posted on Jul, 27 2012 @ 06:20 PM
Originally posted by Maxmars
Thank you for sharing your research, it is both interesting and offers some new directions future research might go.
I had been under the impression that at least in the case of the Great Pyramid, there was no writing inside. Is that true of the other pyramids as
well?
Hi Maxmars,
Thank you for your kind words - it is most appreciated.
Not a single one of the early giant pyramids of Ancient Egypt have ever been inscribed with any official texts inside or outside. They are completely
anonymous. The first pyramid with any texts written inside its internal chambers was the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara at the end of the 5th dynasty,
long after the first, giant pyramids were built.
Given our understanding of ancient Egyptian religious thought, this is a very peculiar situation for without the king's name (known as the
Ren)
inscribed within the tomb or upon the 'sarcophagus' within the tomb, the king's Ba (an element of the soul) would be unable to find its way to the
tomb, thereby consigning the king's soul to eternal oblivion. As such, these early, giant pyramids could never have been constructed as tombs since,
in the absence of the inscribed name of the king, they could never have functioned effectively as a tomb of the king. These early pyramids were not
conceived or constructed as tombs. They were something else.
Regards,
SC
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