robin cook Wrote:
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> Just explain this -
>
> > "We took the SPO Glyph -see below- tracing
> and
> > rotated it along its NS axis to obtain a
> mirror
> > image, followed by a rotation of about 75
> degrees
> > clockwise about its center".


Ok. I'll give it a try. For it to be more clear I will have to summarize the key points from chapter 10 of the book.
I am going to refer to the graphics shown here: [www.earthsunexposure.com].
The argument starts with the Pacific Ocean Ridge which looks like it is shown -in black- over the pyramids. The ridge with this peculiar shape is found at the location shown on the earth's map below- in yellow- in the same page. The author calls these 'glyphs' because of their unusual layout. I just finished tracing it myself to confirm its existence. It took some time but it is easy to do following the given instructions. The glyph is located at 30⁰S 150⁰W, the glyph's main straight line follows the 150⁰W meridian for 6k km. NS. Giza's antipode point is at about 30⁰S 149⁰W, rounding to whole degrees. The author provides a dimensional analysis of the glyph; all the glyph's sizes are given including the ratios of the distances between peaks and their heights. With that information the pyramids were measured or obtained the measurements from the literature for the pyramid's layout. Their heights and distances from cusp to cusp are compared with the glyphs' counterparts. It was discovered that the ratios between the two layouts are quite close; peak to peak and height to height. That, is claimed not to be a coincidence, particularly taking into consideration the location and the azimuth of the main line forming the glyph. In my opinion this alone is quite disruptive to the conventional pyramid analysis. The author claims, paraphrasing; the pyramids were aligned to this NS unique ridge line; not to Polaris as is commonly believed. At the bottom of the caption for the globe map showing the glyph it says: "We believe this line, which runs north all the way from Antartica for 6,000km, is the Ancient's original geo-centric based source for the "North" concept."
Mantaining the glyph's geometry it is 'moved' up along the 150⁰W meridian, over the N Pole to its antipode point; now facing down and one degree west of Giza. On the Giza graphic the location of the Antipode point with respect to the glyph is marked with a star between the two large peaks. The antipode point as measured is the southeast corner of Chephren. In the book it is shown how the glyph is moved about. The glyph's N is now S. Then it is proportionally shrunk -a thousand times- to match the size of the pyramids' layout, then it is moved one degree east. Inmediately one can see that the three main peaks on the glyph 'match' the pyramids' peaks, one for one, thus corrobotating the calculated ratios. The angle of the line connecting the peaks is close to the angle of the line connecting the pyramids' peaks ~39⁰. I observe, this angle is fixed between the NS glyph line and its peaks. Likely not a coincidence that it matches the giza layout. In the book it is pointed out that the side of the square portion of the glyph is proportional to the side of Cheops. I quote from the book. " After reducing the SPO glyph's size a thousand times, curiously, the difference in areas of the squares divided by a thousand and then the cube root taken the result is equal to the number of pyramids: (2832 - 2302)/1,000 = 33 "
Now the specific point of your question: A second transformation flips the image along the NS axis maintaining the middle peak on the cusp of Chephren, thus creating a mirror image. Using the cusp as the geometric center, the glyph is rotated CW until the NS line is at about 75⁰ (I measured 75.02⁰, North=0&#8304. Via these geometric transformations extraordinary things happen, which you can read in the web page. In the book, another thing more significant, in my opinion, is discussed: "The 'north' line of the glyph was rotated 75⁰ about its middle peak which caused one of the glyph's lines, which form the Cheops peak, to coincide with the pyramid's diagonal at 45⁰. Therefore, this diagonal line forms a 60⁰ angle with the glyph's north line (now horizontal; this results in a 75⁰, 60⁰, 45⁰ triangle). The 60⁰ angle is equal to the average pitch of the Cheops pyramid's side"
After this follows my previous communication, which now should make more sense because it is part of the same argument( there I misspoke 1,400 miles ~2200km). I should mention there is a lot more to the argument; a whole chapter. In fact the whole book centers about this kind of detailed geometric analysis. Another section shows how the Akapana pyramid in Tihuanaco is geometrically related to Giza. The green line shown on the graphic in the web page has virtually the same geometry as the glyph and the Giza layout, it is the outline of the base of the Akapana pyramid.