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will2learn
reply to post by Scott Creighton
However storing seeds in a building that a) had water in it and b) bats could negotiate their way into is foolhardy to say the least.
That 'afterlife nonsense' (whether there is or is not 'more' is not even the point) has our current world in an armageddon doom script countdown because people believe in it so much they are self-fulfilling prophecying it....that same script has been playing out since nearly day 1 of the human species.. I'd not be so quick to be dismissive with such an ultra-potent a meme.
will2learn
reply to post by KellyPrettyBear
KPB
That 'afterlife nonsense' (whether there is or is not 'more' is not even the point) has our current world in an armageddon doom script countdown because people believe in it so much they are self-fulfilling prophecying it....that same script has been playing out since nearly day 1 of the human species.. I'd not be so quick to be dismissive with such an ultra-potent a meme.
I do not believe in the Armageddon stories for the simple reason I've no evidence that ppl can predict the future with any accuracy. Of course there will be catastrophic events, but the best way to protect against them is simply to distribute ppl and resources. Ppl use the End of Days prophecy for their own reasons, it inspires and gets ppl to conform.
I dismiss the after life nonsense of the mainstream because once you read it its as silly as some alt theories. Clearly a lot of it was invented by some ignorant superstitious types who had no idea how pyramids worked or why many grand structures were built. the mainstream seems to indulge the tradition with verve.
Will
Given that the early giant pyramids were essentially hermetically sealed, there were no bats. Once opened then that is an entirely different issue.
The vast quantities of seed found in, under and around the Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara did not show any sign of water/flood damage so it seems the pyramid here did its job. Also, the secondary evidence of grain storage in G2 did not seem to be affected by water damage so I am not so sure that any water reached any of the upper chambers of the GP. And if any flood waters had ever reached the lower chamber of the GP then they would also have reached the underground galleries of the Step Pyramid. If there is indeed water damaged in the lower, subterranean chamber of the GP as some researchers maintain, then I don't think it impossible that this damage might have occurred BEFORE the Great Pyramid was constructed at that location. We see water damage in the Sphinx Enclosure but most geologists attribute this damage to runoff from the plateau. I think, given that the location of G1 is lower than G2 that run-off from flash-floods could have affected the location of G1, penetrating the fissures in the rock in the mound below G1, resulting in the water damage that these researchers have observed.
SquirrelNutz
Broom
How many have seen this video:
It seems that if one engineer has a mind to figure out by himself how to move such huge stones, what requires that someone from the past could not have figured out something else?
The pyramids are indeed a mystery though. The broom cannot say with any certainty what was the inspiration behind their building, just like anyone else. Sometimes I speculate though, that perhaps they indeed had demonic inspiration and knowledge built into them.
Yes, I;m assuming most have seen this.
Regardless, of how impressive this feat is, there is no way 2-1/2 MILLION perfectly carved blocks were put in place every 90 seconds for 20 years, using this method.
will2learn
reply to post by Scott Creighton
A marker could be left indicating where to start digging.
Scott Creighton
will2learn
reply to post by Scott Creighton
A marker could be left indicating where to start digging.
SC: Indeed. And it was. It's called a pyramid. (In Scotland we call them cairns). Anything smaller and less robust would simply have been washed away in the anticipated great Deluge of Thoth. So yes--you could store essential recovery goods in a cave in a mountain and then build a massive pyramid marker on top of the mountain; a pyramid marker big enough that it won't get washed away in the anticipated deluge. But, if you are having to build such a massive artificial marker anyway, why not simply use that structure in which (and around which) to store your recovery items? As an artificial marker (rather than a natural mountain) it will stand out in the landscape much more obviously and thus be found and explored very quickly. Hence why we find the large, robust pyramid markers (cairns) atop the high plateaus of Egypt.
Over and above which--this is what the ancient texts tell us. The AEs, having observed some disturbance in the heavens which caused the stars to depart from their normal course, decided to build pyramids as 'arks'. And, if you read some of the earliest writings that describe 'The Ark', lo and behold, it took the form of a pyramid.
Regards,
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SC: Indeed. And it was. It's called a pyramid. (In Scotland we call them cairns). Anything smaller and less robust would simply have been washed away in the anticipated great Deluge of Thoth.
So yes--you could store essential recovery goods in a cave in a mountain and then build a massive pyramid marker on top of the mountain; a pyramid marker big enough that it won't get washed away in the anticipated deluge. But, if you are having to build such a massive artificial marker anyway, why not simply use that structure in which (and around which) to store your recovery items? As an artificial marker (rather than a natural mountain) it will stand out in the landscape much more obviously and thus be found and explored very quickly. Hence why we find the large, robust pyramid markers (cairns) atop the high plateaus of Egypt.
Over and above which--this is what the ancient texts tell us. The AEs, having observed some disturbance in the heavens which caused the stars to depart from their normal course, decided to build pyramids as 'arks'. And, if you read some of the earliest writings that describe 'The Ark', lo and behold, it took the form of a pyramid.
will2learn
reply to post by Scott Creighton
SC: Indeed. And it was. It's called a pyramid. (In Scotland we call them cairns). Anything smaller and less robust would simply have been washed away in the anticipated great Deluge of Thoth.
This is absurd, Cairns are just the remnants of old round buildings.
Scott Creighton
"MA: So as I understand you, you are taking the 3 Giza Ps back roughly 10K years before Romer's 6KBCE superflood, which would mean that it wiped out everything except them [and the Sphinx].
