Angel

 

interpretation, Genesis 6, 

it just explains way more than the Sethian viewpoint of the same text ever could.

(More later :-) promise).

Antikythera mechanism: Ancient celestial calculator

"The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations." 

"Discovered by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, the remains of the mechanism are now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Only 82 fragments, consisting of about one-third of the original mechanism, survive today, researchers wrote in a 2021 study published in the journal Scientific Reports(opens in new tab). It was built around 2,200 years ago."

"The mechanism was capable of performing different calculations, and it could help track the motions of the sun, moon and five of the planets; it could even tell when athletic competitions, such as the Olympics, were set to take place, the researchers wrote. "It was a mechanical computer of bronze gears that used ground-breaking technology to make astronomical predictions, by mechanizing astronomical cycles and theories," the team wrote in the journal article."

"Since the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism, scholars have been trying to understand the device. And although they have made considerable progress, many questions remain unanswered. For example, researchers still aren't sure who made it. Some scholars have posited that the Greek inventor Archimedes (287 B.C. to 212 B.C.) was the mechanism's creator, but this is uncertain. The inscriptions on the mechanism are written in Greek."

(I'm going straight up Nephilim, yup, went there. A man had such knowledge 2200 years ago? And he didn't want the accolades that would come from such knowledge? Wouldn't want the fame and glory that would surround his crowning achievement? Interesting concept.)

"Whoever made the device would have had to know a great deal about astronomy, metallurgy and mechanology, Aristeidis Voulgaris, team leader of the Functional Reconstruction of Antikythera Mechanism (Frame) project, told Live Science in an email. This project aims to reconstruct what the mechanism originally looked like and gain a better understanding of it. They also would have needed "great hand dexterity," he noted.

(You got a better set of candidates? "Whoever made the device would have had to know a great deal about astronomy, metallurgy and mechanology")

"CT scans "revealed inscriptions describing the motions of the sun, moon and all five planets known in antiquity and how they were displayed at the front as an ancient Greek cosmos," the researchers wrote in the Scientific Reports article. The mechanism used "cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato's Academy and ancient Greek astronomical theories," the researchers wrote. 

"The mechanism represents "a level of technology exceeding anything else of the kind for which we have either physical remains or detailed descriptions from antiquity," Alexander Jones, a professor of the history of the exact sciences in antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, wrote in his book "A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World(opens in new tab)" (Oxford University Press, 2017).

("a level of technology exceeding anything else of the kind for which we have either physical remains or detailed descriptions from antiquity," Alexander Jones, a professor of the history of the exact sciences in antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World...I'm pretty much already ready to rest my case at this point.)

"The authors of the Scientific Reports article found that someone viewing the front of the mechanism would have seen dials that showed the movements of the moon, sun, lunar nodes (points where the moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic, the path the sun appears to take through the constellations), Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the Zodiac calendar. 

The back of the mechanism had dials showing the Metonic cycle (a 19-year cycle after which the phases of the moon occur on the same days of the year), the Callippic cycle (a period of 76 years, equal to four Metonic cycles), the Olympiad cycle (when the Olympics were held every four years), the Saros cycle (a period of more than 18 years between lunar eclipses) and the exeligmos (a period of more than 54 years, or three Saros cycles). 

Between the front and back of the mechanism were a vast array of gears, designed in such a way that all the dials would depict the correct timing of all the cycles.

"Suppose a user of the Antikythera Mechanism wants to check eclipse predictions for a particular month some years ahead. The user winds the mechanism forwards to the desired date, as shown on one of its calendars," Tony Freeth, a researcher with the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, wrote in a paper published in 2014 in the journal PLOS One(opens in new tab).

(Where is your better set of candidates for such knowledge? It would have been common knowledge among the Nephilim, why would any body wanna take credit for what everybody else already knows? You either believe the entire book is true, or its all a bunch of fairytale nonsense. I'd go with the former if I was you. Angel view, Genesis 6, were getting there, this is just the start.)

"Though the ship that held the Antikythera mechanism was discovered more than a century ago, the wreck has not been fully excavated. The size of the ship that carried it is unclear and just how widely the artifacts are dispersed is also somewhat uncertain. Its location and depth make it hard to excavate, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The site is at an angle on the seafloor around 130 to 165 feet (40 to 50 m) below the surface, meaning it's too deep for scuba divers to excavate for long but too shallow to be investigated by remotely operated vehicles, according to the WHOI. 

(Interesting set of ideocracies dont ya think?)