The Sackler Library were helpful in the first few months of my research in 2003, and I viewed the plans of Maragioglio and Rinaldi in the library prior to acquiring copies elsewhere. I offered to send a copy of my monograph to Dr Jaromir Malek.
(Dr Malek was keeper of the archive of the Griffiths Institute in 2006, and my monograph still appears in the official list of publications received so I
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Mark Heaton
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I think any orientation to the stars is symbolic.
Bauval's was based on a approx. 10,000 BCE alignment.
Warwick
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Warwick L Nixon
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Warwick,
Thanks are due to Pistol for taking my side, but I think I lost the argument with the post about snakes, and now you have me barking up the wrong shaft.
Pistol's post reminded me of a comment on page 168 of Pyramid Beyond Imagination.
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To make matters worse, the waters of argument became muddied when a notional supporter of Piazzi Smyth's called Robert Menzies
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Perhaps not everybody is aware that the disagreements evident on the pages of this forum, such as Cooper versus Cook, mirror a particular episode with regard to the dimensions of G1.
The Royal Engineers had surveyed the corner sockets of the Great Pyramid as a mean of 9,130 inches, which General Sir Henry James interpreted as 500 cubits of just over 18 inches having aborted an alternative theo
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
TTBOMK there is no proper spatial analysis of the north end wall of the Grand Gallery anywhere apart from in my monograph on the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid published in 2006.
Diagram on page 88
In summary the vertical height corresponds to 468 1/4 digits (16.72 cubits) which is very close to the square root of the number of cubits in the design height of the pyramid on conversion of
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Harry Rogers Wrote:
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> I have not come across anything to suggest that it
> was not built during the reign of Djedjefre. Since
> Djedjefre's reign began after the completion of
> the Khufu structure in 2541 BC and ended before
> the preplanned outset of construction on the
> Khafre in 2529 BC, this would likely p
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Hans
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Byrd Wrote:
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> The problem with this is that there is no
> indication of a festival or event to celebrate the
> coming or the departure of the birds (ala
> "Swallows come back to Capistrano." We do have
> evidence of celebrations of other things and we
> know that the helical rising of Sirius was said to
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M. Williams
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Ancient Egypt
Byrd Wrote:
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> The problem with this is that there is no
> indication of a festival or event to celebrate the
> coming or the departure of the birds (ala
> "Swallows come back to Capistrano." We do have
> evidence of celebrations of other things and we
> know that the helical rising of Sirius was said to
&
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Warwick L Nixon
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Ancient Egypt
The problem with this is that there is no indication of a festival or event to celebrate the coming or the departure of the birds (ala "Swallows come back to Capistrano." We do have evidence of celebrations of other things and we know that the helical rising of Sirius was said to mark the beginning of the flood season.
So you'd think that if ibises were involved there would be
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
A simple example is whether or not the length of the roof at 89 royal cubits and 3 digits was intended to represent the hypotenuse of a key virtual triangle.
If it was important then we should expect to find a design structure.
It should be noted that Petrie measured the length of the Great Step as 61.32 inches (83.3 digits), which one might think was intended to be 3 royal cubits (84 digit
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Hello Mark,
Looking into Greek isopsephia I note that the word Hyksos written in the Ionic alphabet - with no H and with an Omega adds up to 1460. On the other hand Apollyon (also written with an omega) adds up to 1461.
wiki:
QuoteThe Hebrew term Abaddon and its Greek equivalent Apollyon appears in the Bible as both a place of destruction and as the name of an angel.
APOLLYON = 10+80+70
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Spiros
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Hi Tim,
My monograph on the Grand Gallery was sub-titled 'squaring the circle of Sirius'.
After publication, I decided to calculate the level where the perimeter of the rising pyramid is 1,460 royal cubits, assuming a base side-length of 440 royal cubits and an intended height of 280 royal cubits. The length of the side of the pyramid is 365 royal cubits at this level. We can calc
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
If you see someone barking up the wrong tree, and decide to spend time on the matter, then don't be surprised if others have not read all your posts. I admit that is so in my case.
The Spiros theory is contrary to what I would have expected, not worth spending my time on to disprove, but I have kept an open mind, and am grateful for your labours.
Meanwhile I have been researching in a
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
First of all apologies to not responding to your question. I had thought that it was a 'tongue in cheek' question and that you knew the answer.
As far as I know Spiros proposed the solstice theory, not Petrie. That's why I gave him credit for it.
I pointed out that there is a most precise geometric relationship between the arc of the circle from G1 to G3, and the diameter of
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
This is another piece of the jigsaw which does not fit perfectly with other pieces that have been found, so we may expect to find more pieces.
I referred to page 12 of 'The Pyramids of Egypt' by I.E.S. Edwards earlier in this thread:
'The impression made on the modern mind is that of a people searching in the dark for a key to truth and, having found not one but many keys res
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> See last sentence on page 12 of The Pyramids of
> Egypt, 1993, by I.E.S. Edwards.
