Scott Creighton Wrote:
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> how would you know there is no
> underlying design imperative associated with such
> monuments?
How would you know that there
is?
> Hermione: But both random, and non-random,
> sites are capable of generating geometric designs
> ...
>
> SC: As I have said, my human instinct inhibits me
> from accepting that in these ancient monuments
> there is no underlying design imperative whether
> that be creating a concordance with the
> arrangement of a particular star asterism or some
> other association.
Human instinct? You mean intuition? But surely geometric constructions depend ultimately on mathematical logic, not intuition ...
> Hermione: In combination, of course, with evidence
> that the architects and designers were acquainted
> with geometric designs of the nature that you
> propose, and would have incorporated such designs
> in the layouts of structures of this sort.
>
> SC: I have no problem with this.
Excellent!
So where's the evidence, then?
> SC: I present this as evidence to show
> that Giza does
> > indeed have an underlying design imperative
> based
> > on the stars of Orion's Belt.
>
Hermione:
>The stars of Orion's Belt? But these
> celestial objects are randomly located. Three
> random splodges, one of them slightly offset,
> might generate geometric constructions: but this
> can hardly mean that the stars of Orion's Belt
> were put in place as part of a geometric design.
>
> SC: Yes, the pattern of the star asterism is
> itself random but still it can provide the basis
> of the underlying design imperative. The question
> is β could the ancients take what is essentially a
> random pattern and construct their monuments
> around the basic template (the 3 star centres) in
> such a manner as to provide geometric clues to the
> underlying design imperative?
Setting aside the contentious question of trans-generational funerary projects, and the equally contentious question - if the Nile is to represent the Milky Way - of reversed directions, why would the AE engage in such an exercise? In the event that your theory was correct, what benefit would the Pharaoh derive from siting his pyramid in such a way that it (allegedly) formed an image of one of the three Belt stars? Not, anyway, that anyone on the ground would particularly get the point until the third pyramid was in place ... Would the constructors of the first two pyramids have been content to take such a long view?
I say categorically
> βYesβ β this is what they have done. The method I
> present, using the Orion Belt asterism,
> reconstructs the dimensions (length, breadth) of
> the 3 main Giza monuments to a remarkable
> accuracy. Taken in conjunction with the other
> Orion concordances within the Giza layout I say
> that the Orion Belt asterism indeed formed the
> underlying design imperative.
And I continue to say that I don't find the evidence that you present to be at all persuasive.
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