May 10, 2023 10:55PM
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"arcane texts that deal with the founding of Temples mention 'the shadow' and 'the Stride of Ra', the sun-god, hinting at a method using the sun."
It seemed to me years ago Lehner had put this particular statement in almost as a throw-away thought, I like the idea that the statement may reflect actual text contextually, however its highly probable Lehner presented the idea without truly knowing what it added up to, after all if I remember correctly this is at the end of a chapter or section debating pyramid alignments using stars, so he had to suggestively appease a solar alignment as a possibility for the cardinal accuracy found at Giza. It's also important to remember back then he was still dreaming about the hall of two truths in or under the Sphinx, he was a geologist in the Eighties who got a grant from the Edgar Casey Foundation, thats how he eventually met Hawass.
For the most part his book (The Complete Pyramid) rehashes the same tired old 19th century theories, for me it's more of a coffee table book that compiles the work of others and nothing of his own, the overarching basis focuses around his theory that pyramids were economic engines (and also Cosmic Engines too ;-)), he wasn't a seasoned archaeologist or Egyptologist by trade and publication. He was able to ascend at Giza once AERA was formed for a NOVA special that used (for the first time) cgi computer graphics of the Giza three based in part on the GPMP, the project involved the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago where he met and befriended the community at large. He brought attention, a good guy to have around, and Lehner made good use of it.
regards,
B.A.Hokom
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