Chapter 1043

984 The inheritance of the bull-killer, the Age of Taurus!

Precession phenomenon.

Although at first glance, it is easy to misunderstand the concept of leap year.

In fact it is completely different.

The reason why the ordinary calendar produces leaps every four years.

That is to say, every four years, there will be an extra day in a year, making it 366 days.

Not for any special reason.

Simply because humans are too lazy to bother and want to round up the numbers.

In fact, a complete solar year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 ​​minutes and 46 seconds, which is about 365 days and 6 hours.

Human beings are accustomed to calculating time according to integers of day and night, so they simply decided that there would be 365 days in a year.

As for the missing six hours, save for four years. Once you have enough twenty-four hours a day, you can just make them up.

The year that is filled in is called a leap year.

There is no natural philosophical truth to this.

It's just for convenience of counting.

But precession is different.

This is a very important discovery in astronomy. It not only proves the precession of the earth's rotation axis, but also has great significance in the field of mysticism.

The discovery of the precession of the equinoxes shows that star charts do not return completely every year.

Every other calendar year, the star chart changes slightly.

This change, for those theologians who believed that the stars were always fixed in one position, was a blow to their view of the universe.

At the same time, there is also a challenge regarding the origin of Mithralinga.

After all, the contract spirit itself is a regression phenomenon originating from the star chart.

If the star map never returns, wouldn't there be a problem with the core of the Mitralinga?

Just like the spirituality of the star spirits will be awakened after Algor is confirmed as a star, the observation of human history will affect the spirituality of the gods!

However, since the myth of Mithras can be passed down to this day.

Naturally, this challenge was overcome.

The way to overcome it is also very simple.

Since between each Gregorian calendar year, due to precession, the revolution period of the [tropical year] will be 20 minutes shorter than the [sidereal year], resulting in deflection errors in the star chart.

Well, the same method as for leap years.

Only twenty minutes of error need to be accumulated per year.

If it accumulates about 26,000 years.

The difference between the two will add up to 365 days, which is exactly one year!

Just like in a long-distance running competition on a track and field.

Someone who is one lap behind can keep up with someone who is one lap ahead.

Just accumulate enough error.

When things go to extremes, they must be reversed. Isn't it possible to restore (afdb) to its original state?

To explain it from an astronomical point of view, it is because the deflection of the earth's rotation axis, after 26,000 years, has exactly turned around 360 degrees and returned to the original starting point.

The change of the North Star will naturally restore it to its original position of 26,000 years ago.

Therefore, it is not that the star map will not return.

It's just that the return cycle has changed.

Originally, people believed that it would take 365 days for the stars in the night sky to return to their original positions according to the contract.

But now, it will take 26,000 years to return to its original position according to the contract.

Except after the numbers are a little bigger.

The contract itself has not changed much!

The phenomenon of the stars returning has not been affected at all!

Therefore, the spiritual character of Mithras is not diminished.

On the contrary, because I was the first to discover and acknowledge this phenomenon, my spiritual power has increased!

"...and there is such an operation!"

Bai Yaksha was stunned when he heard this.

Can this come true?

However, although it sounds outrageous, if you look deeper, it does make sense.

After all, the stars in the night sky reincarnate once every 26,000 years, and they have indeed returned to their places according to the contract.

"So, what does this have to do with the Cow Killer?"

Bai Yaksha did not forget about business.

Does the discovery of the precession phenomenon have any significance other than further consolidating Mithras' godhood?

"Now that's coming to that."

Emperor Shitian nodded, and all the necessary prerequisites had been explained.

The rest is a puzzle game.

"First of all, do you know the standard measurement method of one year?"

The standard year refers to the solar calendar, or what is commonly known as the solar calendar, which is the algorithm of the "tropical year".

"Who do you think we are?"

As a sun star spirit, Bai Yaksha showed a speechless expression.

Who else knows the algorithm of the solar calendar better than she, who is a solar star spirit?

