libra glyph

[Smee]

i found this quote on a website about the history of the constellations:

"Originally comprised the claws of the Scorpion, but (Libra) was detached from Scorpius by the Romans to represent the vernal equinox. Has also been associated with the scales held by the goddess of justice. It was added by Julius Ceaser at the time of the establishment of the Julian calandar."

so the Romans came AFTER the building of the stargate so how would the makers of the stargate know the constellation Libra? Or was there another constellation that looked like Libra and we just assumed it was Libra.
website: http://www.earthvisions.net/bcp/aster/constellations/Lib.htm

 

[Svarog]

It never mentions the Ancients naming the constellations. It might be that the Romans changed their constellations to match the ones on the gate. Considering they seem to have learnt about the gate from the Ancients (fifth race), this could work.

 

[PTeppic]

[Whoops - must have missed this thread when it first came out... :blush:]

Constellations in this context are visual, based on lateral proximity in the plane of the hemisphere of the sky. Just like any join-the-dots the collections could be grouped differently based on imagination and/or local legends. I'd be surprised if all people everywhere had 100% the same constellations on this basis.

And this doesn't allow for precession or other things that move the stars relative to each other over several thousand years since the stars would have been "mapped" for glyphs by the Ancients.

 

[Svarog]

I thought only the ancient Europeans used constellations, though i agree fully with the depending on local legend and point of view. We have not discovered any names to go with the glyphs, but have simply added our own names to the glyphs already there. It could be that the Ancients looked at the stars and took a few clusters and used them as waypoints for the wormhole.