The greatest cities of ancient Hellas were founded mainly in the Sterea Ellada and Peloponnese regions as also on the island of Crete - Minoan period. This defines the ancient Central or South-Central up to Southern part of Greece. Cities or sacred sites like Delphi, Thebes, Orchomenus, Athens, Corinth, Argos, Sparta, Pylos, Mycenae, Tyrins, Olympia, Phaistos, Knossos etc were in this region. The area called Sterea Ellada means "Solid Greece". This is because it is part of mainland Greece, in contrast to the Peloponnese the name of which means the island of Pelops. This is not exactly an island since it unites with mainland Greece with the Corinth canal.

Therefore my theory is that the Giza pyramids were designed based on placement of tall mountains of the Sterea Ellada region. Sterea Ellada encompassed regions like Acarnania, Aetolia, Eurytania, Locrida, Phocida, Phthiotida, Beoetia, Attica, and the island of Euvoia. Major cities or saced sites were Thebes(Thiva or Thebe, or Kadmeia, or Ogygia), Delphi, Trophonian Oracle(Midea or Livadea), Orchomenus, Athens, Eleusis, Eretria, etc.

According to my mapping, the tallest mountains of Central and Southern Greece, mount Giona(tallest peak pyramida"pyramid" at 8235 feet) centered at the apex of Kafre's pyramid and the Vardousian mountains(tallest peak Korax"Raven" at 8186 feet) centered near and inside the perimeter of Kafre's mapped base relate to the central Giza pyramid. These two pyramids are nr 5 and nr 7 altitude wise nation wide.

An interesting aspect is the relation of Khufu pyramid's apex to the tallest peak of the sacred to Apollo mountain Parnassus. The tallest peak is Liakoura at 8061 feet altitude.

According to Hellenic mythology mount Parnassus is named after the hero Parnassus, who had built a city on the mountain that was destroyed by the Deucalion flood. The city inhabitants following howling wolves were led higher on the mountain to escape the flood, where they founded a new city that they named Lycoreia, that meant "wolf howls". This name is used to this day slightly altered in the name Liakoura which is the folk name for the mountain as a whole as also for it's tallest peak.

Mapping thus the apex of Kafre's and Khufu's pyramids on to these two peaks Pyramida and Liakoura, we notice that the sacred Corycian Cave falls right on the edge of Khufu's base(perimeter).

[en.wikipedia.org]

Strabo, in his Geography, writes:
The whole of Parnassos [Mountain in Phokis] is esteemed as sacred [to Apollon], since it has caves and other places that are held in honor and deemed holy. Of these the best known and most beautiful is Korykion, a cave of the Nymphai bearing the same name as that in Kilikia [in Asia Minor]. (9.3.1)

The position of Delphi now falls on a small mastaba south of Khufu's pyramid near it's North - South axis.

The Giza - Giona blueprint is completed with the Menkaure pyramid apex representing position wise the tallest peak of mount Kokkinias at 6010 feet. Giona and Parnassus are in the modern Greek nome of Phokida while mount Kokkinia is in Aetoloacarnania(the Aetolia part).


But this as any other similar theory that wants to really explain the Giza pyramid planning needs to explain the size - base or height of the pyramids. Stellar theories like Bauval's , apart from being inaccurate distance and angle wise cannot explain this aspect. The size - radius of stars like Mintaka and Alnitak simply are not proportional to the height or base length of the relative pyramid. The brightness notion is also a problematic one since pyramids are made of matter not light.

So how does my theory score in this aspect? Let's see.

Let's compute the height ratio of Khufu's pyramid by Kafre's pyramid. For Kafre I use Edwards value:

(G1 height)/(G2 height) = (146.71 m)/(143.56 m) = 1.0219

So let's now look at the inverted altitude values of mount Giona(the tallest) divided by that of Parnassos. I use wikipedia data:

(Giona alt.)/(Parnassos alt) = (2510 m)/(2457 m) = 1.0216

We have a perfect match. The only thing is that the Khufu pyramid height was planned so as to encode the altitude of the central mountain the one having the largest altitude and the one with the pyramid shaped peak.

So what about the Menkaure - Kokkinias relation?

Based on the altitude difference between the central mountain Giona and mount Kokkinia, we can determine based on the height of Kafre's pyramid, what the height of Menkaure's pyramid should be planned at. The math is simple(wiki data for Kokkinias):

theoretic Menkaure pyramid height = (kafre pyr. height)x (Kokkinias altitude)/(Giona altitude) = (143.56 m) x (1832 m)/(2510 m) = 104.78 meters

So based on this notion the height of Menkaure's pyramid should have been planned with a height of 104.78 meters. But if this option was chosen the side of its base would have been somewhere near 169 meters. This would make this pyramid too large and too massive in regards to the mass and area covered by mount Kokkinias. The solution was to chose a base with these dimensions and not the height. This seems to be the case since according to Lehner the base of Menkaure's pyramid is rectangular at 102.2 m by 104.6 m. The base according to Petrie is 105.5 meters. Either way we are in the ballpark, so it's size seems to have been planned according to this notion.

I will complete this analysis pointing out that mount Kokkinias derives it name from the Greek word kokkino meaning "red". But the lower external courses of Menkaure's pyramid is made of red granite.




Edited 10 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2014 07:33AM by Spiros.