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Originally posted by sealing
There are no markings in the Great Pyramid.
see above, or perhaps one should ask what would you accept?
No evidence that it was indeed a tomb
The Great Pyramid simply appeared from a historical standpoint.
It was learn to cultivate crops then, Boom! The Great Pyramid, All pyramids after the 1st, are a downgrade in Architecture and build quality.
Originally posted by crawdad1914
Interesting thread idea. Will #5 technology detail the time frame for the building of the great pyramid in particular?
Mainstream views on time frame in relation to all other aspects is crucial to this I think.
Peace.
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by crawdad1914
Interesting thread idea. Will #5 technology detail the time frame for the building of the great pyramid in particular?
Mainstream views on time frame in relation to all other aspects is crucial to this I think.
Peace.
Yes along with #11 and other dating methods. The second of the two C-14 studies looked at a wide range of structures, those dates, and later ones from independent studies seemed to have set the date range for the AE.
Tomorrow
Originally posted by Hanslune
This thread is to look at what evidence the mainstream uses to support the theory that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids and for their use as tombs for their Pharaohs.
1. A complete lack of any evidence for another culture to have built them while at the same time massive amounts of evidence that the AE were there and evidence too of AE contact with other cultures around them
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia,
2. Writing inside or on the pyramids and writing associated with them by the Egyptians themselves
Of the 100+ pyramids, six have direct textual attestation of their afterlife function
Only the writing of AE and later civilizations has been found in them and in association with them
3. The ancient, classical and later writers all refer to them as tombs. The Romans built one pyramid themselves and it was used as tomb
4. The rubble, the rubble from the quarries (located near the pyramids) where the stone for the pyramids come from was dumped back into the quarries and those dumps were dug into during the 19th century. What was found in them? Cultural material from the Egyptians, no body else’s
5.Technology, the pyramids were built using very (to our eyes) crude technology, using hammer stones, fire and water, bronze chisels, hand drawn bronze grit saws, etc. Which are found in the pre-dynastic and later Egyptian periods.
Originally posted by Hanslune
This thread is to look at what evidence the mainstream uses to support the theory that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids and for their use as tombs for their Pharaohs.
If you want to add remember to reference the number if making a specific comment or addition
11. The C-14 tests, putting the pyramids and other monuments into the time frame attested by early work on king lists, two arrays of tests
13. The ancient Egyptian religion: The religion concentrated on the pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Although he was deemed a human, the pharaoh was believed to be descended from the gods. He acted as the intermediary between his people and the gods, and was obligated to maintain communication between the gods and man through rituals and offerings so that they could maintain order in the universe. The ancient Egyptians dedicated enormous resources to the performance of these rituals and to the construction of the temples to honor the Gods. An important aspect of the religion was the belief in the afterlife and funerary practices. The Egyptians made great efforts to ensure the survival of their souls after death, providing tombs, grave goods, and offerings to preserve the bodies and spirits of the deceased. This devotion to the Pharaoh and preservation of his body led to the pyramids. As we have seen in other cultures, excessive resources have been used to massage an elites ego by preparing a massive burial edifice or gifts.
Appendix B
The Chronologies of Kings.
Manetho's Chronology: The divine and pre-dynastic dynasties: From Manetho, according to Eusebius, extracted from Pochan (16).
Dynasty of Gods. 30,544 BC 13,900 yrs.
Dynasty of Demi-gods. 16,644 BC 1,255 yrs.
First line of Kings 15,389 BC 1,817 yrs.
Thirty more Kings of Memphis. 13,572 BC 1,790 yrs.
Ten Kings of This. 11,782 BC 350 yrs.
Spirits of the Dead. 11,432 BC 5,813 yrs.
First Dynasty: Menes. 5,619 BC 253 yrs.
Second Dynasty: Boethos. 5,367 BC 302 yrs.
Third Dynasty: Necherophes. 5,065 BC 214 yrs.
The Fourth Dynasty: Petrie quotes Manetho from an extract in 'Fragments' from 1832. He notes that while the 3rd kingdom is said to be composed of Memphite kings, and the 5th dynasty of Elephantine rulers, the 4th dynasty was supposed to have been composed of 'eight Memphite Kings of a different race'. The list is as follows:
Soris. (4,85 BC). Reigned 29 years.
Suphis. (4,829-4,766 BC). Reigned 63 years. (He built the largest pyramid; He was arrogant towards the gods, and wrote the sacred book).
