Pistol Wrote:
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> Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> > In this thread we are considering Khufu's
> > sarcophagus which was placed in Khufu's
> pyramid,
> > once known as Khufu's Horizon, but now
> referred to
> > as the Great Pyramid.
>
> Other than circumstantial there is no direct
> evidence defining the sarcophagus belonging to
> Khufu, moreover the preponderance of evidence
> (100%) reveals all royals, there family members
> and officials were buried below ground level...
> the PT's are explicit to this fact.
>
> > The Great Pyramid was the largest of the
> three
> > pyramids of Giza, but not the big one in the
> > middle which was Khafre's pyramid. The Great
> > Pyramid is closest to the edge of the
> escarpment,
> > and couldn't have been built any closer to
> 30
> > degrees north of the equator. The angle of
> the
> > equinox sun is 30 degrees from the vertical
> at
> > mid-day and the pole of the night sky is 30
> > degrees above the horizon.
>
> Are you saying the altitude of the sun, on both
> equinox's at mid-day is 60 degrees above the
> southern horizon? When the sun reaches 60 degrees
> alt on the equinox of 2600BC (assuming the
> builders were busy calculating your theory) the
> sun is roughly 130 degrees from north at 12:30pm,
> add an hour to get to 180 azimuth (due south) and
> the sun is well above 70 degrees in the sky. So, I
> guess you should re-calculate. I use Starry-Night
> Pro software. I didn't check the pole of the night
> sky because they are credited with using
> circumpolar stars.
>
> > A modern geographical perspective should not
> be
> > imposed on the design as if the architect saw
> the
> > earth as a globe, but the observed angles may
> have
> > been regarded as 1/12 of the circumference of
> a
> > circle, hence Khufu's Horizon has solar and
> > stellar aspects.
>
> In my view, a preposterous suggestion. 1) the
> ancient sunrise occurs between the solstices;
> summer @ azimuth 63.4 degrees and winter @ azimuth
> 121.7 along the eastern HORIZON 2) never does the
> sun on any axis remain in view for 360 degrees in
> Egypt, so to say 1/12 of a circumference of a
> circle may have been used to arrive at the
> conjunction stellar and solar sightings is to
> ignore the obvious.
>
> > The circumpolar stars were the most
> important
> > stars according to Dr I.E.S. Edwards, the
> foremost
> > authority on the pyramids of Egypt in latter
> half
> > of the twentieth century, with several
> editions of
> > his book on the pyramids having been
> published
> > across six decades, so there was plenty of
> time
> > for others to challenge his ideas.
>
> For sure I.E.S. Edwards made some notable
> contributions as a scholar and as Keeper of the
> British Museums Egyptian collection, he never did
> any field study and he mostly published other
> peoples works to hypothesize on their validity, I
> would classify him as an editor who made the
> pyramids more accessible to the public at large
> with his 1946 publication, but he was not the
> foremost authority on Egyptian pyramids in the
> first half of 20th century (Petrie died in 1942).
>
> The only use or collusion of quadrant and circular
> (elliptical) equations that I'm aware of in modern
> times was presented by Andrew Wiles, who used them
> to solve Fermats last theorm...
>
>
>
> Injecting these concepts into the design of a
> sarcophagus is a creative and probably fun
> activity, but in my opinion beyond that it's an
> absolute folly to believe the AE were so
> mathematically inclined to follow your
> hypothesis... which has no valid or constructive
> solution anywhere in sight.

Well that about covers it.
>
> Regards,
>
> B.A.Hokom
>