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'When the Oxford astronomer John Greaves visited Egypt in the seventeenth
century he collected ancient local traditions which attributed the
construction of the three Giza pyramids to a mythical antediluvian
king:
The occasion of this was because he saw in his sleep that the whole
earth was turned over, with the inhabitants of it lying upon their
faces and the stars falling down and striking one another with a
terrible noise ... And he awakened with greate feare, and assembled
the chief priests of all provinces of Egypt ... He related the whole
matter to them and they took the altitude of the stars, and made
their prognostication, and they foretold of a deluge. The king said,
will it come to our country? They answered yes, and will destroy
it. And there remained a certain number of years to come, and he
commanded in the mean space to build the Pyramids ... And he engraved
in these Pyramids all things that were told by wise men, as also
all profound sciences - the science of Astrology, and of Arithmaticke,
and of Geometry, and of Psychicke. All this may be interpreted by
him that knowes their characters and language...'[1]
'The Sacred Sermon, a Hermetic text of Egyptian
origin speaks with awe of lordly men 'devoted to the growth of wisdom'
who lived 'before the Flood' and whose civilization was destroyed:
'And there shall be memorials mighty of their
handiworks upon the earth, leaving dim trace behind when cycles
are renewed ...'[2]
The Great Pyramid at Giza is the last surviving
of the Seven Wonders of the World. Most of the Wonders were destroyed
by earthquakes and other natural disasters, some were destroyed
by the hand of man. Though the shining white casing that once armored
the Pyramids fell away and was cannibalized for the early construction
of Cairo, the Great Pyramid remains, silent, awesome and enigmatic,
still posing questions which elicit answers that demand more questions
until we are left baffled by the magnitude of the intelligence that
went into its original conception.
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Some of the theories behind the construction of the Pyramids have
been discussed in another part of this site. They can be accessed
by clicking on the pyramid icon above. There you'll find some evidence
of how the Great Pyramid subtly links with the universal mythology
the ancients left us.
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The
Great Pyramid holds many puzzles to draw the curiosity of the active
mind. Amongst those outside are several boat-shaped pits along the
monument's southern side, containing ocean-going vessels a 100 feet
and more long. One of the pits was excavated in the 1950's. The
141 foot cedar wood ship found inside remains in perfect condition,
4500 years since it was built, and can be viewed in the so-called
Boat Museum near the Pyramid.
'With a displacement of around 40 tons, its
design was particularly thought-provoking, incorporating, in the
words of one expert, 'all the sea-going ship's characteristic properties,
with prow and stern soaring upward, higher than a Viking ship, to
ride out the breakers and high seas, not to contend with the little
ripples of the Nile.'
Another authority felt that the careful and clever design of this
strange pyramid boat could potentially have made it 'a far more
seaworthy craft than anything available to Columbus.' Moreover,
the experts agreed that it had been built to a pattern that could
only have been 'created by shipbuilders from a people with a long,
solid tradition of sailing on the open sea.'[1]
Egyptologists hold that these sophisticated
(and big) ships were built and then buried in the sand to act solely
as vessels to transport the soul of the deceased Egyptian king to
the heavens. Independent scholars call this into question, citing
the Ancient Egyptians' skill in making scale models and representations
of all kinds of things for symbolic purposes.
Further, this is not the first time ancient mariners, mapmakers
and shipbuilders have come to light in connection with the birth
of civilizations. We can safely keep the ships in mind.
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Napoleon
is said to have been fascinated by the Pyramids - he went so far
as to spend a night inside the Great Pyramid during his conquest
of Egypt:
'He emerged the next morning looking pale
and shaken, having experienced something that had profoundly disturbed
him and about which he never afterwards spoke.'[3]
In the heart of the Great Pyramid, in what
is called the King's Chamber, lies a lidless, dark chocolate-colored
granite sarcophagus. This object is what Egyptologists allege the
entire Great Pyramid was built to house. When the King's Chamber
was first opened it was bare and empty, for all but the sarcophagus
- which was also empty. The sarcophagus' exterior measurements were
7 feet 5.62 inches in length, 3 feet 5.31 inches in depth, and 3
feet 2.5 inches in width - an inch too wide, incidentally, for it
to have been carried up through the lower entrance to the ascending
corridor leading up to the King's Chamber.
