<HTML>Sorry I haven't answered you before with anything substantial ... I was at work and it's hard to think with phones ringing and customer's calling ....
As I've said to you before... I have no real problem with the belt stars being represented on the ground in the form of the three main Giza pyramids. I only have a problem when the 10,500 date is forced in ... and the LC.... now that everyone knows what I've told you before I'll go on ...
I hadn't really paid that much attention to the detail or information on the central court of the mortuary temples. But on page 125 of <i>The Complete Pyramids</i> there is some interesting information on this area.
For those who don't have this book.... I'll quote it here.... and this information is in reference to Kharfre's pyramid
(all typos are mine)
<i>Next in sequence came the open court, the pillars of which, encased in granite, were so broad that they formed piers around the courtyard. In front of them were 12 granite statues standing in pits or sockets in the white alabaster floor. Holscher suggested that there were standing statues of the king in the form of Osiris. But Herbert Ricke argued for seated statues of the king wearing the nemes scarf. Our excavations of the ‘workmen’s barracks’ west of Kharfre’s pyramid produced a clue suggesting that we should reconsider the form of these statues. These galleries turned out to be not living quarters but a royal workshop (p238). Among the finds was a fragment of a model of the king wearing the crown of south, with a back pillar painted to imitate granite. The pillar projects in an upside down ‘L’ over the crown, as did the colonnade roof over the pillars of the court of Khafre’s mortuary temple. Intriguingly, we have a series of striding royal statues wearing the crown of the south, usuped by Ramessess II but made much earlier. Their bases fit closely the sockets around the court of the Khafre mortuary temple. Futher study should confirm whether or not these derive from here. </i>
It's too bad for your idea that the idea of the statues being in the form of Osiris went (seemingly) with the discovery of the statue in the workshop, that would have tied in nicely.
But your placing the stars in the courtyards of the temple (which seems to have been the happening place to be .. so to speak) is really interesting ... and I'd like to see someone more informed than I am take a good look at it ....
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