RECREATING THE CREATION
The three grand pyramids of the Giza Plateau are said to mimic the belt stars of Orion. It has been proposed and mostly accepted that these three stars - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka - appeared in the night sky in a particular alignment as the three pyramids now appear on the ground, and the planning of the plateau was based upon this correlation. From this identification, astral alignments have been made that apparently show very good correlations to a 'planning' period for the pyramids and their locations, and this is speculated as being somewhere around 10,500BCE. In this time period, the stars rose upon the horizon in the east in such a way as to mimic the layout of the pyramids in their north-south arrangement, and while it is hard to accept such a correlation between stars and pyramids, the possibility of this being more than coincidence should not be overlooked, at least as much as being an impetus towards a better understanding of the architecture.
For the most part, having this kind of correlation between pyramids and celestial observation offers up a simple key that is significant towards this better understanding of the pyramid itself: Orion rises upon the eastern horizon in such a way that it reflects the layout of the three Giza pyramids, although the image has been turned 90 degrees for their north to south alignment. It is a simple observation, but one that only adhered itself to the configuration of the three pyramids and did not extend to any single pyramid. It was a group thing.
The shafts and passages of the pyramid have been said to align towards particular stars that also show the configuration of the cosmos somewhere around 10,500 BCE as being some kind of model for the pyramid, but this kind of acceptance as being important is hard to digest considering that the stars of Khufu's time can also be used to show shaft and passage alignments that are just as acceptable. While there are very few parts to the finished construction, what there are speaks loud if we can only attune ourselves to what has been left for us, and see the pyramid by donning a completely different pair of glasses than the many that have been worn before.
There are several references that can be used to model the pyramid from because of the surveys performed upon it, and certainly the results of a survey by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the late 1800s is considered the most complete and accurate. His attention to detail and performing several measurements at each step allowed his results to be unmatched and accepted as very precise.
In 1993 Rudolph Gantenbrink, a robotics engineer contracted to clean out the shafts of the King's Chamber for installation of air conditioning into the pyramid, used a robotic device to investigate the shafts of the main chambers, and discovered the Queen’s Chamber shafts having blocked ends several metres inside the pyramid's surface... blocked ends with a small cavity beyond, as was found by a subsequent investigation of the shafts several years later.
Using Petrie's and Gantenbrink's published results to construct a three dimensional computer model, it became apparent that there were slight discrepancies found on the angles of the shafts of the chambers, and these would be identified as having had some influence upon previous analyses of the pyramid and to what the shafts could align. Once the model is complete, and an astronomical overlay is sought that aligns with features of the pyramid, the differences of the shaft angles can be identified and defined, and this would offer a difference to plans and models that have been used by other modellers and researchers previously.
In the outset, the base lengths, estimated complete height, passage sizes and angles, and chamber constructions were recreated in as exact a likeness as possible using the software program Google Sketch Up. This program is widely used for computer modelling, and has garnered a name for itself as being not only user-friendly but also capable of true architectural and engineering design. Laying the basis points down for modelling the pyramid, it was found that not all of Petrie’s nor Gantenbrink’s results were precise to the inch, as some figures made things overlap or have space between two intersections. For such as the shafts, the facts given by Petrie and Gantenbrink did not equate to how the shafts actually sat within the pyramid, and through trial and error, a representation of the shafts was arrived at that bridged the slight discrepancies between Petrie and Gantenbrink.
The purpose of the second part of this analysis is to identify a view of the sky as seen from the Giza Plateau, and overlay it upon the model so that the form, passages, chambers and shafts interact with the sky and identify a possible exact time that the pyramid was modelled from. As the northern shafts of the two main chambers wend their ways about the placement of the Grand Gallery, there are several angles and directions that can project outwards from the pyramid in their aiming towards the astral bodies beyond. The shafts are a particular size also, as are the passages, so defining exact intersections in the analysis will result in a range of possibilities that the astral overlay can portray, and offer up a range of years that the sky can be viewed as.
One thing that has become apparent through seeking an understanding for the model of the pyramid's plan is that there are layers of meaning within and of the whole: the geometry of the pyramid defines particular mathematical formulas expressed towards its form; particular parts of the pyramid seem to border some mathematical formulas while also bordering something else entirely, especially concerning lengths of time; and certainly, as alluded to in the association between the construction and astronomical overlays, there are references to the celestial layout and its motions surrounding our planet.
There is one other detail that will be used as a measure towards the whole: the form above the pyramid’s entrance.
