Quebec teen discovers ancient Mayan ruins by studying the starshttps://ca.news.yahoo.com/quebec-teen-discovers-ancient-mayan-ruins-by-170620746.htmlThis young man is a legitimate genius.
A teenager from Quebec has discovered an ancient Mayan city without leaving his province’s borders.
William Gadoury is a 15-year-old student from Saint-Jean-de-Matha in Lanaudière, Quebec. The precocious teen has been fascinated by all things Mayan for several years, devouring any information he could find on the topic.
During his research, Gadoury examined 22 Mayan constellations and discovered that if he projected those constellations onto a map, the shapes corresponded perfectly with the locations of 117 Mayan cities. Incredibly, the 15-year-old was the first person to establish this important correlation, reported the Journal de Montreal over the weekend.
Then Gadoury took it one step further. He examined a twenty-third constellation which contained three stars, yet only two corresponded to known cities.
Gadoury’s hypothesis? There had to be a city in the place where that third star fell on the map.
Satellite images later confirmed that, indeed, geometric shapes visible from above imply that an ancient city with a large pyramid and thirty buildings stands exactly where Gadoury said they would be. If the find is confirmed, it would be the fourth largest Mayan city in existence.
“I didn’t understand why the Maya built their cities far away from rivers, in remote areas, or in the mountains,” Gadoury told the Journal de Montreal, explaining how he developed his theory.
Once Gadoury had established where he thought the city should be, the young man reached out to the Canadian Space Agency where staff was able to obtain satellites through NASA and JAXA, the Japanese space agency.
Scientists across the board have been blown away by Gadoury’s discovery.
“What makes William’s project fascinating is the depth of his research,” said Canadian Space Agency liaison officer Daniel de Lisle. “Linking the positions of stars to the location of a lost city along with the use of satellite images on a tiny territory to identify the remains buried under dense vegetation is quite exceptional.”
Being 15, Gadoury has decided to name the city K'ÀAK ‘CHI, a Mayan phrase which in English means “fire mouth.”
The next step for Gadoury will be seeing the city in person. He’s already presented his findings to two Mexican archaeologists, and has been promised that he’ll join expeditions to the area.
Says Gadoury: “It would be the culmination of three years of work and the dream of lifetime.”
The city hasn't been discovered yet, but in a Delta Green universe, guess who A cell sends along with the academic expedition. Team Your Sorry Asses.
I'm also reminded of the "Orion correlation theory" regarding the position of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
Orion correlation theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theoryThe Orion correlation theory (or Giza–Orion correlation theory[1]) is a hypothesis in alternative Egyptology. Its central claim is that there is a correlation between the location of the three largest pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex and Orion's Belt of the constellation Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by the builders of the pyramids. The stars of Orion were associated with Osiris, the god of rebirth and afterlife, by the ancient Egyptians.[2][3][4] Depending on the version of the theory, additional pyramids can be included to complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and the Nile river can be included to match with the Milky Way galaxy. The theory was first published in 1989 in Discussions in Egyptology, volume 13. It was the subject of a bestseller, The Orion Mystery, in 1994,[5] as well as a BBC documentary, The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Stars (February 1994), and appears in some new-age books.[6][7]
Anyway back to the main story.
Translated to English from
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/05/07/un-ado-decouvre-une-cite-mayaA teenager discovers a Mayan city
SAINT-JEAN-DE-MATHA | A Quebecers 15 years has discovered a new Mayan city hitherto unknown with his theory that civilization chose the location of its towns in the form of star constellations.
William Gadoury, a teenager from Saint-Jean-de-Matha in Lanaudière, became a small launch to NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency, while his discovery is about to be disseminated in a scientific journal.
Passionate Mayan for several years, he analyzed 22 Mayan constellations and realized that if he connected on a map the stars of the constellations, the shape of each corresponded to position 117 Mayan cities. No scientist had ever found such a correlation between the stars and the location of the Mayan cities.
