I believe the cross bars are the horizon.

The lower stem is Set and the upper circle is Atum/ Osiris. The center hole is Re.

There's actually substantial evidence for this interpretation. It says there were geysers but it appears the pyramid builders said the same thing. The Pyramid Texts is pretty explicit with many things. It says that Osiris was cool effervescent water which stood when he was divine. It says that he stood in the land of rainbows. It says that the djed was his mooring post but the ancients didn't stop there and they actually drew many pictures of Osiris standing in a djed and often with the ankh as the symbol of life.

It describes this over and over in many different ways. The way it's described and the way it's drawn is what really defines their religion and the way they thought. Their Gods were natural phenomena and it was sacriledge to describe or draw them as they actually appeared. So all those landscape scenes that come down to us are wholly misinterpreted as is the entire culture.

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1630d. complete and great, in thy name of "Great black."
1631a. Encircle all things in thine arms, in thy name of "Circle which encircles the nb.wt";
1631b. thou art great, in thy name of "Great circle which sets."
1632a. Horus has brought Set to thee; he has given him to thee; he bends (him) under thee;

Osiris is "the Great Black". Osiris is the Lord of Caverns. His passageway is a cave. These are simple facts as stated by the people who actually built the pyramids. One can analize these utterances until they no longer have any meaning but this is what the builders of the great pyramids said in plain English. The meaning could be metaphoric but there seems no evidence that they were ever even analized literally.

Osiris (cool effervescent water) encircles all things in his arms. This most especially applies to the primeval mound (nb.wt). This primeval mound is often depicted on ankhs as a raised area in the center of the crossbars which represent the horizon. The horizon (high ground at Giza where the horizon is visible) is where Osiris encircles all things in his arms (the circle at the top of the ankh). He especially encircles Re' which why there's sometimes a hole to hold strings which represent rainbows. When Osiris stands on the horizon in the desert the rainbows are very dramatic.

Set is "bent under" Osiris. He is condemned to swim under Osiris forever. He must carry Osiris. This is what the Pyramid Texts actually say. I'm sure these words have no literal meaning to mainstream egyptologists but they had a literal meaning to the authors until someone proves otherwise.

1485a. To say: Greetings to thee, Sycamore, who protects the god, under which the gods of the underworld stand,
1485b. whose tips are seared, whose inside is burned, (whose) suffering is real.
1486a. Assemble those who dwell in Nun; collect those who are among the bows.

The djeds were made of sycamore and are the mooring posts of the Gods. This is where the water flows. This is where life originates; from the primeval mound and into the earth which springs forth in life at the very peak of the growing season. Look at the last line. Allen translates "bows" as "sky arcs". Isn't this "rainbows". Nun is the God of water moving from the south (Nunet is toward the north).

The builders were very consistent and it seems reasonably sure that the circle is Atum/ Osiris standing on the horizon with Set still serving beneath the elder God.

[www.sacred-texts.com]

I must note again that the literal meaning of what the builders actually said is consistent with the physical evidence. It's even consistent with the drawings and record left by the ancients. You can read dozens of books about the meaning of the PT and not even have a basic understanding or you can take them literally and understand them almost immediately. Better yet you can see how the average Egyptian would also have understood them.

Rememember occam's razor; When faced with two competing theories the simpler is probably correct. So is the PT really an incomprehensible book of spells which forms the basis of our understanding of ancient Egypt or is our basic understanding of ancient Egypt wholly and irretrievably in error.

Is the ankh a simple symbol which fits the words of the builders or is it something else? This question I can't answer with any certainty of course but so long as the Egyptians seemed to have believed that cool water was the source of life;

1599b. it is N. who built thee; it is he who settled thee.
1600a. Thou doest for him everything which he says unto thee in every place whither N. goes.
1600b. Thou carriest to him the fowl-bearing waters which are in thee;
1600c. thou carriest to him the fowl-bearing waters which are to be in thee;

1601a. thou carriest to him every tree which is in thee;
1601b. thou carriest to him every tree which is to be in thee;
1601c. thou carriest to him the food which is in thee;
1601d. thou carriest to him all food which is to be in thee;

1602a. thou carriest to N. the gifts which are in thee;
1602b. thou carriest to N. the gifts which are to be in thee;
1602c. thou carriest to him everything which is in thee;

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Here's a very very telling link. Half way through you can see a djed in operation.

The Egyptians were mostly valley dwellers and to see the true horizon had to climb up to Giza. It is here they invented the ankh and it is here that was the gateway to the D[].t for Osiris. There was no "duat" until centuries after the D[].t dried up.

Read the Pyramid Texts and remember they could have meant what they said. Just because everyone interprets the literal meaning out of the words doesn't mean they might not have been meant AS THEY WERE WRITTEN.

[www.sacred-texts.com]

Here's a better shot of the djed in operation;

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Of course the ancients had hundreds of years to perfect this device and determine the best materials to use for it. They knew how to attach it so as not to splinter it and had the throttles at the top as well as the "strings of the sandals of Osiris" with which to orient it in three dimensions using the wAs-sceptor.

It was the observation of this in actual operation which led to the discovery of a corrolary of Newton's third law;

"8) With great capacity it ascends from earth to heaven. Again it descends to earth, and takes back the power of the above and the below."

In other words whatever work is done to lift the water can be captured as it descends. This would have been discovered when someone inadvertantly allowed a wave of the falling water to him. This was Newton's apple hitting him in the head. This was Newton's translation of the same thing or, perhaps, the actual apple that bounced off his head;

8) It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven again it desends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior inferior.

Imagine a wave of this water falling from 85' and hitting you. If you survive it you just might get the idea of using some of that vast energy for a useful purpose.

This is the ankh. This was the source of life in the Egyptian desert and it was the means by which the ka of the king was built that he might live eternally.

[www.the-book-of-thoth.com]








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