Suphis II. Reigned 66 years
Mencheres Reigned 63 years.
Rhatoeses. Reigned 25 years.
Bicheres. Reigned 22 years.
Sebercheres. Reigned 7 years.
Thampthis. Reigned 9 years. = Total 284 years (12).
And on for 4,497 yrs until :-
The Thirty-second Dynasty: Lagid - 332 BC.
The Abydoss Kings list:
Third Dynasty.
Huni. End of 3rd Dynasty. Abydoss list, Reigned 24 yrs (5)
Fourth Dynasty.
Snofru. Founder of 4th dynasty
Huni (also read as Ni-Suteh[3], Nisut-Hu[4] and Hu-en-nisut[5])
Other Chronologies.
1st Dynasty.
Menes. (Narmer). (5867 BC - Champillion), (5702 BC - Broeckh), ( 5004 BC - Mariette), (4455 or 4400 BC - Brugsch), (3892 BC - Lepsius), (3623 - BC Bunsen), (2320 BC - Wilkinson). (11)
Aha. (18)
King Djer (3rd Monarch).
Djet (Uadji). (18)
Den. (5th Monarch). ('Udimu' ref:18). Abydoss label (BM 55586), reads 'the first smiting of the east' (18).
Anedjib. (18)
Semerkhet. (18).
Qaa. (18)
2nd Dynasty.
1st Monarch either Raneb or Hotepsekhemwy. The later name meaning 'the Two Powers are appeased' (18).
Raneb. (18).
Nynetjer. (18)
Perisben. (6th Monarch). (BM 35597). The name is contained in a 'Serekh', surmounted by a 'Seth'-animal instead of a horus falcon. (18)
Khasekham - 'The power has appeared'. Serekh surmounted by a Horus falcon again. Changed his name to 'Khasekhemwy' (The two powers have appeared'), under both Horus and Seth fiures. (18)
3rd Dynasty.
Sanakhte. (His Serekh has Horus falcon).There is some doubt as to whether Djoser was the first or second Monarch of the 3rd dynasty. His rival for this position is Sanakhte, a shadowy king of which few monuments are known. (18)
Djoser (Netcherykhet). (2630-2611), reigned for 19 years.(10) His name is emphasized with red ink on the 'Turin king list' (18)
Horus Sekhemkhet. (2611-2603, reigned for 8 years.(10)
Khaba. (2603-2599, reigned for 4 years.(10))
Huni. (Last King) (Ref:10 has no Huni)
4th Dynasty.
Snofru (Sneferu, Seneferu). (2575-2551 BC, reigned 8 years.(10) Son of Huni. Married Queen Hetepheres I.
Queen Hetepheres I.
Kanefer. A son of Snofru. (18)
Khufu. (Cheops). (2551-2528 BC). Reigned 23 years.(10) Son of Snofru and Queen Hetepheres I. Married Queen Merytyetes. His vizier (prime minister) was Prince Ankh-haf, another son of Seneferu. Pochan, mentions that Cheops wrote 'The Sacred Book', still popular under the Lagid Dynasty (16).
Manetho (of Sebennytos) - (c. 280-270 BC) - The Egyptian High priest who said:
"There came up from the East, in a strange manner, men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdue it without a battle. All this invading nation was styled Hyksos, that is Shepherd Kings". (14)
The following extract purports to be a conversation between Herodotus and Manetho:
Extract from Miracle of Ages - 'In the course of his questioning he (Herodotus) encountered one Manetho, an Egyptian High Priest, scholar and Historian, with whom he conversed at length thru the agency of an interpreter. Manetho informed his distinguished guest that the architect of the huge mass of stone was one "Philition", or "Suphis", of a people known as the "Hyksos", that is "Shepherd Kings". According to Manetho, the Shepherd Kings were "a people of ignoble race" who came from some unknown land in the East; they were a nomadic band who numbered not less than 280,000 souls; they brought with them their families and all mobile possessions, including vast flocks of sheep and herds of cattle; and they "had the confidence to invade Egypt, and subdued it without a battle". this same people, said Manetho, overthrew the then-reigning Dynasty, stamped out idolatry and endeavored to firmly establish in the place thereof the worship of the One true God having completed the Great pyramid, migrated eastward into the land afterwards known as Judea and founded there the city of Salem, which later became Jerusalem, the Holy city.' He also says of 'Suphis' that 'He was arrogant to the gods and wrote the sacred book, which is regarded by the Egyptians as a work of great importance'. (7)
Pochan says that according to Manetho,' the erection of the great pyramid is assigned to the reign of Cheops (Khnum-Khufu, 4829-4766 BC),
Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by Hanslune
Hiya Hans, it seems nobody wants to bite.
