Were Greek temples oriented towards aurorae?

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Feb 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006a%26g....47a..14l&link_type=abstract

Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 1.14-1.18.

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Geophysics

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Two ancient Greek temples of Apollo at Bassae (Phigaleia, western Peloponnese, Greece), and Thermon at Aetolia, (Aetoloacarnania, western central Greece), have a north-south orientation of their main entrances. This is a rather rare alignment of temples in general and specifically of Apollo in classical Greece, where most of them have broadly an east-west orientation. Based on historical and mythological accounts, as well as astronomical orientation measurements, the northern direction orientation of these constructions may relate to the rare, albeit impressive, occurrence of aurorae borealis, the northern lights. These strong lights are attributed to god Apollo by the epithet ``hyperborean'', meaning to the northern lands. Attribution is supported by archaeomagnetic directional data accompanied by auroral occurrence during those times.

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