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Originally posted by rawsom
Well, we are certain about some facts about pyramids on giza plateau.
All of them were a lot higher back when built, and several meters of each have eroded away of taken away by ancient builders needing shaped rock.
You could call their level of skill going back in time, degenerating to an earlier perioid in time but that is not neccessarily the case. After giza plateau was completed, none of the rulers ever again builded anything as massive. I suppose they got reasonable and thought that workforce would be better of by doing farming and other activities that produce basic supplies any society needs.
Newer pyramids were just smaller, and about the same amount eroded or was taken away from those as well - thus, piles of rubbish.
Originally posted by woodwytch
and by the time they'd finished they were either too tired ... or couldn't be bothered to fill-in or make good, the unfinished subterraneous chamber.
Nope, sorry I just can't buy with that ... so I'd be really interested to hear what anyone else has. Woodwytch
Oh, don't forget keep it friendly everybody
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by kerkinana walsky
You've been reading crap and believing every word.
How would you know what Ive read? How would you know I havent read all the scholary literature on ancient egypt?
Completely baseless.
I am by no means an expert on the topic and base my claim on intuition.
The Pyramid's features are so large they can be seen from the Moon. Its base covers 13.6 acres. (equal to seven midtown Manhattan city blocks)
If the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height, the result is 3.14159, which just happens to be Pi. Incredibly, this calculation is accurate to six digits. So the Pyramid is a square circle, and thus Pi was designed into it 4,600 years ago.
The Pyramid is located at the exact center of the Earth's land mass. That is, its East-West axis corresponds to the longest land parallel across the Earth... the odds of it's having been built where it is are 1 in 3 billion.
The average height of land above sea level (Miami being low and the Himalayas being high), as can be measured only by modern-day satellites, happens to be 5,449 inches. That is the exact height of the Pyramid.
As measured by today's laser instruments, all of these perfectly cut and intentionally bowed stone blocks duplicate exactly the curvature of the earth. The radius of this bow is equal to the radius of the Earth!
They were able to construct something that we still cannot construct today, and they were able to tie all these things together in this single structure. Were they extraterrestrial?
How did the Egyptians build an immense structure like this [the pyramids]? We do not know all the details even now. It is clear from what remains that they used huge limestone blocks, but there are still problems over how they managed to slide one block across another, and of the way in which the walls and ceiling of the inner chamber are supported. Obviously they used a block and tackle to lift the blocks, but even so the precise method of getting objects so large and heavy up hundreds of feet without a tall crane to help them is uncertain, while their technique of supporting the internal blocks is completely unknown.
From the astronomical point of view, the single unarguable fact is the extreme care taken in the orientation. The most extraordinary result is found at the pyramid of Cheops, but the precision is scarcely less with Chephren and Mycerinus. Such close approximations repeated by many buildings cannot be accidental, and bear witness to certain astronomical knowledge. From the mathematical point of view, the study of the pyramids, and especially the great pyramid reveals very remarkable geometrical properties as well as numerical rapports that deserve attention. But the whole problem that this poses is to establish the extent to which the builders were aware of these properties.
At the same time, it is difficult to understand the manner in which these scholars came to many of their conclusions, given the nature of the material at their disposal. A statement made by Ludwig Borchardt, one of the most industrious and prolific of Egyptologists, captures the situation in a single sentence. In 1922, having proved that the pyramids of Egypt were oriented to the cardinal points and sited and levelled with a precision that could not be surpassed today, Borchardt concluded that Egyptian science at the time of the building of the pyramids was still in its infancy.
Ancient sources reported that the pyramids, and the Great Pyramid of Cheops in particular, were built to embody in their dimensions and proportions a wealth of astronomical, mathematical, geographic and geodesic data. (Geodesy: the branch of applied mathematics which determines the figures and areas of the earth's surface.) One of Napoleon's scholars, Edme François Jomard, was particularly intrigued by this theory. But while certain of his calculations seemed to bear out the idea, others did not jibe. Accurate measuring of the pyramid overall was then impossible due to the sand and debris around the base, and as is generally the case in science those data that supported prevailing orthodox theory were retained, while those that were embarrassing were ignored.
In England, however, Jomard's ideas were taken up by an amateur astronomer, mathematician and religious zealot, John Taylor, who found many astonishing coincidences between the measurements and proportions of the pyramids and the then but recently verified modern measurements of the earth. He could not attribute this to chance. As a fundamentalist, however, Taylor believed in the literal truth of the Bible, and could not bring himself to attribute such knowledge to the ancient Egyptians a race much abused in the Old Testament (though Moses learned his wisdom at the court of the pharaoh by Biblica l account). Given his fundamentalism, Taylor had no choice but to call in direct divine intervention, and the pseudoscience of 'pyramidology' was born.