Some routine mathematical games were built into the dimensions of
the sarcophagous. For example, it had an internal volume of 1166.4
litres and an external volume exactly twice that 2332.8 liters.
Such a precise coincidence could not have been arrived at accidentally:
the walls of the coffer had been cut to machine-age tolerances by
craftsmen of enormous skill and experience.
The only way granite of such hardness could
have been cut is with massive saws with cutting points harder than
jewels.
"The character of the work would certainly
seem to point to diamond as being the cutting jewel; and only considerations
of its rarity in general, and its absence from Egypt, interfere
with this conclusion..."[4]
An even greater mystery surrounds the hollowing
out of the sarcophagous. The visible evidence suggested circular
drills were used, with the same jeweled blades. This brings up more
questions.
"The amount of pressure, shown by the
rapidity with which the drills and saws pierced through the hard
stones, is very surprising; probably a load of at least a ton or
two was placed on the 4-inch drills cutting in the granite. On the
granite core No 7 the spiral of the cut sinks 1 inch in the circumference
of 6 inches, a rate of ploughing out which is astonishing ... These
rapid spiral grooves cannot be ascribed to anything but the descent
of the drill into the granite under enormous pressure..."[4]
Hancock sums it up clearly:
'Wasn't it peculiar that at the supposed dawn
of human civilization, more than 4,500 years ago, the Ancient Egyptians
had acquired what sounded like industrial-age drills packing a ton
or more of punch and capable of slicing through hard stones like
hot knives through butter?'[1]
Further evidence of such advanced technological
workmanship is scattered throughout Egypt, Giza in particular. Flinders
Petrie, from whom the former quotations came, was unable to explain
the kind of instrument capable of cutting hieroglyphs into a number
of diorite bowls which he found at Giza. Diorite is one of the hardest
stones on earth, far harder even than iron. Besides the bowls, tens
of thousands of stone vessels have been discovered in the Step Pyramid
of Zoser, as well as in pre-dynastic strata dated several thousand
years earlier. These had been mysteriously hollowed out of a range
of materials such as diorite, basalt, quartz crystal and 'metamorphic
schist'. Hancock studied them and poses the appropriate questions:
'Whether they were made in 2500 BC or in 4000
BC or even earlier, the stone vessels from the Step Pyramid were
remarkable for their workmanship, which once again seemed to been
accomplished by some as yet imagined (and, indeed, almost unimaginable)
tool.
Why unimaginable? Because many of the vessels were tall vases with
long, thin, elegant necks and widely flared interiors often incorporating
fully hollowed-out shoulders. No instrument yet invented was capable
of carving vases into shapes like these, because such an instrument
would have had to have been narrow enough to have passed through
the necks and strong enough (and of the right shape) to have scoured
out the shoulders and the rounded interiors. And how could sufficient
upward and outward pressure have been generated and applied within
the vases to achieve these effects?'[1]
These of course weren't the only unusual vessels
unearthed. Nevertheless ...
'In all cases what was really perplexing was
the precision with which the interiors and exteriors of these vessels
had been made to correspond - curve matching curve - over absolutely
smooth, polished surfaces with no tool marks visible.
There was no technology known to have been available to the Ancient
Egyptians capable of achieving such results. Nor, for that matter,
would any stone-carver today be able to match them, even if he were
working with the best tungsten-carbide tools. The implication, therefore,
is that an unknown or secret technology had been put to use in Ancient
Egypt.'[1]
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Let's return to the pyramids themselves, and another source. Like
Velikovsky, Hancock's research tends to dominate the field at times.
Without elaborating on the matter further myself, I will take an
extract concerning the Pyramids of Giza from the thoughtful and
convincing work of Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, When the Sky Fell, In
Search of Atlantis.
