Hi Dennis,

DUNE Wrote:
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> And then you have to ask yourself, are G1 and G2
> really 4th Dynasty pyramids,
> I know this has been pointed out many times
> before, but it seems we are no nearer to resolving
> this mystery.

A little something else to chew on-mastabas are houses of the dead literally meant to be the same as in life as best one could afford. If one could not bury the actual object with them they thought they might need in the afterlife a drawing would substitute just fine, which regardless, when finished as a rule the mastaba was to be lavishly adorned with art and writing. A pyramid is not this. Its is something else. The question is that in these tombs we do not find drawings of pyramids plastered all over the walls or carved on sarcophagi-instead we see time and again some form of this the palace facade building. Pyramids are supposed to be "resurrection machines", they buried themselves around them and pharaohs supposedly in them, yet it was of little to no consequence for them in the afterlife? This seems quite a contradiction. Yet by the same token this palace facade building, if only the doorway for some, was of paramount importance. Surely this means something as to their purpose and meaning for both the palace facade building and pyramids.