kings were aliens.

Bury bury, shut if down!!!!

They did build a Solar City representative of our solar system in the jungle of the Yucatan peninsula, near a huge meteor crater in the Gulf of Mexico. [clue to what they were watching for as are the multitudes of cenotes scattered across the peninsula]
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The Venus Pyramid platform - the name speaks for itself.

The Observatory pyramid..if you were observing the sun and other planets of our solar system, as we are Earthlings - the Observatory Pyramid would represent Earth and it's smaller platform would be our moon.

The temple of the Warrior Twins is Mars as throughout world mythology Mars is always portrayed as a warrior.

The courtyard of the temple of a Thousand Warriors adorned by columns adjacent to the Warrior Twins Mars platform equals our solar systems 'inner' asteroid belt and it's thousands of fragmented meteorites.

Platform of the Skulls is Mercury. We know mercury is dangerous to humans therefore the danger symbol is given as a skull.

The temple of the Bearded Man is Jupiter as a beard signifies age and Jupiter is suspected in astronomy as our solar systems eldest planet.

The Jaguar temple Uranus, another of our solar systems distant planets sits adjacent the Ball Court to the Bearded Man as they watch the perpetual ball dance Mercury portrays.

[The infamous Mayan Ball Court is a special reference to the constellation of Orion; as a ball travels the court back and forth so does the Orion Platonic Year transit oscillation with it's perpetual dance as above so below with Earth and in our Heavens. This clue is why the Ball Court is placed across from the great solar castle Pyramid of Kukulkan and furthest from the Mayan Solar City.]

Platform of Eagles and Jaguars is Saturn with it's vast rings and many circling moons.

The Sacred Cenote, our solar system's furthest planet Neptune.

History explains the Mayan mythology to their continuous ritualistic deposits of copious amounts of blue-dye in the Sacred-Cenote evident and verifiable today.

because we have been fed lies about being the first "high tech" civilization?

No cell phone in the lot. Some things have been explained. The reactor, for example, is natural. Some things are not out of the realm of possibility, the Antikythera mechanism, for example. It is a little earlier than historians thought, but brass was a common metal 2000 years ago. Some you cannot ignore the possibility of a hoax. "We found a spark plug but we lost it." Right!

So basically, you have nothing.

Unlike you, the ancient Greeks were able to reason. Planet was the name given to anything that moved with respect to the stars. Did they know Saturn had rings? No. Did they know about the red spot on Jupiter? No. Did they know about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto? No. Everything passed down, everything written is all naked eye.

Read The Almagest, a record of naked eye observations of the Greeks.

Thanks! That's pretty much what I was going to say :-)

The ancient peoples (Minoans, Greeks, Egyptians, Sumerians etc.) didn't know exactly what the nature of stars and planets was - they were all just lights in the sky - but they could see that the ones they chose to call "planets" moved around, and had a different quality of light about them.

You can make exactly the same observations today. Go out and look at Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and over a few days or weeks you'll be able to see them change their positions. They also look quite different to the stars around them.

Remember, the stars and planets were important to those ancient cultures. They were used in astrology to foretell events, they were used in agriculture to know when to plant seeds and to harvest crops, and they were used for navigation by travellers and traders. They paid a lot more attention to them than 99% of people do nowadays...

They didnt just watch the sky, they observed the sky, which means they spent night after night and kept notes. Also for what they couldnt observe they used mathematics and geometry.

the night sky was their history book, computer, movie theater, religion...

I personally believe that a lot of the myths that have been passed down where just ways to remember the sky.

Gee, why would another ancient term for planets be 'wanderers'?

Most archaic sites, especially the megalithic ones are older than archaeologists let on. One problem is carbon dating and the fact that rock cannot be dated.

At Chimney Rock, CO the ancients designed, built and framed the full moon during maximum lunar standstill and they celebrated it through the ages. In 1054 the Crab Nebula had a supernova event and this site celebrated that as evidenced by tree rings (not original build date, rather later additions)

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