# The site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for…

> Most likely: The site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for setting dates.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/answers/ANS0D9KVK0E0E6Z/the-site-was-a-sun-shrine-where-the-solstices-and-equinoxes  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

---

[Questions](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions)[Great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon)[Was the Fajada Butte spiral made and used as a solar calendar?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KV4BP04RM/was-the-fajada-butte-spiral-made-and-used-as-a-solar)Answer

Answer · Great houses of Chaco Canyon

# The site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for…

The site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for setting dates.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Offerings or shrine features at the site; descendant practice links such markers with shrines, not with setting dates.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence that Chacoan ceremonial dates were set from the marker.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Ethnography of the descendant peoples links sun daggers with sun shrines, where a sun-watcher kept vigil with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KVKG244EY/ethnography-of-the-descendant-peoples-links-sun-daggers-with)

Suggestive

FOR

[The marker would not have worked well to regulate the calendar, though it may have been a sun shrine.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KVK881W3A/the-marker-would-not-have-worked-well-to-regulate-the)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Was the Fajada Butte spiral made and used as a solar calendar?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KV4BP04RM/was-the-fajada-butte-spiral-made-and-used-as-a-solar)

Part of [Do the buildings and markers at Chaco encode astronomy?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTT3J4BBQ/do-the-buildings-and-markers-at-chaco-encode-astronomy)

Most likelyThe site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for…

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). The site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for… [Answer ANS0D9KVK0E0E6Z]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D9KVK0E0E6Z
```

Key

**ANS** 0D9KVK0E0E6Z

Kind

Answer · hypothesis

Origin

Published

Version

1

Added by

[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

The record

Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history.

[JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/ANS0D9KVK0E0E6Z)