"The tropical year is the time between two consecutive equinoxes of the sun."

This is also the official and accurate definition of a year recognized by modern human history.

It starts when the sun passes through the vernal equinox and ends when it passes through the next vernal equinox. The time in between is the exact year.

Hear this answer.

Emperor Shitian smiled slightly.

"Then let me ask you, when the sun reaches the vernal equinox, which constellation does it rise from?"

Just like the twelve zodiac signs at the equator, they are the divisions between Eastern astronomy and the starry sky.

The zodiac is the division of starry sky in Western astronomy and can be used to point out the direction.

The sun naturally rises from the east.

But what Emperor Shakti was asking now was the direction in the astrological sense of the sun when it rose at the only vernal equinox in the year.

Such a question naturally has to be answered with the name of the constellation.

"Now, it's Pisces!"

Bai Yasha answered without thinking.

"What about two thousand years ago?"

Emperor Shitian asked again.

"Of course it's Aries!"

Bai Yaksha immediately answered.

"What about four thousand years ago?"

"...Taurus!"

The moment she told the answer, she immediately understood what Emperor Shaktian meant.

Because of the precession phenomenon, the starry sky rotates once every 26,000 years, which means that every few thousand years, the starry sky rotates dozens of degrees.

Therefore, on the same day when the sun is at the vernal equinox, the background of the constellations will rotate over time.

This change spans thousands of years.

Four thousand years ago, the sun rose in the constellation Taurus at the vernal equinox.

After that comes Aries.

Now, the direction in which the sun rises at the vernal equinox is in the constellation Pisces.

That is to say——

"Is the legend of Mithras the Ox-Slayer actually a metaphor for pushing the solar calendar from the age of Taurus to the age of Aries?"

At this point, Bai Yaksha finally understood the meaning of Su Mo's words.

——I kill cows to move the gears.

When killing a cow, you are not killing an ordinary cow, but a Taurus in the astronomical sense.

As for pushing the gear, I don't even think about it.

This refers to the gear that drives the stars in the sky!

One hand drives the movement of the stars in the night sky, just like pushing a gear, leading and promoting the development of the world behind the scenes.

Such an image of a god made Bai Yaksha unable to help but feel shocked.

985 The existence of two propelling star gears

Naming an era using constellations is a timekeeping method that originated from the mystical school of ancient Greek astrology and was born after absorbing the idea of ​​​​precession.

According to the position of the zodiac constellation when the sun rises on the vernal equinox.

Astrology names it as an era.

In a little over two thousand years, times will change.

This change occurs in cycles of twenty-six thousand years.

Between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, the sun rose in the constellation Taurus at the vernal equinox, so it was called the Age of Taurus.

Between 2000 BC and about the beginning of the Christian era, the sun rose in the constellation Aries at the vernal equinox, so it was called the Age of Aries.

From the beginning of AD to the second millennium AD, the sun rose in Pisces at the vernal equinox, so it was called the Age of Pisces.

This method of division is not uncommon among civilizations that discovered the phenomenon of precession.

For example, the new era mentioned in the Mayan prophecies refers to the new era that will arrive after the Age of Pisces - the Age of Aquarius.

"And this can also be confirmed from the excavations of Mithraic remains."

Emperor Shitian added.

"Obviously it was a worship of the sun, but Mithraic caves were often painted with the twelve signs of the zodiac."

"Rice and grain are often born in the blood of the slaughtered cattle."

"This is a metaphor that Mithras turned the stars, killed Taurus, pushed the era to Aries, and allowed humans to live a life of gradually abundant food."

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Since entering the Age of Aries, the climate has become warmer and human food has become increasingly abundant.

The great abundance of survival materials allowed human beings to gradually evolve from small tribes to large tribes.

Thus the initial form of city-states and countries was born.

In the eyes of the people who worshiped Mithras.

This food and clothing was a blessing given by Mithras.