Hans Wrote:
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> Strabo circa 64 BC-19 AD
>
> At the distance of 40 stadia from Memphis is a
> brow of a hill, on which are many pyramids, the
> tombs of the kings.64 Three of them are
> considerable. Two of these are reckoned among the
> seven wonders [of the world]. They are a stadium
> in height, and of a quadrangular shape. Their
> height somewhat exceeds the length of each of the
> sides.65 One pyramid is a little larger than the
> other. At a moderate height in one of the sides66
> is a stone, which may be taken out; when that is
> removed, there is an oblique passage [leading] to
> the tomb.
There is a passage in G1 that leads "obliquely" to his tomb. One of the definitions and most common in the days this was translated is "indirect". There are several unmapped and unexplored chambers in G1 and it quite possible that one leads to the Osiris Shaft or similar unknown excavation. I've maintained for years that there is a connection to a parking lot NNW of G1 as well as one to the Sphinx. Why would anyone believe they know the mind of the speaker. We know only the words and the words are from one man that were interpreted and translated by another and then the most likely meaning when it is translated is that there exists an indirect path to the tomb of Khufu in G1. Must I remind you that you believe G1 is the tomb and it doesn't say there is a door in the tomb nor that the king is in the pyramid.
You are seeing what you have chosen to see rather than what exists. You choose not to see these words so you'll call me a "liar" again in the future and I'll again point out you are seeing only what you believe rather than there is an entrance to Khufu's Tomb in the side of G1 according to a single source that has been translated.
> Pliny
>
> We must make some mention, too, however cursorily,
> of the Pyramids of Egypt, so many idle1 and
> frivolous pieces of ostentation of their
> resources, on the part of the monarchs of that
> country. Indeed, it is asserted by most persons,
> that the only motive for constructing them, was
> either a determination not to leave their
> treasures to their successors or to rivals that
> might be plotting to supplant them, or to prevent
> the lower classes from remaining unoccupied. There
> was great vanity displayed by these men in
> constructions of this description, and there are
> still the remains of many of them in an unfinished
> state. There is one to be seen in the Nome of
> Arsinoïtes;2 two in that of Memphites, not far
> from the Labyrinth, of which we shall shortly have
> to speak;3 and two in the place where Lake Mœris4
> was excavated, an immense artificial piece of
> water, cited by the Egyptians among their wondrous
> and memorable works: the summits of the pyramids,
> it is said, are to be seen above the water.
And what part of this do you think says the pyramids were built or used as tombs?
> The other three pyramids, the renown of which has
> filled the whole earth, and which are conspicuous
> from every quarter to persons navigating the
> river, are situate on the African5 side of it,
> upon a rocky sterile elevation. They lie between
> the city of Memphis and what we have mentioned6 as
> the Delta, within four miles of the river, and
> seven miles and a-half from Memphis, near a
> village known as Busiris, the people of which are
> in the habit of ascending them.
And what part of this do you think says the pyramids were built or used as tombs?
> Diodorus Siculus
>
> The smaller bears no inscription but has steps cut
> into one side. And though the two kings built the
> pyramids to serve as their tombs,
in the event
> neither of them was buried in them;
"And though the two kings built the pyramids to serve as their tombs, in the event neither of them was buried in them; 5 for the multitudes, because of the hardships which they had endured in the building of them and the many cruel and violent acts of these kings, were filled with anger against those who had caused their sufferings and openly threatened to tear their bodies asunder and cast them in despite out of the tombs. 6 Consequently each ruler when dying enjoined upon his kinsmen to bury his body secretly in an unmarked place."
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It is merely opinion from many centuries later that these were intended as tombs. The opinion is really a non sequitur since it is obvious that each king consumed about the same amount of resources to build pyramids and that it was increases in efficiency that allowed the structures to get larger. If they were all to be hated for putting the people to such tasks then what is the point of having tombs that tower over their dismembered and desiccated remains spread about the desert? This was quite obviously a pyramid building society and not a a place where kings built pyramids. Rather the pyramids were built for the kings that their names might live forever exactly as they said many times. Pyramids as tombs is a modern superstition caused by interpreting the evidence in terms only of our assumptions. There remains no evidence that any great pyramid was used for a tomb and only the very weakest evidence that any were intended as a tomb. As to "intent" this is best left to the builders themselves and not Diodorus Siculus.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.