Maya Astronomer
Researchers determined the Maya charted the Pleiades star System of the Taurus constellation. The Maya charted several hundred stars in this system. However, today you can only see six of these stars without the aid of a high-powered telescope.
Depending on who conducts the research regarding this unusual Maya talent, we receive different answers. First there is the answer of mystical spiritual. In this answer the researcher states the Maya priests possessed clairvoyant powers. This answer hardly lies within the realm of physical reality. A second answer promotes the theory that Maya priests had acute sight that enabled them to view all the stars within the constellation. And further, because this feat cannot be duplicated today, human sight must have degenerated through the years. For those researchers who disagree with both solutions to the apparent mystery, we are returned to a very safe answer of amazing and astounding.
The answer to the question, of how the highest group of astronomer priests charted several hundred stars, which cannot be seen by the human eye, is simple. If you need a telescope to duplicate the event, that is the answer. They used a high-powered telescope, provided to them by their living Gods. The clue that provides information on a telescope is in the convex steel mirrors found in some temples. The same technology is required to produce telescopic lenses and parabolic reflectors used to start fires.
Maya Astronomer charting planets and stars. He is looking through an instrument which extends his vision. An arrow points from the end of the instrument indicating distant vision. Could this simply be a telescope? It definitely is! Image is from The Dresden Codex
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