Principia Wrote:
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> Ronald Wrote:
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> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> > The referring by the Ancient Egyptians in
> the
> > Pyramid Texts to Orion, had a much greater
> impact
> > on our view on AE-'astronomical
> > alignment/orientation' than it deserves, imo.
>
> >
> > Many people seem to firmly believe that this
> > ancient population, that in the case of the
> 4th
> > Dynasty lived approx. 4500 (!) years ago,
> > intentionally and 'meticulously' star-aligned
> its
> > monuments and even the very narrow and long
> > (not-straight) shafts through the immense
> mass of
> > Khufu's Great Pyramid.
> >
> > That is all very nice, but can somebody
> explain to
> > me HOW this 'alignment/orientaion' was
> performed
> > (thus WITHOUT the aid of sophisticated
> technology)
> > ?
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> Why is sophisticated technology required to point
> at something? They see a star at such-and-such a
> heigth above the horizon as it transits the
> meridian, then copy that angle over a distance as
> it grows in the pyramid. A child with remedial or
> no knowledge of anything can make something point
> at something. Hardly 'sophisticated', no?



Principia,


What I actually meant was that with our technology, we can 'demonstrate' any 'alignment/orientation' WE want, if we try and search long enough (remember all the threads with or without images of the Orion Belt, 'extrapolated' to Giza). But this does not mean that the AE intentionally star-aligned their monuments. How can we know beyond any doubt that e.g. the Khufu-shafts were oriented to Orion, while this orientation was performed in the situation as it existed approx. 4500 years ago ? We were not there. How do we reconstruct this situation as it exactly was in the life of the AE from the 4th Dynasty ?


Ronald.