Does the Lamat symbol depict a grand conjunction between Venus and Mars when the two planets were briefly aligned along a shared polar axis? The electrical discharge events that characterized this union would have been a memorable and dangerous chapter in Earth history.
Comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane studies the unique design of the Lamat from carvings on stone to high-energy density plasma experiments—and how this stellar image might be the “smoking gun” of an extraordinary planetary conjunction in the Neolithic period.
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