Chris Jordan wrote:

> That white area is not big enough for the summit lake in stage
> 3. The middle green square is about the right size imo. Well if
> it covered the whole summit, if I designed it I would split it
> into certain areas, but thats just me.

I doubt they would or could or even would desire to store more water than they could use in a day or two. They would have kept these lakes large and shallow bvecause they would need tolift water to the top of the lake to add it but mostly had to use the water from the bottomof the lake through weirs. In other words all the lifting or natural energy that was consumed by lifting water the depth of the lake would be wasted. Unlike us they were appalled by waste. This was an abomination of the highest order to do work that didn't need to be done or waster resources. These people were scientists and were aware the culture only had as much wealth as they used at 100% efficiency. We waste everything; they wasted nothing.

> That is very much in line with my model. They stored the water
> there and then let it run down when appropriate. west in the
> evening, east in the morning.

This is remarkable. We seem to have come to the same conclusion by different routes;

1313a. The buttocks of N. are like those of the boat of the evening, and the boat of the morning,
1313b. when he ascends and lifts, himself to the sky.
1981a. Thy libation is poured by Isis, [Nephthys has purified thee]--
1981b. [thy two sisters] great and powerful, who collected thy flesh,
1981c. who bound together thy limbs, who made thy two eyes to appear in thy face--
11982a. the boat of the evening and the boat of the morning,

> suspect these would be the points where the weir released the
> water rather than the exits of the shafts.

I'm thinking that during actual construction (not usage) that most of the water would be channeled to the counterweights through weirs. They had to use weirs because they had expensive oil floating on the water and the weirs would allow the water to flow out leaving the oil behind.

> I might be guilty of looking for things that fit my model too,
> everyone does it, mainstream or alts, its the nature of the
> history game. Its why I prefer the tech side which either works
> or does not. As long as we don't get too attached and can
> change our minds in the event there is a better explanation, we
> won't be as guilty as the orthodoxy. Speculate as much as you
> like, somehow u keep pulling out texts that I really appreciate

There's a great deal more about the actua;l process of the operation of the morning and evening boats if you're interested. Utterance #473 I call "clockwork pyramid" because it describes the entire process. It's in dire need of retranslation but it's almost all there. I have now found both a generic and specific word for the counterweight. In fact I also have two general terms for the entire contraption as parts (one, of course, being the "boats of balance").

I suppose we're all going to have to get together and wrap a nice pretty bow around the truth and serve it to Egyptology on a silver platter. My guess is they'll send it back and keep divining bones and troweling for ramps even after they've become a laughing stock. I'm becoming increasingly confident the alt ideas can be proven with no help at all from orthodoxy.