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> Ronald Wrote:
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> > Imo, the key to Khufu's view on resurrection
> and
> > the Afterlife are the shafts, which are
> unique.
> > They are not preceeded, nor repeated in any
> other
> > pyramid. Personnally, I don't believe in the
> > shafts being 'launching-tubes' for the
> pharaoh's
> > ka. The soul namely does not require a
> physical
> > exit from a tomb. Imo, the shafts served as
> > symbolic boosters to activate from the
> outside
> > (sunrays) the mummified organs of the
> pharaoh,
> > stored close to the mummified body. With the
> > re-activated organs, and the preserved body,
> the
> > pharaoh was able to live in the Afterlife.
>
>
> Close, very close. There's more to the Egyptian
> cosmography than we understand as modern
> westerners, though.
>
> They were not sun rays being allowed to enter, but
> cosmic water, channeled in from the Abyss, via the
> Great Waterway. Light won't bend around corners
> like the ones in the pyramid shafts, but water
> will flow freely down a tube of any degree of
> straightness. Water is what gave life in Egypt
> and was the source of all rebirth in the
> agricultural nation every year.
>
> You'll find my abstract was lifted from the ARCE
> program and posted here by an attendee:
>
>
>
>
Quote:by Anthony P. Sakovich, Independent
> Scholar, (page 77, Programs & Abstracts, 57th
> ARCE meeting).
>
> "Using multiple surviving texts, Egyptian creation
> myths, temples and structures that both pre- and
> post-date Pharaoh Khufu of the 4th Dynasty, it can
> be shown that the small shafts of Khufu's pyramid
> were not directed at the stars, nor designed as
> mechanical ventilation aids for the builders. the
> physical structure of Khufu's pyramid, including
> the multiple chambers, their component materials,
> and the other sealed shafts from the Queen's
> Chamber are all necessary parts of a coherent,
> carefully planned construction model. All of these
> architectural features, taken as a whole and
> viewed as a practical application and adaptation
> of ancient Egyptian beliefs to the physical world,
> clearly support this conclusion.
>
> If we shift our perspective, we can see that the
> shafts were not designed to direct the pharaoh's
> spirit out of the pyramid. Instead, they were
> engineered to direct the cosmic waters of the
> Abyss, via the Winding Waterway, into the elevated
> burial chamber of the Pharaoh Khufu, as a
> mandatory element of his rebirth into the
> netherworld and his resurrection as Re, the sun
> god."
>
>
> When they raised the chambers above the ground
> (and one should note that Nun, the Abyss, is both
> above and below the ground) they removed the
> chamber from being able to be inundated like all
> the other pyramid burial chambers of the time.
> Only Sneferu's pyramids were close to encountering
> this problem, but in both those cases (Red and
> Bent), there was an entrance to the pyramids that
> was still higher than the burial chamber.
> Apparently the entrance passage could serve as a
> canal as well as the shafts did in Khufu's
> pyramid.
>




> I hope that helps a bit in your studies. Consider
> it a bit of a mile marker, if you like. At least
> you know you're going in the right direction.
>
> Anthony


Thanks for this bright explanation !


Ronald.