Who Built the Moon? (28 page)

Plate 1 The Earth.

Plate 2 The Moon.

Plate 3 The Sun. If you divide the circumference of the Sun by that of the Moon and multiply by 100 you get the polar circumference of the Earth. And that is just the beginning: the number play involved in the Earth-Moon-Sun system is nothing less than staggering.

Plates 4 & 5 The Lascaux caves. Around 250 generations after the Abri Blanchard bone was carved, another astronomer recorded this already ancient knowledge onto a cave wall at Lascaux in France. These photographs show reconstructions of the paintings.

Plate 6 The Abri Blanchard bone. Experts agree that the markings carved onto the 25,000-year-old Abri Blanchard bone accurately correspond with a two-month lunar calendar.

Plate 7 The Willendorf Venus c. 24000–22000 BCE. Studies have suggested that these early ‘Venus’ images of the female figure were self-portraits.

Plate 8 Craters on the surface of the Moon.

Plate 9 A drawing of the Moon surface map found at Knowth, Ireland, superimposed onto the face of the Moon.

Plate 10 Active volcanoes indicate the molten nature of the Earth’s core.

Plate 11 Mountain ranges are the proof of plate tectonics at work. But why is Earth the only planet to show evidence of this? The answer, it would seem, lies with the Moon.