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Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
This is the trouble with most things, people interpret the data with the bias they hold, and that means they are probably wrong. Hank, you want to see planets and so your entire depection of the image rests on them being planets, but in reality, the idea of them being coins is in fact a lot more sense and renders a more likely explanation of the image, including that the "plate" is under the last falling coin.
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True Phantom, but the same bias holds for the opposite side of the coin (pardon the pun), where an apparent image of a ringed planet is instead viewed as coins being thrown onto someone's lap. The bias is that it cannot be a ringed planet because it would go against conventional ideas, no matter what. I don't have that bias. I see a definite rendition of Venus, the Sun and Moon, and then a ringed circle that should be a celestial object based on the context of the other 3 known images (Venus, Sun, Moon). What celestial object would ever be depicted with a ring? Only Saturn. To see it as anything else is just plain denial, and biased.
Again, we're assuming it's real when it may be fake, but it's becoming apparent to me that there were Assyrian myths of Saturn having rings. This could very well be a depiction of that myth. But where did they get that idea? BTW, I'm still looking...