The genius of William, however, was to analyze a 23rd constellation. It contained three stars and only two cities matched on the card. According to his theory, so it should be a 118th Mayan city in a remote and inaccessible location in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
One of the 5 largest cities
Analyses from satellites in different space agencies have revealed that there was indeed a pyramid and thirty buildings at the precise location identified by the young man.
The Journal had access to satellite images which we see different structures of what may be an ancient city. "Geometric shapes, such as squares or rectangles, appeared on these images, forms that can hardly be attributed to natural phenomena," says remote sensing specialist at the University of New Brunswick, Dr. Armand LaRocque.
Not only he would have discovered a new Mayan city, but it would be one of the five largest.
"When Dr. LaRocque told me in January, we distinguish a pyramid and thirty structures, it was extraordinary," said the young man.
He named this lost city K'ÀAK 'CHI' or 'fire mouth "in French.
"I did not understand why the Maya built their cities away from rivers, on marginal lands and in the mountains, said William Gadoury. He had to have another reason, and as they worshiped the stars, the idea came to me to verify my hypothesis. I was really surprised and excited when I realized that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities. "
He wants to go
For now, no one has yet delivered in the jungle to see the fiery mouth.
William spoke to two Mexican archaeologists to whom he presented his work, but these are not made there.
"It's always about money. An expedition costs horribly expensive, "said Dr. Armand LaRocque.
Archaeologists have promised William to bring in their excavations. This is the greatest wish of the young man.
"It would be the culmination of my three years of work and the dream of my life," he said.
The stars gave him the key
William Gadoury was interested in the Maya after the publication of the Mayan calendar announcing the end of the world in 2012.
Teen found 22 constellations in a Maya Codex Madrid.
By connecting the stars of the constellations to create forms and applying transparencies with the constellations on a Google Earth map, he found that this corresponds to the Maya cities of the Yucatan Peninsula.
In all, 142 stars to 117 correspond Mayan cities.
The brightest stars are the largest cities.
In addition, the method used by William works with Aztec civilizations, the Incas and Harapa India.
23rd constellation
He found in a Mayan reference book a 23rd constellation that was missing. By linking the three stars, he noticed he was missing a Mayan city on the map.
He shared this discovery with the Canadian Space Agency who provided satellite images from NASA and JAXA Japanese agency.
He also visited a hundred websites distributors of satellite images that allowed him to get hold of images dating from 2005, a year when a great fire devastated the region, which made them more visible vestiges of its lost city.
The impressed scientists
Experts and scientists are unanimous. The discovery of William Gadoury is exceptional.
"What is fascinating about the project of William, is the depth of his research. Linking the position of stars and the location of a lost city and the use of satellite images on a tiny territory to identify the remains buried under dense vegetation, is quite exceptional! "Has said Daniel de Lisle, the Canadian Space Agency. He also presented a medal of merit to the young man.
The space agency has contributed to the advancement of research the young man by providing satellite images that allowed him to find his lost city.
Not easy
Dr. Armand LaRocque, a remote sensing specialist from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton has played a major role in the analysis of radar images.
"The discovery of hidden human structures in the Yucatan jungle was not easy, but the use of satellite images, as well as the contribution of the digital image processing have helped identify these structures and to confirm their possible existence, although they were forgotten for hundreds of years. "
THE LOST CITY
Name: The Fire Mouth
Pyramid 86 meters
Total area of 80 to 120 square km
Location: 17 ° North 90 ° West
large network of alleys and streets
30 visible structures of space
4th largest Mayan city
NEED FUNDS TO GO TO BRAZIL
So far the school pay 100% of costs for the Expos-science (regional and national) William. For attending the International Science Fair Brazil in 2017, the Académie Antoine-Manseau has exhausted its budget allocated to science and can only provide 50% of costs. Therefore missing around $ 1,000 for it to get there.
People wishing to contribute to help William Gadoury to represent Quebec at Fortizina may do so by contacting the young researcher by email at: will_maya@live.ca
Further thoughts
In all, 142 stars to 117 correspond Mayan cities.
The brightest stars are the largest cities.
In addition, the method used by William works with Aztec civilizations, the Incas and Harapa India.
