Martin Stower Wrote:
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> seasmith Wrote:
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> > ?
> > Question from an amateur, for anyone:
> > R. Pearse routinely equates the translated term
> "
> > akhet- khufu" as the Great Pyramid.
> >
> > How do we know for sure it is specifically the
> > pyramid, and not the Giza Plateau, which Is an
> > actual 'horizon' ?
> >
> > tyia
>
> It’s written with a pyramid determinative, as
> here:
>
> [url=http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,12
> 01831,1206592#msg-1206592]http://grahamhancock.com
> /phorum/read.php?1,1201831,1206592#msg-1206592[/ur
> l]
>
> Less clear in the hieratic of the papyrus, but the
> determinative is there.
>
> M.

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That's better.

Akhet, besides denoting E and W horizons, is also translated as the 'season of the inundation', which was observed over many millennia by migrations to and from wet / dry Saharas and the Nile.
The high ground of the Giza Plateau of course predates the GP, and we do not know the earliest origin of the word Ak-het, but it will have predated the associated symbols.

Not arguing your point here, merely widening the view.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 27-Nov-19 04:03 by seasmith.