Jammer Wrote:
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> Cladking, my question remains; IF the AE had felt
> the shadow alignment was important why wasn't
> Menkare's built tall enough to reach? They
> controlled all aspects, including size.

At sunset the shadow of menkaure would reach the other pyramids.

> The summer and winter solstice are critically
> important to temperate climate societies, where
> winter is the sun's death and summer brings life
> and renewal and the solistace is the swing days.
> That's why solstice is so important to Stonehenge,
> Newgate, etc.
>
> The AE had year round crop rotations, with the
> flooding of the Nile being the apparently critical
> cyclic. Is there evidence I have missed where the
> AE felt the solstice was critical also?
> I KNOW they were aware of it, but are we mixing
> societal beliefs from two different societies?
>
> Jammer

I don't know. Most cultures have celebrations around the winter solstice but my knowledge here is very limited. There should have been no compelling need for them to know this with their economy or technology but there might have been a cultural need.

It seems highly improbable that the primary point of Giza is as a calender. I doubt that this is secondary or even tertiary either. My guess is that they had at least some notion of how they wanted this laid out which depended on things like possible sites, and saw the opportunity to also incorporate a calender into it.



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