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The First Telescope!
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Hecate, the snake woman on the moon?
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By Clarence G. Underwood
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As you can see from the picture above, there appears there a woman with a snake. The 8th century BC Greeks worshipped Hecate. A snake woman which originated in Caria. The Greeks and Carians serviced Egyptian Pharaohs in many fights. Perhaps this is where some of the enhanced cult information originated for the Greeks! Many cultures spoke of and worshipped a woman in the moon. The Carians shared a frontier with the Greeks. In the 19th century Austen H. Layard found the Nimrud Lens during an excavation of some Assyrian ruins! Professor Giovanni Pettinato suggested that the lens may have been part of an ancient telescope and supports his theory by suggesting that the Assyrian depiction of Saturn with snakes around it could represent what would have been a telescopic interpretation of Saturn with its rings! It is my suggestion that that same telescope trained on the moon would have revealed an image of a woman next to a snake! This information would have diffused from the Assyrians to the Carians and then to the Greeks enhancing their worship of Hecate! Hecate was originally considered to have many snake attributes. Therefore I submit to you that telescopes may have added to the ancient study of the heavens and that the ancient astronomical knowledge may have benefited from telescopically aided observations. Perhaps that was the worlds first telescope!
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