'In 1994, another remarkable event occurred
with the publication of Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert's The Orion
Mystery. They discovered that the layout of Egypt's great pyramids
followed the pattern of the constellation Orion as it would have
appeared in the year 10,450 BC. Orion, representing a giant star-belted
god striding across the heavens, appears near the Milky Way, which
to the Egyptians seems to flow in an immense stream across the heavens.
Its counterpart on earth was the Nile river. The three pyramids
of Giza mirror the positions of the three stars of Orion's 'belt'.
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Bauval
and Gilbert, using precessional astronomy, dated the actual construction
of the Great Pyramid to 2450 B. But unexpectedly, they discovered
that although the massive stones were placed at this time, the layout
of the pyramids depicted the pattern of Orion at the much earlier
time of 10,500 BC.'
Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock follow the
study up in Keeper of Genesis, pointing out that the 'Bent' and
'Red' Pyramids of Dashur - 20 miles away - correlate very precisely
with the pattern in the sky of the two most prominent stars in the
Hyades, the horns of the Taurus constellation.
The mystery of Giza is of course not confined to the Pyramids. The
200-ton limestone blocks used in the construction of the Valley
Temple, and the Osireion much farther south are another enigma.
Even with late twentieth-century technology there are only a handful
of cranes in the world that could lift and position such gargantuan
stones. The perplexing mystery of how the Pyramids themselves were
built are too well-known to enter into here, but present even more
impossibilities.
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By
following the trail of astronomy Bauval and Gilbert had come to
an independent conclusion that the Pyramids' original lay-out corresponded
to the period 10,500 BCE. Another independent conclusion upsetting
Egyptologists came unexpectedly from the science of geology. The
evidence of the American scholar John Anthony West focused on certain
structures - notably the Great Sphinx, Valley Temple and Osireion.
'He argued that these desert monuments showed
many scientifically unmistakable signs of having been weathered
by water, an erosive agent they could only have been exposed to
in sufficient t quantities during the the damp 'pluvial' period
that accompanied the end of the last Ice Age around the eleventh
millennium BC. The implication of this peculiar and extremely distinctive
pattern of 'precipitation induced' weathering, was that the Osireion,
the Sphinx, and other associated structures were built before 10,000
BC.'[1]
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The effect this had on Egyptologists was summed up in the NBC-TV
presentation, the Mystery of the Sphinx:
"West is really the academic's worst
nightmare, because here comes somebody way out of left-field with
a thoroughly well thought out, well presented, coherently described
theory, full of data they can't refute, and it pulls the rug out
from under their feet. So how do they deal with it? They ignore
it. They hope it'll go away ... and it won't go away."
Dr. Robert Schoch, a professor of Geology
at the Boston University played a prominent role in validating West's
theory concerning the true age of the Sphinx after visiting the
site himself. Schoch's conclusions were later endorsed by 300 peers
at the 1992 annual convention of the Geological Society of America.
'Since then, most often out of the public
eye, an acrimonious debate had begun to smoulder between the geologists
and the Egyptologists. And though very few people other than John
West were prepared to say as much, what was at stake in this dispute
was a complete upheaval in accepted views about the evolution of
human civilization.'[1]
According to West:
'We are told that the evolution of human civilization is a linear
process - that it goes from stupid cavemen to smart old us with
our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste. But the proof of the
Sphinx is that many, many thousands of years older than the archeologists
think it is, that it preceded by many thousands of years even dynastic
Egypt, means that there must have been, at some distant point in
history, a high and sophisticated civilization - just as all the
legends affirm.'[5]
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A high and sophisticated civilization, which the legends do affirm,
once inhabited Egypt. This is what the geologists infer and the
astronomers deduce. It is also, of course, something that independent
scholars have suspected long before Napoleon, and ever since, until
recently. Now it would appear we are getting verification, new proofs,
that delve deeper into the history of mankind than the establishment
of orthodox learning is prepared to accept.
"Egyptologists find facts to fit their
theories when they should be making theories based on the facts."[6]
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Edgar Cayce, America's famous 'Sleeping Prophet', predicted that
a chamber would be discovered beneath the Sphinx - a chamber containing
the recorded history of human civilization.
CONTINUE
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