Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Thank you Alex for clearing up perceived
> discrepancies between Petrie’s and Dorner’s
> surveys. It's reassuring to know that Petrie’s
> survey is reliable as its consistent with Dorner’s
> modern survey. Petrie has an average 189.459m, and
> Dorner, 189.43m for the length of a side - a me
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Kanga
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> I have looked at my drawing again and observed
> that the inner structure with a side length of 300
> cubits has a base area of 90.000 square cubits.
There is no such inner structure. Waggy has made this clear in his paper. Where there appears to be a disjoint in the N and W passages, the floors of the pa
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Kanga
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GChase Wrote:
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By this diagram, the bend-line is 236 cubits, but the maths doesn't work out. Given the slope of the upper part as 14:15, the bend-line HAS TO BE 235c 5p. Clearly it is not a whole number of cubits.
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Kanga
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Chris Tedder Wrote:
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>
> "upon its pavement surface" clearly states where
> Petrie measured his base side length of 189.459m.
> He then used a cubit of 526.3mm to convert
> 189.459m to 360 cubits, ...
No, he didn't. Petrie measured everything in inches; and he didn't use a cubit of 526.3mm either.
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Kanga
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Another difficulty encountered by "bisector"
> methods is that both elongations of the selected
> star cannot be available for observation at the
> same night (one of the elongations will always
> take place in the daytime), ...
... not always. Around the winter solstice, there will be so
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Kanga
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> When I try to explain to people my hypothesis that
> the pyramids of the 4th dynasty were oriented to
> the pole star of that epoch - Thuban (when it was
> most closer to the Pole), they tell me: "This
> cannot be true, because it’s known that for
> example the Khufu pyramid was laid out at
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Hi Kanga,
>
> QuoteWhy this shift? Because it creates an
> easily distinguishable horizontal line of length
> 200 cubits, drawing attention to the significance
> of horizontal lengths, especially the length of
> the horizontal line at the 154c level, the course
> above it, which is 198 cubi
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Kanga
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> Much of this discussion has focussed on the question of the Khufu shafts and,
> while the targets of the northern shafts remain uncertain, the alignments to Orion
> and Sirius, first noticed by Badawy and Trimble, are extremely difficult to dismiss...
Badawy and Trimble are responsible for the hypothesis that KCS and KCN target Orion's belt and Thuban respectively. It was B
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Kanga
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GChase Wrote:
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> "The final portion of KCN appears to have a
> seked of 11½ palms (31.3°), and points to the
> upper culmination of Thuban in 2552 BCE
>
> I think you can't just pick and choose which part
> of the shaft you like to match your dates.
Why not?
> The overall angle of the shaft had a s
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Kanga
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The elevation of course 103 (top) is 152c 5p. If a new pyramid were built at this height, its dimensions would be: height = 127c 2p; base = 200.02c, virtually 200 cubits. This is the actual level indicated by the KCS shaft exit, but this actual exit is different from Gantenbrink's theorized exit level of 154c. I regard the 154c level as the primary design.
The actual exit is 9 palms belo
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> To summarize the last post:
>
> 1. Gantenbrink's theoretical elevation of KCS
> outlet above the pavement (154c = 80,63m) well
> correspond to average angle of 45° for KCS
> proposed by him.
>
> 2. The difference in the elevation of KCS outlet
> to the surface of the pyramid by Ga
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Kanga
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The recent bushfires in Australia have been apocalyptic.
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GChase Wrote:
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> The northern QC shaft is lined up almost with
> Kocab and the southern QC shaft almost with Sirius.
> But they do match exactly on a certain date 2450
> BC and have the same elevation of 9 on 11.
That may be so, but that date conflicts with the date given by the KC shafts. The final portion of KCN app
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Kanga
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GChase Wrote:
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> The exits of the KC shafts on the slant faces
> split the height and the faces into the ratio 9 to 11.
Only when you consider Gantenbrink's theoretical exit level for both shafts as being 154c above the base.