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The three grand pyramids of the Giza Plateau are said to mimic the belt stars of Orion. It has been proposed and mostly accepted that these three stars - Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka - appeared in the night sky in a particular alignment as the three pyramids now appear on the ground, and the planning of the plateau was based upon this correlation. From this identification, astral alignments have been made that apparently show very good correlations to a 'planning' period for the pyramids and their locations, and this is speculated as being somewhere around 10,500BCE. In this time period, the stars rose upon the horizon in the east in such a way as to mimic the layout of the pyramids in their north-south arrangement, and while it is hard to accept such a correlation between stars and pyramids, the possibility of this being more than coincidence should not be overlooked, at least as much as being an impetus towards a better understanding of the architecture.
For the most part, having this kind of correlation between pyramids and celestial observation offers up a simple key that is significant towards this better understanding of the pyramid itself: Orion rises upon the eastern horizon in such a way that it reflects the layout of the three Giza pyramids, although the image has been turned 90 degrees for their north to south alignment. It is a simple observation, but one that only adhered itself to the configuration of the three pyramids and did not extend to any single pyramid. It was a group thing.
The shafts and passages of the pyramid have been said to align towards particular stars that also show the configuration of the cosmos somewhere around 10,500 BCE as being some kind of model for the pyramid, but this kind of acceptance as being important is hard to digest considering that the stars of Khufu's time can also be used to show shaft and passage alignments that are just as acceptable. While there are very few parts to the finished construction, what there are speaks loud if we can only attune ourselves to what has been left for us, and see the pyramid by donning a completely different pair of glasses than the many that have been worn before.
There are several references that can be used to model the pyramid from because of the surveys performed upon it, and certainly the results of a survey by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the late 1800s is considered the most complete and accurate. His attention to detail and performing several measurements at each step allowed his results to be unmatched and accepted as very precise.
In 1993 Rudolph Gantenbrink, a robotics engineer contracted to clean out the shafts of the King's Chamber for installation of air conditioning into the pyramid, used a robotic device to investigate the shafts of the main chambers, and discovered the Queen’s Chamber shafts having blocked ends several metres inside the pyramid's surface... blocked ends with a small cavity beyond, as was found by a subsequent investigation of the shafts several years later.
Using Petrie's and Gantenbrink's published results to construct a three dimensional computer model, it became apparent that there were slight discrepancies found on the angles of the shafts of the chambers, and these would be identified as having had some influence upon previous analyses of the pyramid and to what the shafts could align. Once the model is complete, and an astronomical overlay is sought that aligns with features of the pyramid, the differences of the shaft angles can be identified and defined, and this would offer a difference to plans and models that have been used by other modellers and researchers previously.
In the outset, the base lengths, estimated complete height, passage sizes and angles, and chamber constructions were recreated in as exact a likeness as possible using the software program Google Sketch Up. This program is widely used for computer modelling, and has garnered a name for itself as being not only user-friendly but also capable of true architectural and engineering design. Laying the basis points down for modelling the pyramid, it was found that not all of Petrie’s nor Gantenbrink’s results were precise to the inch, as some figures made things overlap or have space between two intersections. For such as the shafts, the facts given by Petrie and Gantenbrink did not equate to how the shafts actually sat within the pyramid, and through trial and error, a representation of the shafts was arrived at that bridged the slight discrepancies between Petrie and Gantenbrink.
The purpose of the second part of this analysis is to identify a view of the sky as seen from the Giza Plateau, and overlay it upon the model so that the form, passages, chambers and shafts interact with the sky and identify a possible exact time that the pyramid was modelled from. As the northern shafts of the two main chambers wend their ways about the placement of the Grand Gallery, there are several angles and directions that can project outwards from the pyramid in their aiming towards the astral bodies beyond. The shafts are a particular size also, as are the passages, so defining exact intersections in the analysis will result in a range of possibilities that the astral overlay can portray, and offer up a range of years that the sky can be viewed as.
One thing that has become apparent through seeking an understanding for the model of the pyramid's plan is that there are layers of meaning within and of the whole: the geometry of the pyramid defines particular mathematical formulas expressed towards its form; particular parts of the pyramid seem to border some mathematical formulas while also bordering something else entirely, especially concerning lengths of time; and certainly, as alluded to in the association between the construction and astronomical overlays, there are references to the celestial layout and its motions surrounding our planet.
There is one other detail that will be used as a measure towards the whole: the form above the pyramid’s entrance.
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