Egypt Pyramid
"The dominant features of the Egypt Giza necropolis are,
of course, its three great Pyramids those conventionally
attributed to Khufu pyramid, Khafre pyramid and
Menkaure pyramid. In a sense they are what the entire, vast enterprise
proclaims itself to be all about, what the causeways lead towards,
what the `solar boats' are buried beside.
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Sprawling diagonally across the meridian axis of
the site, it is they, above all else, that the geometrical `Horizon
of Giza' appears to have been designed to circumscribe. Nothing
about them is accidental their original constructed heights, their
angles of slope, the measurement of their perimeters, even the pattern
in which they are carefully laid out on the ground all of these things
are purposive and laden with meaning. [1]. "
"The Egypt Pyramid was originally 481.3949 feet in
height (now reduced to just a little over 450 feet) and its four sides
each measure some 755 feet in length at the base. The second
Pyramid was originally slightly lower with a designed height
of 471 feet and has sides measuring just under 708 feet in length.
The Egyptian third Pyramid stands some 215 feet tall and has
a side length at the base of 356 feet. When they were built the Egypt second
Pyramid and the First Pyramid were both
entirely covered in limestone facing blocks, several courses of which
still adhere to the upper levels of the former. The First
Pyramid , by contrast, is today almost completely bereft of
its casing. We know from historical accounts, however, that it was
once clad from bottom to top with smoothly polished Tura limestone
which was shaken loose by a powerful earthquake that devastated the
Cairo area in An 1301. The newly exposed core masonry
was then used for some years as a crude local quarry to rebuild the
shattered mosques and palaces of Cairo.
All the Arab commentators prior to the fourteenth century tell us
that the Pyramid casing was a marvel of architecture
that caused the edifice to glow brilliantly under the Egyptian sun.
It consisted of an estimated 22 acres of 8 foot thick blocks, each
weighing in the region of 16 tons, `so subtilly jointed that one would
have said that it was a single slab from top to bottom'. A few surviving
sections can still be seen today at the base of the monument. When
they were studied in 1881 by Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie,
he noted with astonishment that `the mean thickness of the joints
is 0.020 of an inch; and, therefore, the mean variation of the cutting
of the stone from a straight line and from a true square is but 0.01
of an inch on a length of 75 inches up the face, an amount of accuracy
equal to the most modern opticians' straight edges of such a
length.'
Another detail that Petrie found very difficult to
explain was that the blocks had been carefully and precisely cemented
together: `To merely place such stones in exact contact at the sides
would be careful work, but to do so with cement in the joint seems
almost impossible . . ."
Also `almost impossible', since the mathematical value pi (3.14) is
not supposed to have been calculated by any civilization until the
Greeks stumbled upon it in the third century BC,"
is the fact the designed height of the Egypt First Pyramid 481.3949 feet bears the same relationship to its base perimeter (3023.16
feet) as does the circumference of any circle to its radius. This
relationship is 2 pi (i.e. 481.3949 feet x 2 x 3.14 = 3023.16 feet).
Equally `impossible' at any rate for a people like the ancient
Egyptians who are supposed to have known nothing about the
true shape and size of our planet is the relationship, in a scale
of 1:43,200, that exists between the dimensions of the Pyramid
and the dimensions of the earth. Setting aside for the moment the
question of whether we are dealing with coincidence here, it is a
simple fact, verifiable on any pocket calculator, that if you take
the monument's original height (481.3949 feet) and multiply it by
43,200 you get a quotient of 3938.685 miles. This is an underestimate
by just 11 miles of the true figure for the polar radius of the earth
(3949 miles) worked out by the best modern methods. Likewise, if you
take the monument's perimeter at the base (3023. 16 feet) and multiply
this figure by 43,200 then you get 24,734.94 miles a result that is
within 170 miles of the true equatorial circumference of the earth
(24,902 miles). Moreover, although 170 miles sounds quite a lot, it
amounts, in relation to the earth's total circumference, to a minus
error of only three quarters of a single per cent. [2]. "
"The Egypt First Pyramid has numerous features which leave
us without any doubt that its designers paid careful attention to
the stars and tracked their transit at the meridian. [3]. "
The Companions of Osiris
"The complication arises from the strong correlation, first demonstrated
in The Orion Mystery, between the three belt stars
of the Orion constellation and the ground plan of
the three Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. An overhead view shows
that the Egyptian First Pyramid and the second Pyramid
stretch out along a diagonal running 45 degrees to the south and west
of the former's eastern face. The Egypt third Pyramid,
however, is offset somewhat to the east of this line. The resulting
pattern mimics the sky where the three stars of Orion's belt
also stretch out along a `faulty' diagonal. The first two
stars (Al Nitak and Al Nilam) are
in direct alignment, like the first and second Pyramid,
and the third star (Mintaka) lies
offset somewhat to the east of the axis formed by the other two.'
The visual correlation, once observed, is obvious and striking on
its own. Additional confirmation of its symbolic significance, however,
is provided by the Milky Way, which the ancient Egyptians
regarded as a kind of `Celestial Nile' and which
was spoken of in archaic funerary texts as the `Winding
Waterway'.' In the heavenly vault the belt stars
of Orion lie to the west of the Milky Way,
as though overlooking its banks; on the ground the Pyramid
stand perched above the west bank of the Nile.'
Faced by such symmetry, and by such a complex pattern of interlocking
architectural and religious ideas, it is hard to resist the conclusion
that the Pyramids of Giza represent a successful
attempt to build Orion's belt on the ground. This
makes all the more sense when we recall the firm identification of
the Orion Constellation with the high god Osiris. But bearing in mind
the changes induced by the phenomenon of precession we must also ask:
`Orion's belt when?' `Orion's belt in what epoch?' [4]. "
References:
[1] - [4] Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, Keeper Of Genesis. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1996.
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