Robert Bauval Wrote:
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> > It is often virulently claimed on the Message
> Board that there is no connection whatsoever
> between Khufu and Osiris.
No, it is categorically stated that there is no evidence of a connection between Khufu and Osiris.
>
> Notwithstanding the identification of defunct
> king's of the Pyramid Age to 'Osiris' in the
> Pyramid Texts,
Texts and kings that postdate the pyramid in question by two centuries...
> or the alignment of the southern
> shaft of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid
> to Sah-Osiris,
There is no such "alignment" that satisfies the cosmological demands of a daily revivification of the king. In addition, there is no evidence of sAH-Osiris dating to any time prior to the Sixth Dynasty. In addition, there has been questioning of the association of sAH with the beltstars of Orion.
These numerous problems with the claim you are making seriously weaken the viability of the argument in which it is being used.
> nor the naming of the Giza
> necropolis 'the place/burial of Osiris' in the New
> Kingdom,
When did this happen? The entire pyramid field from Abu Roash to Saqqara is known as Rostau. When was Giza singled out?
This claim doesn't, perchance, relate to your circular logic argument I've already pointed out (but you never responded), does it? Here's the RDCV:
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What we do not see, at any point in the Old Kingdom, is a reference to the Giza necropolis as being a single conceptual construct. It is only your circular logic that permits Giza to be known as "Rostau", because you begin with the assumption that the Giza pyramids were representative of the beltstars, and then you superimpose those stellar relationships (including the land of Rostau) back onto the plateau, and thus arrive at a single name for the Giza site. If I may quote you from "Secret Chamber":
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"Giza, the earthly Rostau, is located on the west bank of the River Nile. Thus by transposition, we can deduce that the celestial Rostau is a region of the starry sky on the west 'bank' of the Milky Way. p. 95
Your tenuous link that Giza is the "Highland of Aker" is also circular in its reasoning. You are the only one linking Giza to Osiris, then you use that preconceived conclusion as evidence that the Highland of Aker (the domain of Osiris) must refer to Giza.
Most respected references to the land of Rostau include all the pyramids from Saqqara to Abu Roash. Breaking out a piece of that geography is, to my knowledge, an unevidenced speculation. You are welcome to disagree, but if you do, please provide the factual references from Egyptian sources in the Old Kingdom as your support.
> it is ironic --and perhaps extremely
> relevant-- that the only known depiction of Khufu
> is a small ivory statue found at the temple of
> Osiris at Abydos by Petrie in the early 1900s,
> which is displayed in the 4th Dynasty room at the
> Cairo Museum.
It's really not telling of anything at all... except for his later unpopularity, probably based upon the myth that perpetuated itself for thousands of years that he was a cruel despot.
One cannot escape the logical, rational, factual criticism of an idea by endlessly restating the idea. Eventually, one has to look at the work and acknowledge the fatal flaws... and move on. The OCT came and went. It doesn't do any good to pretend otherwise.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.