During the months of December and early January will be one of the most beautiful skies of the year and the main character is the constellation Orion. You can immediately see the sunset out on the east. The Chaldeans called Tammuz, as the month that the strip of stars came out for the first time after sunset. The Syrians called it Al Jabbar, the Giant. To the ancient Egyptians it was Sahu, the soul of Osiris. It is considered that the three pyramids of Giza -Keops, Chephren and Micerino- are materialized reflection of Orion’s belt (The Three Marys). In Greek mythology was a giant and a great hunter. From the southern hemisphere the hunter is turned, as seen in the image, and Rigel are Saiph foot while the right shoulder is represented by a club raising Betelgeuse and Bellatrix left by holding a lion skin. The solstice is aligned with the galactic center The precession of the equinoxes runs so slowly on the sky to see the running of one degree a man need to wait 72 years, and to complete a precessional turn must pass 25,868 years. Just about 26,000 light years is the distance that, according to modern astronomy, separates us from the center of the galaxy. During the solstice of December 21, 2012 came the great cosmic event of coincidence of the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere with the center of the galaxy, great event because this alignment occurs only once every 26,000 years due to the precession of equinoxes. The curious fact is that looking at a starry night to the center of the galaxy (the end of the constellation Scorpius and Sagittarius principle), we are directing our eyes to the sky in a place where light rays converge ago that left 26,000 years ago with those who are coming out right now 26,000 light years from us. Astronomy developed during the heyday of the Maya culture in Central and North American continent managed to synchronize, in a calendar cycle, the circulation of such local movements for us as are the moon and sun, as with other as far distant from the center of the galaxy. During this month, the end of a 26,000-year astronomical cycle is present.