If I can adopt the role of fringe-believer for this one post, I'd say it's mightily convenient that all this evidence supports the mainstream view.
Some might say suspiciously convenient (1).
Don't you think that the lost white race (2) who really built the pyramids were smart enough to cover their tracks (3)? If they can build a galactic star-gate (4) using levitation (5) to point the way to their home world - it's hardly surprising they can outwit your so-called 'archaeologists' (6) is it? What with the collusion of the Smithsonian (7) brainwashing Lehner (8) to oppose the Truth-Speaker (9) Hancock, we are simply missing the message (10). I despair at the how Hawass (11) was allowed to use his secret tunnels (12) to steal from the Hall of Records (13).
With their technology, they deliberately chose to use stone so the message could only be interpreted by the Gnostics (14). It misleads those who are trapped in their paradigm (15) and shines the way for the real Truth-Seekers (16). The quarries are to send people on the wrong track (17) and the writing is simple graffiti by Egyptians who came much later...long after the Ancient-Ones (18) had returned home. I have seen images of carvings done with laser-precision (19) that could not be done by such simple people (20) and everyone knows that diorite cannot be shaped by iron! (21) When the wheel of precession (22) comes around, the pyramids will be activated (23) and a New Age (25) of peace and love will send our consciousness (26) to a higher vibration (27).
Did I miss any memes, themes or keywords out?
Pochan says that according to Manetho,' the erection of the great pyramid is assigned to the reign of Cheops (Khnum-Khufu, 4829-4766 BC), the second king of the Fourth Dynasty and the twenty-eighth king of Egypt, starting with Menes.'. Also that in his epitome, handed down by Syncellus, the oldest pyramids mentioned are those of Kochme (Cho, in the Armenian version of Eusebius), the work of Uenephes, the fourth king of the First dynasty. He says that Suphis (second King of the Fourth dynasty) built the great pyramid (neither Cheops nor Khufu?), and that Queen Nitocris (sixth ruler of the sixth dynasty), built the third pyramid. (16)
Seiss (15), adds that 'Manetho is quoted by Josephus and others, as saying "We had formerly a king who's name was Timaus. In his time it came to pass, I know not how, that the deity was displeased with us; and they came from the east and when they had our rulers in their hands they demolished the temples of the gods" (see coreys fragments, p257) This Timaus of Manetho is doubtless the same person as the Chemes of Diodorus, the Ceops of Herodotus, and the Chufu or Suphis of the monuments'. And that "some say they were Arabians" which left Egypt in large numbers and went to "That country now called Judea, and there built a city and named it Jerusalem".
(Note: Check Manetho text in 'Fragments' by Isaac Preston Cory, Cambridge. 1832).
Josephus. - Extract from Seiss (15)
'Josephus the learned scribe, gives it as historical fact that Seth and his immediate descendants "were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was going to be destroyed, they made two pillars (Note: Masonic association), the one of brick, the other of stone. They inscribed their discoveries on both of them, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain and exhibit these discoveries to mankind." He also said, "Now this (pillar) remains in the land of siriad (Egypt) to this day." (Jewish antiquities, I, 2).
Middle Kingdom Papyrus at Leiden (Ref: 5 pp. 58).
'The contemporary account of 'Ipu-wer', is a long list of lament, revealing a state of turmoil and revolt. "All is in ruin" he said, "A man kills his brother. Blood is everywhere. A few laws of the judgement hall are cast forth. Officials are slain and their records are taken away. The secrets of the kings of upper and Lower Egypt are divulged. What the pyramid concealed has become empty and the palace is destroyed'.
It is suggested that this text is a reference to the 're-opening' of pyramids.
Originally posted by crawdad1914
Great! The quarry, deliverey and placement in the 20 to 40 year build time frame of the Great Pyramid as expressed by the mainstream is allways a fun discussion.edit on 3-8-2012 by crawdad1914 because: spellingedit on 3-8-2012 by crawdad1914 because: spelling
Originally posted by sealing
Egyptians are the first culture to have
their greatest achievement, also be their first try.
That's plenty to keep me busy.edit on 3-8-2012 by sealing because: Add