Manu Wrote:
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> Of course, the corpus is limited. That's exactly
> why Cladking's application of Zipf's Law to the
> Pyramid Texts make no sense. It cannot be assumed
> to be a representative sample of the entire
> language...

I'm not suggesting it should be a representative sample of the entire language even though it does closely mirror the ALL the other known words. I am suggesting that the absence of words to denote thought is a void too large to explain away any sort of text at all. It is quite apparent that the language is fundamentally different and this is the reason that no sense and no information can be extracted from it.

> The Pyramid Texts are a
> specific genre' of text in which words describing
> imaginary thinking may be underrepresented by
> nature of the fact that these are spells and
> rituals. It makes no sense to write a spell: "I
> believe and thus thou shall believe
> that when I say Pop, a cat will jump from under
> the dining table and hack the snake to
> pieces"...;)

It's equally illogical to announce the birth of gods as though they weren't dreamed up but came into existence by some process. It's illogical to describe hundreds of gods in terms of various animals. It's illogical to leave workers' titles that don't reflect how they built the pyramid. It's illogical that countless thousands of men lived and died on ramps but the word "ramp" is unattested while Egyptologists see them everywhere they look. It's illogical to turn our backs on the pyramids and refuse to do basic testing.

> What is available for example ...
> ...annals of the activities of the kings from Dynasty
> 1-5,

The only "activity" listed on the PS is Menkaure's visit to G3 (?). It's only a couple sentences of somewhat indeterminant meaning.

> Cladking things stones were pulled up
> the pyramid using a trolley and a counter=weight
> with water which came from a geyser under gas
> pressure.

Yes. But more importantly Cladking has shown that ramps were not used and that stones were definitively pulled straight up the side of five step pyramids. He merely believes this was accomplished by harnessing a carbonated aquifer.

CO2 geysers are natural phenomena caused by water heavily saturated in CO2 become unstable in a cascade reaction which pushes the carbonic acid up through the earth.

> This construction theory, he believes
> was recorded on the walls of the pyramids 200
> years later.

The PT are merely rituals associated with the ascension of the king to become the pyramid and star used as a mnemonic. They are not incantation and magic.

What makes them so special is they are written in a different kind of language which has the same natural logic as mathematics. As such many things about the people, their culture, and their knowledge can be deduced.