Sah_4: "I just solved Giza for real. The pyramids depict three stars along the bottom of the constellation Leo."


The faint stars you selected do not form a distinctive star pattern in the sky and two of them are not from any of the 6 or so bright stars that actually form the distinctive star pattern of a recumbent lion. The stars lie on or around the ecliptic, but why leave out for example Regulus, the brightest star in Leo, which was more or less on the ecliptic?



Sah_4: "Hydra was actually called "The Nile" by the Egyptians because it resembles the river."

Can you give citations for this - any evidence from the Old Kingdom the ancient Egyptians recognized Hydra?


Sah_4: "I now have the most perfect Giza stellar theory ever, in my opinion. I'm now abandoning all Orion based theories."



At least the core idea of the OCT still has a few things going for it:


1. the 3-star asterism in the centre of Orion was one of the most distinctive, easily recognizable star patterns crossing the ancient Egyptian southern sky.

If an overall site plan for the three royal pyramids at Giza was based on a symbolic representation of this distinctive 3-star asterism, then all that was required was for the architect to look at the asterism and draw three stars - 2 stars in line with the third slightly offset, the two outer stars more or less equidistant from the centre star - 'what you see is what you get idea' - this 'site plan' would then provide a guide for the planners of each funerary complex.


2. In the earliest Pyramid Texts, at least two distinctive star patterns and a bright star that can with reasonable certainty be identified, are mentioned: Orion (sAH), Sirius (spdt) and the Big Dipper / Plough (msxtjw). Other stars / star patterns are mentioned, but identifying them with reasonable certainty is problematic.

In the context of the king's afterlife beliefs, Sah was an important deity in the PTs - the 'Father of the Gods' and the one who had the authority to give the king the title 'Greatest Controlling Power'. The king was to touch the sky like Sah and travel with Sah, rising in the east and going down in the west.


3. A link between Orion (sAH), and a small enigmatic feature in Khufu's pyramid, was proposed in 1954 by Egyptologist Alexander Badawy, and was endorsed / supported by other experienced Egyptologists. Badaway's proposal does not prove there was a link with Orion, but if experienced Egyptologists had reason to think may have been, it can be taken seriously.

The top end of the upper southern shaft that is connected with the all important sarcophagus chamber, was facing an area of the sky where the 3-star asterism in the centre of Orion crossed when it reached its highest point in the sky due south during the era when Khufu's pyramid was built - c.2570 BC. The top end of the upper northern shaft was facing an area of the sky where the then Pole or North Star, Thuban, appeared when it reached its highest point in the sky due north - again c.2570 BC.

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