robin cook Wrote:
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> I just wanted to ask if anyone has come across any
> new information regarding the shafts?
> Just to recap, I came across a serious discrepancy
> between Petrie's and Gantenbrink's figures for the
> shaft exits. I raised the question here a year or
> so ago. I wrote to Egyptological authorities and
> also joined the EFF where, with Alex Puchkov, a
> discussion took place on the question. There were
> many assertions, though no-one could direct me to
> any academic write up of Gantenbrink's claimed
> surveys, and the discussion petered out.. Yet the
> Egyptological consensus appears to favour him. If
> Petrie blundered at least amend the history books.
>
> The question is not trivial. Whatever the purpose
> of the shafts, were they laid out to express an
> exclusively geometrical theme (Gantenbrink and
> Legon), or were they directed to mythically
> important stellar targets? If we had the true
> data (and more precise data for the Queen's
> Chamber shafts from the Djedi survey!) we might
> solve these questions.
>
> But even without better shaft data what we have
> corresponds tolerably well to the altitudes within
> a degree or so of Orion's belt, Sirius, and Kochab
> (whose mythological significance remains unknown).
> Gods visible to all in Egypt, whatever their
> qualifications. So I wonder how it can be that
> architects supposedly creating a wholly geometric
> scheme happened to direct the southern shafts at
> altitudes very similar to those of their own
> important gods, isis and orion, without noticing
> the correspondence? Working from home I suppose.
> Anyway it seems a bit premature to focus on
> Alnitak or Alnilam as target of KC south shaft,
> unless one wishes to accept the Orion correlation
> which makes Alnitak the target. Besides we assume
> the belt was the focus of the builder's attentions
> but no references or illustrations of the belt
> have come to light.

3 of the 4 shaft have multiple bends and turns what parameters do you use to determine what it 'points' to?