"It was only while I was writing Heaven's Mirror that I began to look into another and much more controversial possibility - that a network of sacred sites might have been established all around the globe according to a longitude grid based on precessional numbers.

Thus, the massive sacred complexes on whích stand the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt and the fabulous temples of Angkor in Cambodia are on meridians 72 degrees of longitude apart; Pohnpei is 54 degrees of longitude east of Angkor; Easter Island is today the closest dry land to 144 degrees of longitude east of Angkor; the Bay of Paracas in Peru, dominated by the massive cliff drawing of unknown origin known as the 'Candelabra of the Andes', lies 180 degrees east of Angkor.

Frequently these sites are linked to flood myths, spoken of in ancient traditions as 'Navels of the Earth' (omphalos in Greek), and are rich in symbolism of obelisks, stone pillars, pyramids and other stone monuments.

All this I was already well aware of during my travels in India in February and March 2000. Yet I honestly did not expect when I came to Arunachela, despite its obvious and prevalent omphalos/lingam symbolism, that it too would prove to be located at a meaningful point on the same hypothetical 'precessional grid'.

I only looked it up in the longitude tables as a matter of routine. As soon as I did so, however, it was immediately obvious that a relationship based on significant precessional numbers does in fact exist between Arunachela and other grid sites - for it lies 24 degrees west of Angkor and 48 degrees east of Giza (respectively one-third and two-thirds of the 72 degrees of longitude separating the former from the latter)."

(Hancock 2)