Pistol Wrote:
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> Understanding how
> they built Khufu's pyramid will not explain why
> they built it.
It's impossible to know this until we know how the pyramid was built.
Think of it this way; we can never know the motivations of each individual but we can determine the means these individuals used to build the pyramid. From this it might well be deducible why they banded together to build it. From this we can begin an outline of what is KNOWN about the culture.
> Exactly my point, when you research the origins of
> pyramids, how they evolved over time and the
> engineering used in each case we can illustrate
> the advances in materials, craftsmanship and
> engineering.
Yes! And this is exactly my point. We can clearly see that they built and then stacked mastabas. Perhaps we shouldn't even refer to "great pyramids" and "tiny little piles of rubble" but rather to "great stacked mastabas" and "pile of rubble once shaped like pyramids". Words can be confusing and the very words used by Egyptology may be tripping us all up.
It is illogical to assume that the same means were used to stack mastabas as to build mastabas.
> I assume your inference is in regard
> to Khufu's pyramid... a pyramid that had the
> benefit from generations of pyramid builders
> dating back to Djoser or perhaps even earlier.
> It's that linear span of time that provided them
> the knowledge and experience to construct Khufu's
> pyramid, but all along the way, from the first
> time, the initial reason of why building a pyramid
> was required to satisfy their needs was arrived at
> long before Khufu's pyramid was built. So in my
> view, the 'why do it' is the progenitor of pyramid
> building not the 'how to do it'.
They wouldn't build them for no reason but this hardly shows modern assumptions are correct. There's ample evidence of earlier structures under G1 yet these aren't investigated either.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
