Hermione Wrote:
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> robin cook Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > I am very disappointed that you have chosen to
> > include me with the loonies.
>
> Can I remind all posters that the HoM R&G frown on
> pejorative descriptions of other authors and
> posters.
- I'm sorry that my remarks were deemed as perjorative. I only wanted to lay out the history of Butler's work.
> > The 'Hall of Maat' is supposedly devoted to
> > 'weighing the evidence for alternative
> history'.
> > You decided to set up a separate section called
> '
> > Alternative Geometry and Numerology', but
> > alternative to what? Due to the lack of any
> text
> > from the Old Kingdom which would provide clues
> to
> > the meaning of the Giza group we must turn to
> the
> > pyramids themselves to provide an answer -
> their
> > shapes and dimensions. Petrie was the first
> > 'alternative researcher' if you will. His
> > measurements are accepted by all
> Egyptolologists.
> > Yet strangely he never thought of converting
> his
> > data into cubits. Then 40 years ago Legon made
> the
> > conversion and showed that the Giza group was
> laid
> > out to a plan. Yet few scholars have been
> willing
> > to accept his findings - most seem content to
> > assume that each king designed his own pyramid.
> >
> > Then 20 years ago Butler arrived on the scene.
> He
> > made many mistakes, particularly his 'sea level
> > hypothesis'. I wrote to the late Glen Dash who
> > provided the best modern estimates of pyramid
> base
> > levels which disproved his hypothesis.
> > However one of his findings proved correct -
> that
> > Giza chamber dimensions mimicked inter-pyramid
> > spacings. This I reported on this board but so
> far
> > there has been no reaction.
> >
> > At the same time I showed that the Giza
> pyramids
> > are laid out along a 45 degree axis pointing to
> > Heliopolis. Once again no reaction.
>
> Lehner had earlier mentioned a similar possibility
> (1997: 106).
- Oh I was unaware of this. I do know that he was one of those proposing a rough alignment through the southwest corners of the the three large pyramids. (But wasn't this idea first proposed by Mr Bauval?) This 'alignment' is merely a reflection of the true 45 degree alignment through the centre of Khafre, which you will find on my website (the-horizon-of-khufu.com).
> > I am aware that there are many sites and
> theories
> > floating around on the net, particularly Mr
> > Hancock's 'official' site, and by dumping all
> the
> > nonsense into your 'alternative geometry'
> section
> > you hope to free up your site for more serious
> > discussion.
>
> And, at this point, can I just remind everyone of
> the rule requiring no public discussion of
> moderation policy.
>
> If anyone has a problem with moderation, can they
> kindly contact the moderation team privately.
>
> Yet what is the result? - just
> > waffling away on the usual Egyptological
> subjects
> > (see the 'hoax' thread). Where is the 'weighing
> of
> > alternative history'?
>
> The "Hoax" thread is a continuation of a long
> discussion of an "alternative history" subject
> that has occupied the minds of some for the past
> 40-odd years: namely, the so-called "pyramid
> forgery affair", according to which Colonel Howard
> Vyse forged one of the aper names found in
> Campbell's Chamber: despite not knowing what an
> aper name was, or knowing where it should be
> placed.
>
> In some quarters, it was supposed that the
> publication of
>
this
> book in 2019 would put paid to such a
> proposal for once and for all.
>
> But, much to the astonishment of many, some
> authors, one in particular, persist in arguing -
> in the face of all the evidence - that such a
> forgery did take place.
>
> Hence the protracted nature of the discussion. If
> some don't find the discussion of any interest, I
> can suggest only that they .... refrain from
> reading it.
- yes I did wade through some of it but it was so tedious that I refrained from going any further.