-Do any of the 25 stars that do not correspond to Mayan city locations correspond to a Mayan constellation that has a negative mythological connotation? Perhaps those "evil constellations" denote taboo pre-human ruins (or Atlantean, Hyborian, or Lemurian) or even containment areas Mayan sorcerers used to seal away a great evil.
-What are these constellations and cities that are linked in Harapa India?
-Perhaps a fictionalized version of an archaeological prodigy is actually Randolf Carter reborn (or reincarnated in an different timestream since Carter iirc was lost in time and space). Perhaps Delta Green has to carry out a clandestine escort mission of the prodigy while trying to sabotage the academic expedition to the newly discovered fifth largest Mayan city WHILE the Fate (Nyarty hates Carter) sends a sorcerorous kill team to assassinate the young prodigy before he does something mystically important.
-Now I'm thinking of Laird Barron's Children of the Old Leech stories and the Outer Dark.
There are large "empty" areas in space where galaxies are statistically few and far between.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/20/cold-spot-background-radiation-solved-supervoidMystery-busting 'supervoid' is largest object in the UniverseAstronomers in Hawaii may have solved a mystery embedded in the background of the Universe, by identifying the largest single object in existence.
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Successive temperature maps of this cosmic microwave background (CMB), including those produced by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, have found the unusual spot in the southern galactic hemisphere, in the constellation Eridanus.
Its existence is a problem, because statistically the spot sits far outside the standard fluctuations in temperature in the CMB anticipated by standard physics. Explaining it has been a matter of either starting again with the basic physics of the Big Bang, or finding something very, very large in between Earth and the CMB -- such as a supervoid, which is an empty region of space in which galaxies are much more rare than they are elsewhere.
The myth behind the constellation Eridanus
http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/eridanus-constellation/In Greek mythology, the constellation is associated with the story of Phaëton (or Phaëthon), the son of the Sun god Helios and the Oceanid Clymene. Phaëton wanted to drive his father’s chariot across the sky and kept begging for Helios’ permission to do so until the god agreed, advising Phaëton to follow the beaten track where he saw wheel marks.
Phaëton mounted the chariot and the horses, sensing that the driver was lighter, flew upwards into the sky, leaving the familiar track behind. The inexperienced driver could not control the horses and the reins slipped from his hands. The chariot plunged so close to the Earth that lands caught fire. It is said that this was how Libya became a desert, Ethiopians got dark skin, and the seas dried up. Zeus saw what was going on and had to intervene to prevent further disaster. He struck Phaëton down with a thunderbolt and, when Phaëton’s hair caught on fire, he leapt from the chariot and fell into the Eridanus. His father Helios, stricken with grief, did not drive his chariot for days, leaving the world in darkness.
The Greek poet Aratus called the constellation Eridanus, while a number of other sources including Ptolemy referred to it as Potamos, which means “the river.” Eratosthenes associated the celestial river with the Nile, the only river that runs from south to north. Hyginus, a Latin author, agreed, pointing out that the bright star Canopus in the constellation Carina lay at the end of the river much like the island Canopus lies at the mouth of the great river in Egypt. The actual constellation, however, represents a river that runs from north to south. Later, the river came to be identified as the river Po in Italy by Greek and Latin authors.
The name Eridanus, according to a theory, comes from the name of a Babylonian constellation known as the Star of Eridu (MUL.NUN.KI). Eridu was a Babylonian city held sacred to the god Enki-Ea. Enki-Ea was the ruler of the cosmic domain of the Abyss, usually imagined as a reservoir of fresh water below the Earth’s surface.
This is all too fucking convenient that the location of a constellation related to myths of "darkness" in two cultures contains a supervoid. Fiction writers, mine this coincidence for ideas please.
Now as I understand it there are other voids in the universe. Perhaps if the location of these voids is charted on the Earth using a civilizations "constellations as city planning locations" as a reference the voids corresponding Earthly locations are places of great evil or great chthonic darkness.
In a Larid Barron's mythos naturally these could be locations detailed by The Black Guide where the Children of the Old Leech gather.
Lots to play with here.
