September 10, 2008 04:19PM
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MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Khazar-khum Wrote: "--it's a TOMB."
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> Clive Wrote: "You must be a newbie...!
> I hope you notice that nobody will come to your
> rescue and support this statement with facts."
>
> At this point MJT, clad in rusty armour and
> struggling to stay astride an aging, clapped-out
> off-white charger squeaks, clatters, and galumphs
> onto the scene...
>
> The pyramids have burial chambers - often complete
> with a sarcophagus.
> Whether they were solely tombs or served a second,
> or more, purpose is not yet clear.
> Whether or not the king in whose name the pyramid
> was built was actually interred in it is
> uncertain.
> Be this as it may, the fact remains that the
> pyramids were predominately (physically and or
> spiritually) tombs for AE kings.
There are no royal mummies from the age of the great pyramids. There's
been no loot found in any of them. Their function as tombs is assumed.
Perhaps it might be said their function as tombs are implied from other
assumptions but it amounts to about the same thing.
The Great Pyramid was named "Khufu's Horizon" in ancient times. Literally
this sounds much less like a tomb than a place. This applies to at least
one of the other great pyramids as well. The other's are indeterminant and
merely imply an association with the king not that the king was ever inside.
These are "instruments to ascend" rather than "instruments to inter".
The great pyramids were mostly built for a single reason; because they could.
Not only were these not primarily tombs but probably none ever contained a
contemporary royal burial.
Later pyramids were tombs.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
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