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23.5 Degrees
Part 4: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man
Da Vinci Decoded, (DVD, 2005)
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown (Corgi 2004)
Author's Note:
I owe the initial findings in this drawing to Don Barone, who began looking for the angle of 23.5º after I allerted him to the fact that many of the paintings that fascinated him, contained references to this angle. See here:
Those who have read Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code (2002) will recall his mention of Da Vinci's well known drawing Vitruvian Man. This drawing remains one of the most referenced and reproduced artistic images in the world today.
Da Vinci's drawing was inspired by the Roman architect Vitruvius and clearly illustrates his work De Architectura which reads:
"4 fingers make 1 palm; 4 palms make 1 foot; 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man.
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
From the roots of his hair to the bottom of his chin is a tenth of a man's height; from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head is one eighth of his height; from the top of the breast to the roots of the hair will be the seventh part of the whole man.
From the nipples to the top of the head will be the fourth part of man.
The greatest width of the shoulders contains in itself the fourth part of man. From the elbow to the tip of the hand will be the fifth part of a man; and from the elbow to the angle of the armpit will be the eighth part of man. The whole hand will be the tenth part of the man.
The distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose and from the roots of the hair to the eyebrows is, in each case the same, and like the ear, a third of the face".
"The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. It is not alone by a circle, that the human body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen by placing it within a square. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square".
45 "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo Da Vinci.
But something that everyone appears to have overlooked about this drawing is the reference it makes to the angle of 23.5 degrees!
46. The 23.5-degree angles made by the arms and legs
What I find interesting about this is that Don Barone had discovered this by superimposing the Vitruvian Man over a painting of the crucifixion of Jesus. Being curious about the angles of the arms, of Jesus as he hung from the cross, I measured his arms which were at an angle of 23.5º . Reminded of Vitruvian Man when I told him, Don then did the next logical thing and superimposed Vitruvian Man over the painting of the Crucifixion and "lo and behold" . . . See here:
After Don's insight, I could see something else in this drawing and I began to take it further.
I saw the circle around Vitruvian Man as symbolic of the Earth and from the navel which is at the centre of the circle, I began to divide the circle into six segments. The Earth is divided vertically into six 30-degree 'lattitude' segments. In the northern hemisphere and from from the North Pole to the Equator, the earth is divided 90º , 60º and 30º - the same from the South Pole to the Equator in the southern hemisphere. The Equator marked by the navel, represents 0º .
47. The circle divided vertically into six 30º segments to reference the major lattitudes of the Earth
Another Encoded Reference to the Great Pyramid and Giza?
By drawing these lattitude lines, I could then see that perhaps Giza and the Great Pyramid were being referenced yet again.
If we look at where the 23.5 degree lines intersect at the heart and look at how this circle has been divided into 6 x 30 degree lattitudes as we have on the earth, then we find that the heart of Vitruvian Man is 30º away from the equator.
Again, Giza and the Great Pyramid are 30º away from the equator and it is seen as the "heart of the world" as the Great Pyramid is situated at the centre of the Earth's landmasses. See here:
Are we again being told again the the Great Pyramid contains information about the earth's axis?
Is this what Da Vinci intended by superimposing the outstretched limbs on Vitruvian Man at 23.5 degrees?
If so, then in Da Vinci's mind, could the image of Vitruvian Man be really Osiris and also Jesus on the cross of space and time opposites?
Through my own research I discovered that the River Nile of Egypt also represented the backbone or spine of Osiris and therefore also the earth's axis. Others are now coming to this: See here and here.
If the earth was upright, then so would the Nile, which is what the raising of the Djed and the upright crucifixion cross are metaphors for - i.e., the erect, upright axis: perfectly centred for man to reach heaven and the kingdom of god - being Atum-Ra (the ecliptic centre) - the father god of Osiris-Horus and Jesus. Well this appears to have been the belief as this makes sense of a lot of things that have hitherto remained a mystery.
Was Da Vinci aware of this line in the Hermetic texts?
"Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven or, to be more precise, that everything governed and moved in heaven came down to Egypt and was transferred there? If truth were told, our land is the temple of the whole world."
48. If the Great Pyramid and Giza are situated at the centre of the earth's landmasses as many believe, and If the circle here represents the circumference of the Earth, then the Heart of Vitruvian Man pinpoints the 30º lattitude location of Giza and the Great Pyramid - the Nile resembling the spine and indeed the central serpent sushumna channel of the Kundalini chakra system
"The earth lies in the middle of the universe, stretched on her back as a human might lie facing toward heaven . . . Her head lies toward the south . . . her right shoulder toward the east, and her left shoulder toward the west; her feet lie beneath the Great Bear [North] . . . But the right holy land of our ancestors [Egypt] lies in the middle of the earth; and the middle of the human body is the sanctuary of the heart, and the heart is the headquarters of the soul; and that, my son, is the reason why men of this land . . . are more intelligent [wise]. It could not be otherwise, seeing they are born and bred upon Earth's heart".
It is said that the Renaissance was inspired by the discovery of the Corpus Hermeticum texts around 1460. If my theory is correct and Da Vinci was aware of this paragraph and had been inspired to encode it in his most famous drawing based on Vitruvius' divine measurements of the human body, then he did not use an upside position of the body on the earth as described in Asclepius, but an upright body, because as we can see the heart is now where Giza is on the map. The fact that the 23.5-degree angles also intersect at this point, tells me that Da Vinci may be telling us that indeed the Great Pyramid contains geophysical information about the earth's axis, and as we will see this is a fact, and why shouldn't Da Vinci have known about this? - especially when we note that other artists had been bringing attention to these same angles and perhaps for the same reason. It would seem that Da Vinci had also encoded the same information as many other artists - including Poussin, more of which I will soon reveal, and so here we are dealing with THE 'real' code, which has been added to throughout history, and one that everyone has overlooked - except those "in the know" . . .
