Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> so..what we have is an entire society
> contributing, both literally and symbolically, to
> the King's ascent.
>
> to my mind...There is only one plausible reason
> for them doing so ..
>
> They believed that THEY were effecting the
> Maintenance of Ma'at
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is
wholly correct (even though every single individual
was probably not on board).
The question here is how and by what means was this
balance achieved. And to exactly what end did it ac-
hieve? Were they merely building a giant heiroglyph
so future people could unravel their intent? Did
they believe the sun couldn't set without two peaks
in the horus land to frame the event? Were they build-
ing a tombstone for a dead God? Perhaps it was more
to caution the people about the power of the living
king/ god. Maybe the answer is in the writing they
left.
This was an "instrument of ascension" and the king
climbed a ladder made by the Gods to get to heaven.
It seems improbable that this is mere coincidence. It
seems a virtual certainty that the pyramid was literal-
ly or metaphorically the means by which he got to heaven.
I tend to think of the pyramid as 6 1/2 million tons of
literal. It is concrete in one of the most real ways
imaginable.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.