Ken B Wrote:
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> Hi Joe,
>
> Thanks for tracking that down. Perhaps Cocteau
> was on one of his opium highs when he wrote that.
> It seems he clearly had a vision of the three Giza
> pyramids being the Orion belt stars decades before
> Robert.
> I don't have my copy of The Orion Mystery anymore,
> but as I recall, Robert wrote that the original
> idea of the belts stars corresponding to the Giza
> pyramids struck him while he was on the Plateau,
> looking at the night sky towards Orion. Can you
> or someone come up with that reference? He
> mentioned a jackal passing near him and gazing at
> the starry sky, then having an inspiration of the
> belt star correlation to the pyramids.
I made the correlation in the Saudi Arabian desert near the city of Riyadh in 1983. The 'jackal episode' had happened weeks earlier at Giza in the daytime, and was reminiscent of how the Pyramid Texts were found in a somewhat similar way in 1881.
>
> I wonder if Robert read Cocteau's highly poetic
> Orion correlation.
>
> Ken
No I hadn't. But it certainly is very interesting to know that Cocteau (intuitively?) made the connection, although rather vaguely and in a weird metaphoric manner, but hadrly an 'orion correlation theory'. I also seem to recall that something was mentioned about the 'three kings' and the pyramids by Peter Lemesurier in his book The Great Pyramid Decoded; I don't have my copy with me, but I faintly recall it was in an appendix to his book.
I did indeed make the same connection between the 'three kings' and the Giza pyramids in an article I wrote on 'The Star of Bethlehem'; I also speak of this in Keeper of Genesis in an appendix. But my deduction was based on the Belt stars of Orion being the herald of the 'star in the east' i.e. Sirius.
I now wonder if the 'dog' in Cocteau's statement about the Sphinx is in reference to Sirius, the Dog Star. If so, then the same idea also came to Robert Temple (The Sirius Mystery).
All this is most curious. It gives me a strange feeling of serendipity.
RB