Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> If what you suggest is true, then why build
> pyramids with internal chambers? If it's a
> cenotaph & not a tomb, wouldn't it be easier
> for it to be a solid mass?

Hello Khazar-khum,

I suspect that the answer to your question lies within 4th-5th Dyn. Egyptian mythology, cosmology, and religion, and as Winnie the Pooh probably knows more about these subjects than I do, I'm rather stuck...

One thing I can call on is Sneferu having at least two pyramids (the Bent and the Red) - both with passages and chambers.
I think it was Anthony who recently pointed out to me that one of these two pyramids was (probably?) a cenotaph.
Both the Bent and the Red could be described as a solid mass, as indeed could 23 other OK pyramids; only Khufu's pyramid has (as far as is known*) passages and chambers high up in its superstructure (see Lehner's The Complete Pyramids).
Why Khufu wanted this singular (?) arrangement is something of a mystery - and not just to me...

Sorry my answer is a touch vague but it's the best I can come up with at the moment.

Regards,

MJ

*Lepre suggests that there may be an arrangement of passages and chambers high up in the Red pyramid - waiting to be discovered.