Anthony Wrote:
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> I'm sorry, MJT, but we do know why they did many
> things they did inside the pyramid.
>

Well, Anthony, I'm even more sorry because nobody knows why any of the things we see in Khufu's pyramid were done the way they are (or appear to be).
All anybody can do is offer hypotheses or theories.

As for those things that today many see and accept as a fact - for example, the King's Chamber was Khufu's actual burial place - are in reality conclusions based on nothing more than circumstantial evidence.
Perhaps you can give some examples of the things inside this Pyramid that you know for a fact the why of their being done.

You write,
> However, including 345 triangles, or Pi, need an
> contextually proven cultural explanation of "why"
> to be considered. Without it, it's just
> numerological coincidence-hunting.

Why should everything done by Khufu's architect have been done strictly according to his culture; do you not accept that he could have planned and designed the interior of the Pyramid with an element of, how shall I say, freedom of expression?
For example, could it be that he made the KC floor 2 x 1 not because of some cultural demand but simply because it appealed to him (or his master) - let's face it, symmetry is universal in its appeal to us humans.

As for the 3:4:5 triangle appearing (seemingly) in the KC, ever heard of seked 5 1/4?
It is plausible that the architect did deliberately incorporate the 3:4:5 triangle in the KC, but as seked 5 1/4 and not as a Pythagorean triangle.


You write,
> So, I ask again: Why did the pyramid builders put
> a 345 triangle in the burial chamber?

Well, if this triangle's appearance inside the KC is, as some would have it, intentional (which I doubt), then I suggest that the most likely reason is that Khufu or his architect wanted it there simply because it appealed to them.*
There doesn't have to be a deeply ingrained, meaningful, religious, spiritual reason for everything about the pyramids, Anthony - their designers and builders were, after all, only human...
The king/pharoah may well have acted like he was a god, but underneath it all he, too, was only human.

MJ

*I attach much the same arguement to the pi phenonenon.
My main reson being that no two pyramids of the 4th Dyn have the same interior layout - indicating (at least to me) an element of choice being utiliised by the kings and or the architects behind them.