Theories like the OCT, GOCT, and GPWT can prop themselves up like a house of cards indefinitely when they are based on a false premise. This is what I tried to convey to Scott when I first saw his presentation – but he only seems to see the wonderful complexity of where his theory went after that point. But the false premise is the key, and it’s evident right here – there simply isn’t the sufficient evidence over the relevant period of Egyptian history to make any safe correlation with Orion.

It’s all down to seeing what you want to see in the layout of the three Giza pyramids, and very little else beyond that.

For me, the recent posts from Robert Bauval and Scott are indicative more than anything of how little material has been found to support this central Orion link – vague mentions here and there, astronomical manipulations, things alluded to, stretched interpretations, reading words and symbols in a selective way – but the most telling thing is the disproportionately small amount of evidence there is in comparison to the huge timescale, effort and physical presence of the pyramids themselves.

The contemporary religious and cultural pointers to Orion which should exist commensurate with the scale and importance of the pyramids simply aren’t there – and they should be, in the same way that a future archaeologist investigating our society would find innumerable cross or crucifix symbols and textual references to support his theory that our vast cathedrals (many laid out in the shape of a cross) are indicative of a widespread religion in our culture that involved the worship of a crucified man.

If Orion was important enough to the AEs for them to mimic it in the groundplan of the largest construction project imaginable, then it would surely be important enough to leave traces in every walk of life: jewellery, pottery, other monuments, hieroglyphs, all depicting or mimicking the three Orion stars. The same way the Christian cross permeates every aspect of our society.

That is the elephant in the room – the complete lack of corroborating evidence on a scale commensurate with the pyramids. If there was, I’m sure Mr Bauval – with his diligent searching over the past few years - would have found it by now.

In all these years, Robert has unearthed some interesting scattered references to do with Orion, but I hazard a guess that anyone who looked long and hard enough could come up with meaningful references to almost ANY constellation, individual star or planet visible to the AEs in the night sky. Andrew Collins, for instance, has produced the Cygnus correlation theory - along these lines - to rival the Orion one.

But this is the primary, inescapable point on which everything turns: the correlations are false, unproven premises. As has been pointed out time and time again on this forum, the layout of the Giza pyramids can much more safely be explained in terms of geology. Once that is clear, bang goes the Orion correlation: the layout may look vaguely like the three Orion stars (or indeed part of Cygnus), but this is coincidental and not intentional. Once that is established, everything, absolutely everything which follows in the OCT, the GOCT, prescession wheels or the Cygnus Correlation Theory is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what you look for, or how long you spend looking for it after that point. I believe you could spend the rest of your life trying to make the scant evidence support the structures these theories have conjured up, but it doesn’t matter, because the foundations are fatally flawed. The key again and again is the initial correlation, which does not exist. If it does exist, it has not been proved.

Wonderful, imaginative theories in their own way, but complete houses of cards. To me there is no logic in arguing back and forth about small astronomical references and inferred meanings, as if they have any impact whatsoever on the eventual validity of these theories which all – all - fall long before this, at the first hurdle.

When an entire premise is flawed, any advanced debate over minutae is simply wallpapering over the fundamental cracks with decorative historical and astronomical detail.