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May 5, 2024, 10:59 pm UTC    
October 10, 2007 05:33PM
Anthony Wrote:
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> MJ Thomas Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hello Anthony,
> >
> > You write, 'They did. Practical and
> functional
> > skills... not geomancy or numerology.'
> >
> > To avoid confusion please could you say what
> you
> > understand geomancy and numerology to be.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
>
>
> From Dictionary.com
>
Quote:geomancy
>
> noun
> divination by means of signs connected with the
> earth (as points taken at random or the
> arrangement of particles thrown down at random or
> from the configuration of a region and its
> relation to another)
>
>
>
> numerology
>
> noun
> the study of the supposed occult influence of
> numbers on human affairs
>
>
> There is no evidence for either practice in the
> Old Kingdom.

Thank you, Anthony.

I can now state that my hypothesis on how Khufu's pyramid was designed does not involve geomancy or numerology smiling smiley

MJ
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Enjoy the visit, Jon! smiling smiley (n/t)

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