A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – They are considered to be “hats of ancient wizards” but their original purpose has baffled scientists for many decades.
Did wizards wear conical hats? Similar hats were worn by many gods. Quetzalcoatl wore his conical cap as Ehecatl, the god of wind, the Sumerian gods are often depicted in similar cone-shaped hats.
Are the circular symbols on the golden hats a proof of a highly advanced astronomical knowledge of the Bronze Age or perhaps the hats were used as cult objects in ceremonies and rituals?
If so, who was the subject of this worship?
Are the circular symbols on the golden artifacts a proof of a highly advanced astronomical knowledge of the Bronze Age or perhaps the hats were used as cult objects in ceremonies and rituals?
Could the Bronze Age people possess such sophisticated astronomical skills as those presented on conical hats? Where did their advanced knowledge come from?
Four of the elaborately decorated cones have been uncovered at sites in Switzerland, Germany and France over the past 170 years.
The gold hats are 3,000 years old and are very similar to each other regarding their form and symbolism and decoration like disks, circles and wheel symbols.
All four hats were hammered up whole from a single piece of gold.
The tallest of them, measuring 90 cm, is that found in Ezelsdorf near Nürnberg. Germany in 1953.
According to scientists who analyzed strange artifacts, these were used to calculate the movements of the sun and the moon in advance.
However, there are other interpretations of a numerous combinations of astronomical and calendarical symbols that cover four conical hats.
Mysterious hats are composed of 10 to 20 zones filled with a different number of symbols. The number of circles of each symbol and the number of symbols from one or more zones are multiplied in a first step, the total amount means a number of days. Then the number of days is compared to astronomical cycles like the synodic month or the tropical year.
One of theories proposes that mysterious conical hats were worn by “king-priests” (Lords of Time) possessing supernatural powers because of their ability to predict the correct time to sow, plant and harvest.
Other explanations suggest hats, quivers, calendars of different kind, containers, crowns and much more.
According to scientific studies, the 1,739 sun and half-moon symbols decorating the hat’s surface make up a scientific, still undeciphered code which resembles 18.67 year cycle called the “Metonic Cycle” probably identified by Meton of Athens (born circa 460 B.C.; date of death unknown), a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer.
But Meton’s “discovery” took place 500 years after the mysterious conical hats were made.
Similar five golden cones were also unearthed in Ireland during the 17th and 18th centuries and even in many other places of prehistoric Europe, according to Prof Sabine Gerloff, a German archaeologist from Erlangen University, Germany and other researchers.
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D. Price, Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages