MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Anthony,
>
> Do you accept that the 'importance' here is
> presumed and in actuality might have been nothing
> more than a number of kings/pharaohs/architects
> finding the ratio sufficiently aesthetically
> pleasing to incorporate it in one or more parts of
> the respective designs of their pyramids?


Yes, but that's not the topic of discussion here. I was specifically addressing the people who look at the design convention of a 4:3 rectangle and then imaginatively insert the 5 and assume the builders intended it.


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> Do you accept or rebut the hypothesis that not
> every aspect of a pyramid's design had to be of
> some religious (in its broadest sense and to
> include spiritual, mythological et al)
> significance?


I neither accept nor reject it. There is not sufficient data to make that judgment.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.