MJ Thomas Wrote:
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>
> > > Hello Anthony,
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on the sequence of this
> > planning,
> > > i.e. what the architect started with
> and
> > ended
> > > with?
> > >
> >
> > You start with the placement of the
> sarcophagus on
> > the west side of the westernmost chamber in
> the
> > structure. Everything else radiates out
> from
> > that, conceptually and spiritually.
>
> Hello Anthony,
>
> Your reply does not answer the question, which
> was: Any thoughts on the sequence of this
> planning, i.e. what the architect started with and
> ended with?
Yes, it did answer the question... very specifically.
>
> You have the sarcophogus being placed "on the west
> side of the westernmost chamber in the
> structure."
> But this does not, in the case of Khufu's pyramid,
> explain which chamber was designed first.
Yes, it does.
> Was it the Subterranean Chamber, the Queen's
> Chamber, or the King's Chamber.
I am at a loss to understand how this can be asked after my very clear statement above was written and then quoted by you.
Clearly the burial chamber was the first chamber designed.
> And what followed it?
> The remaining two Chambers - but in what
> sequence?
> The Descending Passage?
> The Grand Gallery?
> The Antechamber?
Irrelevant. You are looking at this pyramid like it is some kind of radiating mathematical equation.
That is not how the Egyptians looked at it. Ergo, what you see has nothing to do with what they did or why they did it.
>
> As for the westernmost chamber, in Khufu's case
> that is the Subterranean Chamber.
Not originally. The western side of the SC does not appear to be part of the original design. That's why it is still in such condition today.
> Any thoughts how they were going to get an
> adequate sized coffer in to this Chamber?
The burial chamber was built around the sarcohpagus. Had they been forced to use another chamber due to the early demise of the king, they would have used a different sarcophagus (obviously).
> Perhaps they planned to carve one out of the
> bedrock...
Limestone would not have been adequate for the job of holding the body of a king.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.