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The Sun in Tetrapylons

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The Sun in Tetrapylons: A Report on Discovering the Relationship between Tetrapylons, Time and Variation in the Declination of the Sun

The Sun in TetrapylonsReza Moradi Ghiasabadi is a well-known Iranian researcher with a novel insight into History and Archeaology. After becoming familiar with his works, I asked him to let me translate the report of one of his research projects explaining his theory on the functionality of the Persian tetrapylons as solar structures. This theory has been confirmed by some experts and many evidences, validating it, have been found. The first part of this book is the translation from the last Persian edition of the book The Persian Tetrapylons published in 2010. The second part of this book is published herein for the first time except Chapter 13, Heidentor Tetrapylon, which has been published as a paper in Journal of Persia Digest (2012).

Ghiasabadi begins The Persian Tetrapylons with an old poem: “That building on the hillside is a place for time and time measurement.” This poem is from Shahnameh, authored by Ferdowsi, who is the greatest Persian epic poet in the tenth century AD. Ferdowsi narrates the ancient historical-storied events of Iranian people in Shahnameh. Ferdowsi quotes the mentioned poem from Zal, who is a Persian mythological character whose functions relate to the time and Zurvan. In fact, Ghiasabadi starts his book with a thousand-year-old poem which describes a building on a hillside with calendrical functionality, so this poem can be an allegory of a tetrapylon. [...]


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