> Extending downwards the two shafts would intersect
> under the KC (if they did not go hor
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Kanga
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Neither the QCS nor the QCN shaft has a slope of 9:11. The QCS shaft has a consistent slope of 14:17. The QCN shaft, long thought to mirror the QCN shaft, does not even have a single slope. After the horizontal part, its first sloping segment has a slope of around 33°, and the second sloping segment has a slope of around 40°. Then there is a sharp bend to the west. At this point, the QCN shaft ap
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Kanga
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In their article in MDAIK, Gantenbrink and Stadelmann clearly state the seked of the QCS shaft as 8½ palms. If Gantenbrink has the wrong four digits, it is because he has been careless with the maths.
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Kanga
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Gantenbrink's angle for QCS represents a seked of 8½ palms.
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Kanga
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Jim Alison Wrote:
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> ‘The area of one square royal cubit is double
> the area of one square remen. The linear measure
> of one royal cubit is equal to the linear measure
> of the remen times the square root of two.
> Evidence suggests that the remen was the original
> measure, from which the royal cubit was derived
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Jim Alison Wrote:
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> I am pretty sure there is a typo in your earlier
> post about the exit heights of the KC shafts with
> over 100 inch difference where the 2 is supposed
> to be a 1. Petrie's diagram gives the north shaft
> at the bottom of 103 and the south shaft at the
> top of 103, and Petrie gives 25 in
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Kanga
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Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Hi Robin,
>
> Thank you for sharing your excellent diagrams -
> they well illustrate how the shafts seem to tie in
> with the overall design of the pyramid - an
> intriguing aspect of the design.
>
> Apart from these compelling stellar links that
> aligned with the upper and lower
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Kanga
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Kanga Wrote:
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> The emhotep.net article I read containing the data
> on the QCN shaft was originally published at:
>
>
>
> However, according to the Wayback Machine, that
> page (and I presume most of the pages from the
> Project Djedi site) were erased early last year.
The article, by Keith Payne, refer
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Kanga
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The emhotep.net article I read containing the data on the QCN shaft was originally published at:
However, according to the Wayback Machine, that page (and I presume most of the pages from the Project Djedi site) were erased early last year.
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Kanga
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robin cook Wrote:
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> Moving on to the Emhotep site they give 39.6
> degrees for QC south but 36.7 (?) for QC north.
> They state a length of 63.6 m (~ 121 cubits) from
> the start of the shaft (presumably just the
> angled portion) to the blocking stone - this would
> make it probable that the hieratic glyphs read
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robin cook Wrote:
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> I managed to find another image hosting site. Here
> is the plan of the passages -
>
>
>
> In your previous post you stated - " The Project
> Djedi team released the results on their website
> at emhotep dot net back in 2011. They also
> released a paper in a journal whose name
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robin cook Wrote:
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> Hi Kanga
>
> You seem to be sympathetic to the idea that Khufu
> was designed geometrically and that shaft angles
> were adusted to target stars which, at this epoch,
> serendipitiously had altitudes evoking the
> pyramid's geometry - as a way of linking the earth
> to stellar mythol
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Kanga
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The square root sign works just fine at GHMB. Just sayin'.
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robin cook wrote:
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> Yet Legon in his analysis of the
> shafts writes - "The north and south shafts from
> the King's Chamber are now reported by Gantenbrink
> to have both opened in the casing at the height of
> 80.63 ms ± 4 cm above the base. The apertures
> thus coincided with the level of the 105th cou
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Kanga
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I have had difficulty posting my reply to you. There is something in the phorum software that doesn't like certain symbols, such as those for "square root" and "half," so I've had to edit my reply to accommodate the glitch.
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Kanga
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robin cook wrote:
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> In his diagrams Petrie shows the floors of KC
> south shaft intersecting the casing just below the
> top of course 103, and KC north intersecting at
> the top of course 102. In the text he gives the
> height of the exits as 3248.4" and 3119.1" above
> pavement. (somewhere I read that Goy
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Kanga
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Hans Wrote:
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> Kanga Wrote:
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> > Hans Wrote:
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> > > How do shafts that aren't straight 'point to
> > something'?
> >
> > KCN is straight for the final
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