cladking Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Not sure how to break this to you, but some are
> > now, having learnt to their surprise that the
> > Pyramid Texts are the only evidence of Egyptian
> > belief in gods and magic.
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> Yes. The entire culture is interpreted to express
> a belief in magic and the afterlife. Maybe if
> everything we know didn't come out of tombs we'd
> have different beliefs.

You interpret them as tombs? Not everything we know comes out of them.

> > Much as you didn’t understand my simple point on
> > how your theory of pyramid-building fails on
> > approaching the apex.
>
> Using counterweights there is no problem with
> building all the way up. As the landing area gets
> shorter you simply underweight the counterweight
> and make up the difference by hand. So long as
> you have good communication you can use the
> technique right up to the ben ben stone.

By hand? So there are hauliers, yes? What do they stand on? A platform in the sky?

Could we see a picture?

M.