PART 8 : Summary and Conclusions

Summary

The seven Parts of this article looked at the pyramids through a different lens, and many things that were previously mysteries became clearer. The main new concepts applied were :

First, the afterlife Heb Sed was developed; a new concept distinct from the lifetime Sed Festival. It maintains that the actions took place in the sky. This enabled a series of new explanations such as the purpose of the shafts in the Great Pyramid.

Second, the identification of counterparts in the sky have been presented for all pyramids. This was a necessary Heb Sed requirement. Because - to make any action happen in the sky, the action must be done in the pyramid also. An example would be the King’s run around the enclosure resulting in the king’s circumnavigation of the whole cosmos.

The counterpart area in the sky was the same for every pyramid. It was the square between the star Mizar of the Ursa Major and the star Kocab of Ursa Minor. We are sure of this initially from the shape of Khasekhemwe’s tomb which was arranged like the four stars around the celestial pole. Then the location was confirmed on the ceilings of the VOK tombs of Seti l and Ramses centuries later.

Within this counterpart of the pyramid, the burial chambers was located either at the star Thuban, or the star 10 Draconis, or at the pole itself.

By looking at the requirements of the afterlife Heb Sed and the counterparts of the pyramids in the northern sky a number of new explanations were achieved over the seven Parts.

For each pyramid, what I consider to be the main ‘firsts’ are listed. The most important ones are in bold.

Khasekhemwy
• The meaning of the tomb’s shape,
• The 11+ 9 divisions of the Mizar-Kocab line.
• The purpose of the Enclosure
• A dating of the tomb

Step Pyramid
• The symbolism of the steps of the pyramid
• The purpose of the northern dais
• The two skies identified at Saqqara
• The ‘underground’ run
• The separation of lifetime and afterlife King’s runs
• Stars as Run markers in the sky
• Explanation of the colonnaded entrance hall

Bent Pyramid
• The reason for the two slopes
• The purpose of a satellite pyramid
• The meaning of the stelae
• The purpose of the eastern offering temple
• The purpose of the second chamber

Red Pyramid
• An explanation of the internal changes in the Bent Pyramid
• A reason for a slope the same as the upper slope of the Bent Pyramid

The Great Pyramid
• The purpose of the KC shafts
• The explanation of the 11 to 9 theme
• The king’s Run inside the burial chamber
• The second purpose of the Grand Gallery and Great Step
• A dating for the Pyramid from the exact 11 to 9 split
• The location of the two Enneads in the sky
• The role of the queen’s chamber and shafts

Djedefre's Angles
• Proof that the Giza plan was known
• How the base size of G3 was derived
• A matching with Menkaure’s Pyramid

Khafre’s Pyramid
• The dual correlation, north and south
• The base angles of the Giza pyramids
• Area C was a 4 year calendar
• Why the base orientation was reversed
• The purpose of the ‘mortuary‘ temple
• The purpose of the second chamber
• How the short star shafts worked
• A revised OCT
• The reason for the number of pyramids at Giza
• Proof of another northern correlation (Amenemhet lll)

5th and 6th Dynasty pyramids
• The purpose of the sun temples
• The dual counterparts to include the sun and Osiris
• The PT’s were the recitations and responses of the Heb Sed


Conclusions

By looking at all the pyramids rather than one only, the sequence of changes and the reasons for these changes could be identified. The overwhelming thread that ran through all of them was the Heb Sed requirements for the Kings afterlife.

This dictated most of the changes, the architecture, and the function of each component.

The necropolis at Giza was as much a Heb Sed creation as the complex of Djoser at Saqqara !