The Orion constellation has been a fixture in monuments throughout the ancient world, from Egypt, China to Mexico.
Orion was an important constellation to our ancestors, but why?
Why are the Pyramids of Egypt placed in such a way that they mirror the Orion pattern?
The whole city of Teotihuacán seems to be aligned astronomically.
It is consistently oriented 15 to 25 degrees east of true north, and the front wall of the Pyramid of the Sun is exactly perpendicular to the point on the horizon where the sun sets on the equinoxes.
The rest of the ceremonial buildings were laid out at right angles to the Pyramid of the Sun.
The Avenue of the Dead points at the setting of the Pleiades.
The Hopi migrated all over the Southwest and after a series of building villages and abandoning these villages, they came to these three primary mesas in Northern Arizona.
They call them first, second and third mesas.
The Hopi mesas shape Orion’s Belt image and it is said that the Hopi specifically came here because of the shape, so we know for sure that the Hopi were extremely interested in Orion’s Belt and for them his was the center of their universe.
There are those that believe Orion may have been the beginning of our life on earth.
Who knows?
Maybe it was, maybe not, but aren't we at least curious to understand why the ancient civilizations that ruled the world, gave so much importance to this constellation.
Why did cultures who knew nothing of each other decide to build pyramids aligned with Orion?
Perhaps our curiosity will encourage us to dig deeper looking for evidence to discover answers to the questions about the origin of the human race and the purpose of life altogether.
Or just maybe we can discover what the ancients understood, that we don't.
