tiompan wrote:
The exceptions , i.e. the classic major monument examples , alone should be enough to alert us to an interest
An interest most definitely, a preoccupation with or major reason to build, i'd say no.
tiompan wrote:
There is the regional variation whereby some areas, at some point , choose a "quarter " to orient their monuments towards ,and this can change over time in the same area .
How do we know that had anything to do with the sky?
tiompan wrote:
What is clear though is that the vast majority face the part of the sky where the sun or moon will be seen sometime in the year . Admittedly that is a large percentage of the horizon , but the remaining percentage is much bigger than the tiny percentage of monuments that don't face the sun or moon .
But why such vagueness when we know they can get it* spot on when desired?
*are we to blame in deciding what is significant?
tiompan wrote:
There is also a significant percentage that face roughly east i.e. 60 - 120 degrees .