Intiwatana  is also called the sun stone, this curiously shaped stone block is believed to have been a solar clock or “the hitching post of the sun”, where the sun rays cast shadows used for the plann
The Intiwatana stone, known as the hitching post of the sun, is believed to have functioned as a solar clock. © Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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