SC: Not just the Gizamids but those at Abu Roash, Saqqara, Dahshur and Meidum. In short, the first 16 pyramids the AEs constructed as per Plutarch’s Myth of Isis and Osiris which tells us the body of Osiris was divided into 16 parts (some versions say 14 parts). The AE Pyramid Texts inform us that “...this pyramid... is Osiris... this construction... is Osiris...” On the basis of these fragments or ‘clues’, it seems to me that the first 16 pyramids were (or rather, became) the ‘body of Osiris’. Indeed, if we ‘join the dots’ of these first pyramids we find—somewhat curiously—that they present to us a rudimentary match-stick Osiris.
The AEs were most certainly anticipating a great Deluge—the Deluge of Thoth—and this is why (so they tell us) they built these first pyramids, to preserve within them “...all that was of esteem in the kingdom...” (Saurid).
This would typically have included all manner of tools, sacred texts, many types of seed, many types of storage/distribution vessels etc. And this is, of course, what has actually been found, or at least some remnants.
I know many theorists suggest all manner of mathematical knowledge having been encoded into the pyramids, pi ratio, phi etc. My own personal view is that these ratios can work their way inadvertently into the proportions of the structure i.e. without the designer ever being aware of them.
I agree—the designer’s COULD have designed all their structures more or less the same if they simply wished to construct recovery vaults but there were others aspects to their plan—they wanted to use these self same recovery vaults in such a way (configuration) as to also commemorate or ‘register’ the time in which they were built.
A bit like the star map in the forecourt of the Hoover Dam complex that uses the stars to commemorate when the dam was constructed.
The pyramid recovery vaults do the same and they do it in a quite ingenious way which requires the size of the Gizamids to be the different sizes that we observe. This is partly explained in my previous book The Giza Prophecy and is explained further with additional evidence in my new, forthcoming book The Secret Chamber of Osiris. I am presently in the process of creating a Flash presentation to more easily demonstrate how this is done. I will post when I have it finished.
Certainly there were practical and logistical constraints. The fact is the AEs built all these early pyramids on the high plateaus where there was immediate access to limestone quarries.
This concurs with my own view that only one star (Al Nitak) in Orion’s Belt came to embody the spirit of Osiris (Sah).
"While there is every likelihood that the Osirian material in the Pyramid Texts derives in part from a much earlier date, so far it has not proved possible to track down the god or his symbols tangibly to the First or Second dynasty." (Emphasis mine). - John G. Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult, p.44
Scott Creighton
Cosmic4life
reply to post by Scott Creighton
Hmmm ... I have issues with the GP Timevault theory.
If A Data dump existed ... where is it ??
If you're going to build a structure to store all the worlds knowledge ....
SC: ???? Where have I said this? Over and above which - this is not "...the GP Timevault theory". It is not JUST about the GP but a theory that explains ALL the early, giant pyramids. The other pyramids do have to be explained you know.
sapien82
will2learn
reply to post by Scott Creighton
SC: Indeed. And it was. It's called a pyramid. (In Scotland we call them cairns). Anything smaller and less robust would simply have been washed away in the anticipated great Deluge of Thoth.
This is absurd, Cairns are just the remnants of old round buildings.
not true a cairn is a pile of rocks stacked as a marker !
you can find many of these up and down Scotland in different sizes usually at the top of mountains
pretty much every single mountain in Scotland has a cairn , at least every single one of the Munroes has one
they are not remnants of old buildings
they range in functionality from astronomical markers/ sepulchral or just indication of hunting grounds
Cosmic4life
reply to post by Scott Creighton
That aside .. I think there could be a vault beneath the Sphinx .... The Sphinx was an Anubis/Jackal/Dog in the prone position ... these are only seen perched on a box in statuettes and on cartouches ... so I'm pretty sure the Sphinx is sitting on an underground vault.
Would be nice if the Egyptian Gov/Hawass let us have a look.
C..
sapien82
reply to post by Scott Creighton
Hey Scott you doing any lectures on your most recent findings in Glasgow soon ?
I remember reading a few of your posts a while back on various pyramid threads !
will2learn
I NOTE YOU ARE STILL IGNORING THE WATER
Will
H. Rider Haggard, She and Allan
[Allan Quatermain] “I have heard of Isis of the Egyptians, Lady of the Moon, Mother of Mysteries, spouse of Osiris whose child was Horus the Avenger.”
[Ayesha] “Aye, and I think will hear more of her before you have done, Allan, for now something comes back to me concerning you and her and another. I am not the only one who has broken the oaths of Isis and received her curse, Allan, as you may find out in the days to come. But what of these heavenly queens?”
“Only this, Ayesha: I have been taught that they were but phantasms fabled by men with many another false divinity, and could have sworn that this was true. And yet you talk of them as real and living, which perplexes me.”
“Being dull of understanding doubtless it perplexes you, Allan. Yet if you had imagination, you might understand that these goddesses are great principles of nature: Isis of throned Wisdom and strait virtue, and Aphrodite of Love as it is known to men and women who, being human, have it laid upon them that they must hand on the torch of life in their little hour. Also you would know that such principles can seem to take shape and form and at certain ages of he world appear to their servants visible in majesty, though perchance today others with changed names wield their sceptres and work their will. Now you are answered on this matter.”
Melkor
When again the gates of Mandos opened for me, I hardly knew myself still to be. Within Mandos there is no light, no sound, no motion, no other thing at all. Imprisoned there, I slowly began to unform, until I was but a mere thought that clung only to itself. It was this fragile wisp that the Valar found when finally they chose to release me, and they laughed as they sent it drifting back to Máhanaxar.
What's starting to emerge here is the unpleasant picture of the 3GPs, and the GP in particular, as a mechanism to disrupt the psyche of any self-conscious sentient entity (SCSE) spending any amount of time therein.
Within Mandos there is no light, no sound, no motion, no other thing at all. Imprisoned there, I slowly began to unform, until I was but a mere thought that clung only to itself.
-Melkor