Anthony Wrote:
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> From the site:
>
Quote:I asked myself one simple question, “Could
> the crook fit over the small protrusion at the top
> of the djed?” This idea led me to imagine the
> column in three dimensions like some type of round
> post. The four cross bars would now look like
> spools. Then, so to speak, the penny dropped! I
> view the djed as a capstan, a tall capstan with
> three roped spools, two for power and one for
> rewinding the ropes.
>
> Typical ethnocentric projection. What he sees is
> irrelevant. It's what the Egyptians saw that
> matters... and I can assure you they didn't see a
> windlass, or a spool, or a capstan.
>
> The Djed was a sacred object... not an implement
> in a toolbox. He provides no background for the
> discovery, no evidence of technological evolution,
> nor any explanation for why it vanished from all
> records.
>




> Just another case of "this is how I would do it",
> rather than "this is how THEY did it".


And HOW did they do it Anthony ?

Ronald.