GREAT ZIMBABWE .HEXAGRAM. Great Zimbabwe they call stone mystery of Africa. And indeed in this building there is very much unusual. The word "Zimbabwe" originates from one expression in the language of Shona tribe and literally means "stone." The oldest description of G. Zimbabwe belongs to the Portuguese chronicler di Goish who may be did not see city himself but heard about it from Arab merchants. He wrote: "In the heart of the country lies composed of large and heavy stone fortress. This is amazing and unique building, it looks inside as well as outside, because its stones are bonded without mortar and coated with nothing ... On the stone over the entrance there is a sign which is so old that nobody can read it. Around on the same plain, are scattered constructed in the same manner others fortresses. As far as we can judge all these fortresses were erected to protect the gold mines ... King Banamatapa holds rich court and people serve him on their knees. " When in the end of the 19th century, Europeans came here, this information was really confirmed. Huge stone buildings really stood in this place, but neighboring tribes had no idea who, when and how could erect these structures. photo By John A Forbes | The fortress was built of stone, unusual for Africa building material. Stone structures of Great Zimbabwe (GZ) are scattered over the area of 24 hectares and are located in the highest part of the plain. GZ consists of three building complexes: the early acropolis (or castle on the hill), an elliptical structure (castle, surrounded with a giant stone wall) and ruins which are located between them in the river valley. Massive stone fortress as if is plotted on curves, it has a conical tower and surrounded with a wall nearly of 300-meter-long (wall base is 5 meters, height is 10 meters). Stone blocks are stacked so carefully and skillfully that the wall was preserved to the present day almost completely. Scientists calculate that in the walls of Zimbabwe are laid 15,000 tons of stone. To erect such buildings without special engineering knowledge, with primitive methods is impossible. Therefore, the first explorers of these stone structures believed that the constructions of Great Zimbabwe are not of African origin. GZ has mysterious layout and incomprehensible purpose both all complex and its separate buildings. Debates about the time of construction GZ and about that who built it do not end. The most curious construction of a large settlement is a conical tower at the outer wall. This wonderful example of erection with the method of dry-laid rises on 9 meters, the length of its circumference at the base is 17 meters. With its own form the tower resembles a granary of peasants of local Shona tribe, but because of its absolute solidity purpose of this building presents unsolvable puzzle for archaeologists. However, if we consider GZ as a geographical landmark, visible even from space, and the tower of it as specific point, then a lot of things stand on their places. As a point of system of ancient monumental buildings GZ plays the most important role, it is connected with the explicit laws of the main objects of the system and its location is not random of course. Large Zimbabwe with a small error lies on the meridian of Great Pyramid (GP) and is away from it on a distance of 5554 km, i.e. 50 * along the arc of globe. Latitude of GP is 30 * in the northern hemisphere, latitude of GZ is 20 * in the southern hemisphere. And here latitude of GZ is 20.27 * very close to the latitude of Teotihuacan - 19.42 * only in the northern hemisphere. Between the meridians of GZ and Teotihuacan are also 50 *. See article "GEODESY OF MERIDIANS." And this is not sole thing that connects the two objects. GZ is the key point of the "Triangle of Giza" and its location gives logic to all the construction, justifying introduction of additional points. Orient hexagram to the cardinal points. In this position, we see that the azimuth of GP differs from the direction to the north on 0.23 *. Megalithic park Asuka in Japan is another mystery, and its location is also clearly not random. Azimuth to this place in the point of GZ is 60.13 * the error is + 0.13 *. With hexagram, oriented to the north-south axis, also interacts azimuth of Lalibela, which has the error of -0.44 * is equal to 15 *. Also in this combination, with the error of 0.15 * is inscribed azimuth of Vatican, which is equal to 344.85 *, it is deflected on 15 * counter-clockwise from the north-south axis.
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