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Audrey Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
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> > In case anyone was wondering the pyramids each
> > point "up". They point up because they were the
> > instruments of ascension that turned the king from
> > a flesh and blood man (No, not a god) into a star
> > that was used to remember him forever; an
> > imperishable star.
>
> Ok, I'll say it. The only way a pyramid can
> point is up.
>
> So you're saying the pyramids had a symbolic
> purpose, turning the king into a star? Or did the
> AE believe this was a physical reality? If they
> thought it physically possible, I'd have to say
> the builders, who had the science, must have tried
> real hard to convince the king it wasn't possible.
> After building pyramids over 400' high requiring
> all manner of measurement, surely they had a
> strong sense of distance.
>
> Do you suppose every time a king died, they looked
> for a new star in the sky? Since they wouldn't see
> a new one, do you think they ever began to doubt
> this belief? Surely someone would have asked -
> hey, where is the king in the sky now? This is
> when I would have said - ya know, those priests
> are idiots. There's never a new star in the sky.
>
> And if this were the only reason for the pyramids,
> they could have built them 1/10th the size. Why
> such an overkill? Symbols don't need to be
> gigantic, why wouldn't a 40' symbol suffice? And
> I'm wondering how they would have justified
> jettisoning a soul up an incline. They knew enough
> science to build the pyramids, surely they knew
> nothing goes uphill without a force behind it. Or
> would their science have failed them at this
> point?
One way to reconcile the apparent contradiction is to separately identify, 1) the engineering culture that actually built those things, perhaps in an earlier time, perhaps for an entirely different, non-funerary purpose, from 2) the Dynastic culture, with its funerary belief system that provided the contextual backdrop for interpreting those monuments which may already have been ancient in Dynastic times.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 23-Feb-17 04:42 by Origyptian.
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> cladking Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > In case anyone was wondering the pyramids each
> > point "up". They point up because they were the
> > instruments of ascension that turned the king from
> > a flesh and blood man (No, not a god) into a star
> > that was used to remember him forever; an
> > imperishable star.
>
> Ok, I'll say it. The only way a pyramid can
> point is up.
>
> So you're saying the pyramids had a symbolic
> purpose, turning the king into a star? Or did the
> AE believe this was a physical reality? If they
> thought it physically possible, I'd have to say
> the builders, who had the science, must have tried
> real hard to convince the king it wasn't possible.
> After building pyramids over 400' high requiring
> all manner of measurement, surely they had a
> strong sense of distance.
>
> Do you suppose every time a king died, they looked
> for a new star in the sky? Since they wouldn't see
> a new one, do you think they ever began to doubt
> this belief? Surely someone would have asked -
> hey, where is the king in the sky now? This is
> when I would have said - ya know, those priests
> are idiots. There's never a new star in the sky.
>
> And if this were the only reason for the pyramids,
> they could have built them 1/10th the size. Why
> such an overkill? Symbols don't need to be
> gigantic, why wouldn't a 40' symbol suffice? And
> I'm wondering how they would have justified
> jettisoning a soul up an incline. They knew enough
> science to build the pyramids, surely they knew
> nothing goes uphill without a force behind it. Or
> would their science have failed them at this
> point?
One way to reconcile the apparent contradiction is to separately identify, 1) the engineering culture that actually built those things, perhaps in an earlier time, perhaps for an entirely different, non-funerary purpose, from 2) the Dynastic culture, with its funerary belief system that provided the contextual backdrop for interpreting those monuments which may already have been ancient in Dynastic times.
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How can any of us ever know, when all we can do is think?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 23-Feb-17 04:42 by Origyptian.
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