<HTML>No. I'm just saying that the Giza-Orion correlation would have gotten substantially less public exposure had a link with a lost civilisation not been made. Its 3 pyramids and 3 stars out of 100+ pyramids and millions of stars - so what?
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Public exposurre is no measure of importance.
I have always been under the impression that there were no small questions in Archeology. Perhaps I got it wrong.
At any rate, if we can establish that there was a ground plan for Giza, I think that this would hardly be insignificant. Morevoer, there may be further implications of which we are as yet ignorant.
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Orion was significant to the AEs but if they considered it to be important to their culture and religion to mimic it with their layout of pyramids why did they not mention that anywhere?
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I don't know. Do you know why they would?
I really don't think we can use cross-cultural, psychological speculation as an argument against a statistical relationship between monumental structures.
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The Orion - Osiris identification used by Bauval is made on the pyramid texts from the 5th dynasty why didn't they mention the correlation with the Giza pyramids then too?
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Again....I don't know...but I don't think you have any clearer idea as to why they *should* have done this.
It is my belief that Bauval's evidence from the PTs (and other myth sources) provides at least some circumstantial evidence for his OCT. Not proof of course, but evidence.
The OCT can only be proven with statistics (and this is as close to *proof* as Astronomical Archeology can get).
Until now, the link between Orion and Giza has been *very* suggestive, but perhaps not statistically solid. The alteration I have made (which amounts to little more than a shift eastward of the measuring point) appears to me to render the relationship almost mathematically *exact.* The odds of such a relationship arrising by chance (I expect) is almost nill. If so, the OCT can be considered statistically established.
My only fear is that, with only three points in this relationship, the statistial evidence may not be as strong as I hope. However, I believe I may have detected some additional correlative elements that may indeed bolster my claim.
The Mortuary Temple-OCT (all credit to Robert Bauval for his great original insight and research!), if it holds up, provides further evidence for the almost unbelievable astronomical abilities of the Ancient Egyptians!
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