>
> Mark
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>
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> Edited 2 times. Last edit at 06/08/16 04:40AM by
> Mark Heaton.
My take on the OCT after time has gone by.
The GP does include the Sun, Orion, and Sirius in the orientation o
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Warwick L Nixon
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Spiros
Thanks for your comments.
The circle in the ground plan of G1 (with a diameter of 90 digits) is drawn on page 142 of my 2006 monograph of the Grand Gallery, so I only had to remember that I had found this circle many years ago.
I first came on to this forum, some years ago, to debate the design of Sneferu's Bent Pyramid, having put my theory on a website. I was sure that t
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Yes. It was merely the preamble to the main point. I had wondered why you had picked on a point that was not crucial to my thesis. Thanks for your contribution as it did make me think about other structures.
Blackpool Tower is close to the height of the Great Pyramid. This is not a folly in that its purpose was to attract tourists, and it has a viewing platform near the top. It has served its
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
This is a terrible utterance to do because it is very highly atypical and because it will sound absurd to modern ears. But on the plus side it is one of the easier "interpretations" to support.
I'd rather do another but I fear it would be considered off topic.
​ALLEN TRANSLATION
Pull back, Baboon’s penis! Open, on the blast of heat where the gods scoop water.
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cladking
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Hi Chris,
I have off and on continued looking into your question about how and why Morrow interprets Utt. 311 as involving Orion. In a response to Byrd on this thread I offered some further thoughts on the subject, which i will include again here (with an inadvertent error corrected)
> As to the passage cited by Chris, Morrow states
> that in many situations the disc glyph (N 5)
&g
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L Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
I am now nearly finished with my first reading of this book, and although the author has taken quite an unorthodox approach I must say that wherever I probe I am rewarded by much that is of interest, some of which even containing insights of breakthrough quality. But let me get to your comments:
Byrd Wrote:
> Having read it and other quotes, I find it a less
> than reliable translati
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L Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Chris Tedder Wrote:
> Do you know why she has Orion rather than the Sun?
On pages 28-29 she writes:
The penis of the great soul
Opens the doors to the sky
The doors seal again
The gate to the path over the fire
Beneath the holy ones as they grow dark
As the falcon flies, as the falcon flies,
May Unis rise into this fore
Beneath the holy ones as they grow dark
They make a path
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L Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Lee,
Thanks for bringing our attention to 'The Dawning Moon of the Mind'
Although I’ve only read some extracts from her work, it seems she has some thought provoking ideas:
“Taurus, Orion, and Sirius rising in the light of dawn, the moon becoming full, are among the most beautiful sights on earth today, as they were five thousand years ago. This first wall presents them as t
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Chris Tedder
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Ancient Egypt
On page 3 they overlay the Orion belt stars over the pyramids but do not choose to assign one specific apex to one star position. Actually they were supposed to assign two stars over two apex's and then study the third pyramids position. But if they did that we would notice a large divergence. Sloppy work.
They go on to say that the architects, who were supposed to be primitive star gaze
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Spiros
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Ancient Egypt
It is the angle that is encoded, not pi. There is a difference.
My monograph on the Grand Gallery is sub-titled 'squaring the circle of Sirius'.
Mark
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Where else do we find a cubit as low as 20.58
> inches in the fourth dynasty or later?
Why exclude the third dynasty ?
Sakkara is 20. 51 +or – 0.02 .
It’s actually , and for the fifth or sixth time , 20.58 +or – 0.02 .Also found in the ante chamber in the Great pyramid .
Look at the values of the
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Geotio
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Ancient Egypt
Where else do we find a cubit as low as 20.58 inches in the fourth dynasty or later?
But even such a short length is still not short enough to get your 420 royal cubits.
And don't forget your 420 royal cubits doesn't mean anything. Its not unlikely that any very long length can be rounded to the nearest 5 royal cubits!
I first found a connection to the mid-point of the east s
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
For Petrie on the Bent Pyramid (the large pyramid base) and the Satellite Pyramid (the small pyramid base), see page 32, A Season in Egypt
'Only the first two are really accurate data, and they give a mean of 20.68 plus or minus 0.03' inches':
Large Pyramid Base 360 cubits of 20.72 (inches)
Small Pyramid Base 100 cubits of 20.646 (inches)
I have taken Petrie's cubit
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
> I supposed that the 25,920 palms represented
> 25,920 years.
With no justification whatsoever .
> It turns out that the mid point of the east side
> of the Red Pyramid was 1,460 palms from the south
> east corner of the Red Pyramid and 1,460 palms
> from the north east corner of the Red Pyramid, as
> if the mid-point of the east side repre
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Geotio
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Ancient Egypt
I have pointed out that the distance between the middle of the north side of the Bent Pyramid and the middle of the east side of the Red Pyramid is very close indeed to 25,920 palms, and that this dimension is latent in the design of the Red Pyramid.
I supposed that the 25,920 palms represented 25,920 years.
It turns out that the mid point of the east side of the Red Pyramid was 1,460 palms
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Mark Heaton
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Ancient Egypt