As the numbers 1296 and 864 were the key to unravelling the astronomical and geodetic secrets of the Great Pyramid, they may in due course resolve the mysteries of the Mesoamerican pyramids. Is it a coincidence that a circle of 1,296,000 units has a radius of 206,265 units and that 20,6264 is the length of both an English and an Egyptian cubit, that the Hebrew shekel weighs 129.6 grams, and the English guine a 129.6 grains, and the measure of the Most Holy in Solomon's Temple is 1296 inches? Not only was the number 1,296,000 the numerical basis for astronomical measurements as far back as the records are traceable, it was also the favorite number in Plato's mystic symbolism.
Looking for phi Ancient sources claimed Egypt as the original home of geometry. Though biographies of Pythagoras were all fragmentary, secondhand and therefore unreliable, all agreed upon this point: that Pythagoras had acquired much of his learning in the East.[Note, wiki confirms Pythagoras was advised to head to Memphis in Egypt and study with the priests there who were renowned for their wisdom. en.wikipedia.org...]
Arguments had long ranged over whether the proportions of the Great Pyramid were deliberate or purely fortuitous. The pyramid's height stands in a precise pi relationship to the perimeter of the base. Pi (3.1416) is the transcendental that defines the ratio between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. At the same time, pi is related to another, more interesting, irrational, phi, the socalled Golden Section. It had been observed and ignored by Egyptologists that not only the Great Pyramid but the other pyramids as well made use of different phi relationships in their construction.
Schwaller de Lubicz therefore set out to discover whether or not phi relationships were built into the Temple of Luxor. If this could be proven beyond doubt, it would corroborate these fragmentary ancient sources and force a reconsideration of the extent of ancient knowledge.
If it could be shown that the Egyptians possessed advanced mathematical and scientific knowledge, it would not only prove as many suspected that the famous Greek intellectual flowering was but a pale and degenerate shadow of what had been known previously; it might also help substantiate the legend persisting throughout history, and widespread among the people of the world, that great civilisations had existed in the distant past even before Egypt. In seeing the Temple of Luxor as an Egyptian Parthenon, Schwaller de Lubicz was seeing more than an exercise in harmony and proportion for its own sake. Aesthetics played a secondary role in the sacred architecture of the past.
The Greek Parthenon was built to the virgin Athena (parthenos means virgin in Greek). The symbolism of the virgin is widespread and extremely complex, and it operates upon many levels. But its fundamental metaphysical significance is the creation exnihilo the universe created out of nothing, out of the void .
Form is intimately related to junction. The octahedron or double pyramid is the most compressed or densest form. It occupies the smallest percentage of the volume that encloses it, while the sphere occupies the greatest. So the densest forms of matter, minerals and crystals, tend to octahedral or related forms; volatiles and gases expand to fill a sphere.
The octahedron is the imprisoned fire of the 'seed', the materialized aspect of the sphere, which is symbolically spirit. Among their many functions, the great pyramids of Egypt served as models of the northern hemisphere, and the choice of the pyramid shape was based upon symbolic as well as geodesic and architectural considerations.
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The tetractys:-
1 + 2 + 3 + 4= 10
The tetractys , regarded as sacred by the Pythagoreans, contains within itself the keys to harmony , which in turn govern creation.
4:3 = the Fourth
3:2 = the Fifth
2:1 = the Octave
And the double octave in quadruple ratio: 4:1 Though the tetractys as a symbol seems peculiar to the Pythagoreans , the same Number symbolism is widespread. Hindu mythology speaks of the 'Nine Cobras of Brahma', a parallel to the Grand Ennead arranged around Atum. The Cabbala refers to the Nine Legions of Angels about the throne of the hidden God, 'He whose name is hidden' . The tetractys represents metaphysical reality, Plato's 'ideal world', complete within the framework of a fourterm system. Creation requires five terms. The pentactys represents the manifested tetractys. en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by woodwytch
So going back to your interest in the Mayan Pyramids, I'd be interested to hear your theories on the original purpose of the Mica Temple at Teotihaucan. Considering the discovery of the 2 x 90ft sq sheets of brazilian mica laid beneath the stone floor of the temple ?
When I read in Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods' that the mica in question was the type used in the cooling systems of nuclear reactor because of its natural dielectrics, it set me thinking.
A few kilometeres northeast of Mexico City stands the ancient site of Teotihuacan. The most striking visual and striking structure of Teotihuacan is the towering pyramid of the sun. The pyramid contained considerable locally mined mica in layers up to one foot thick