Jammer - you ask a couple of 'HOW' questions in your post. The one 'HOW' question you did not ask is this:

How on Earth is it possible for a group of ancient people to demonstrate - through the relative placement of the so-called 'Queens Pyramids' - the precessional 'swing' of the Orion Belt stars? This is not - like Bauval's OCT - a simple eye-to-ground correlation. This motion had to be CALCULATED using advanced mathematics and a sound understanding of the astronomy of these stars in order to PROJECT their relative positions and place the positonal markers accordingly (the 'Queens'). If we cannot credit this level of knowledge to the AEs or Sumerians - as it seems we can't - then HOW did it get there?

That's the start point, Jammer. Answer that first. That is what I have been trying to do.

Jammer: When asked how, in the absence of any written record, these plans could be passed down, you linked to a computer graphics rendition of the Giza Pyramids. Does this mean you think this "ancient society" had computer graphics?

SC: You know perfectly well that I am in no way advocating that whoever put this design together used computers. That is just absurd. The graphic I linked to shows a model of Giza and this model - because it is designed to mimic Giza - contains within itself the properties of the precessional swing of the Orion Belt stars. It is not impossible that a model of some kind, perhaps crafted in granite or maybe even in gold - was passed down from the mythical 'First Time', from a relatively advanced civilisation now lost to us. In such a form, advanced precessional knowledge could easily pass down through a 100,000 years if need be.

Jammer: HOW? They believed their ruler was God incarnate. The most vital need would be to please him with the layout of his tomb. Ma'at, duat, and all creation as they knew it depended on this balance. Why would you feel "secretly the builders would want to follow a design to please a society that was now dead in excess of 8,000 years over their own God-King?"

SC: In much the same way, 2,000 years later, Christians still build churches in the shape of the cross, this model would have become sacred. It became part of the AEs cultural and religious beliefs. The AEs themselves tell us that their ancient architectural plans came from the 'heavens'. It is not so unusual that something so sacred would have been regarded as 'building heaven on Earth'. They would have seen this as their duty. And only, in the time of the 4th Dynasty when they had at last mastered building the true pyramid, did they finally put their heaven on Earth at Giza. After that the urgency for pyramid building was gone - the plan was complete. And we see this in the subsequent, inferior pyramid structures and finally a comlete shift away from pyramids to the MTs.

SC