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Why Build the Great Pyramid

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  Posted by JohnDM (U3105624) on Saturday, 14th October 2006

  
  Usually a pyramid tomb is the 'House of the Sarcophagus' so the 'Tomb of the Pharaoh'.
  
  In respect of the Great Pyramid, no dead Pharaoh was placed into the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber, for it remained empty and is now broken.
  
  So why take a single block of hard red granite and cut out a volume of some 41.68623 cubic feet or 72,034 cubic inches not not place the body of the Pharaoh into it?
  
  Hence, what then was the purpose of the First Wonder of the World?
  
  Or could it be a monument mentioned in the Book of Isaiah 19:19?
  
  JohnDM
  
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  It was the Egyptologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, who measured the somewhat broken granite sarcophagus and with his specially made calipers and gauges, he proceeded to measure the broken granite 4,500 year old sarcophagus using 388 reference points on the outside and 281 points on the inside. And he published the average inside measurements as a length 78.06 and a width 26.81 and a height 34.42 inches. And so an internal volume of the sarcophagus 41.68623 cubic feet, or 72,034 cubic inches. Whereas the external volume is somr 40.8 cubic feet more at about 82.486370 cubic feet, measured at 89.62 x 38.5 x 41.31 inches. The area on the outside of the sarcophagus is about 123.2 square feet and the inside area 44 square feet less at 79.2 square feet a ratio of 14/9.

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  Posted by Dai Bath (U2444609) on Sunday, 15th October 2006

  Hence, what then was the purpose of the First Wonder of the World? Β 
  
  If you accept that the first homo erectus came out of East Africa n years ago and fanned out through to India and west to germany/france and so on, the significance of the pyramids geographically is a wonder in itself. Isn't that where the fanning out began? First it was stream of people from Africa and then they spread out.
  
  I was wondering precisely the same about the pyramids myself last night, and my speculation that the dream time power of a pyramid, every interlocking stone making the pinnacle so much stronger, and any removal of one stone, making it that much weaker, that dream time power was BASED
  on an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY, where the power of the
  person standing on the tip of the pinnacle even on tiptoes, had a net effect, of an infinitely small sort, on every one of the stones beneath.......!
  
  Every person at the base of the pyramid hasa responsibility for maintaining the stability of the one standing on tip toe at the top.
  
  In terms of political responsibility of Presidents of the modern day ( the French president has none whatsoever) the concept of a pyramid of responsibility must be very inviting indeed.
  
  The leap from granite to dream time has been made!
  
  Now how about the Pharaohs?!

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  Posted by Richie (U1238064) on Sunday, 15th October 2006

  John
  
  Dont know about the Issiah reference, "an altar..... and a column on the border"
  
  DOn't know if there's ever been a column found on the border, but the sarcophagus is in a bad place to be used as an altar as you'd never get that many people into use it.
  
  Why build it? Power. It is quite likely that it was intended to be used as a tomb but for some reason was not used as such, what is certain is that after it none were built as magnificant. Pyramids dwindled and eventually were replaced by rock hewn tombs. It is a pinacle though of power and ambition. As well as being of religious significence. Finished in marble with the GOld Cap that it was supposed to have had, can you imagine a more impressive sight first thing in the morning as the sun rises?
  
  To simply be able to dedicate so much time money and national resource to a "folly" to use a 18th Century term is the ultimate show off. "Think those zigurates in Ur are good, come and have a look at this then"
  
  The one thing we can be sure of though is that none of us will ever be able to say with certainity exactly why

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  Posted by Dai Bath (U2444609) on Monday, 16th October 2006

  It is a pinacle though of power and ambition. As well as being of religious significence.Β 
  
  A slightly different take on Christianity in the sense that the dead have power over the living...not due to their intellectual legacy(!) but their monuments.
  
  I don't suppose any of those rulers said anything like "Peter is the rock and on this rock I build my church!"......
  
  Yet again literacy of the rulers was essential and probably in the case of those Egyptians FLUENCY in reading and writing may not have been possible in the way it became to the Hebrew people using a different and better script.
  
  With FLUENT literacy passed on from generation to generation, the instructions for the "building of the church" was clear!

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  Posted by jofl16 (U1851017) on Tuesday, 17th October 2006

  Sounds like you're in a dream-world

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  Posted by DopeyFrances (U6235658) on Saturday, 21st October 2006

  I thought the pyramids were 'space ships' which would take the Pharaoh back to where every he came from. If they were, then you would not expect to find him in his tomb.
  
  Well, that was the story I heard. I think it's just a story, but it could be the way people thought in those days.
  
  It's so hard to imagine what was going on in their minds, don't you think.

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  Posted by cladking (U6255252) on Sunday, 22nd October 2006

  The written language was becoming more common at the time the great pyramid was built. Before writing one had to find teachers to gain the accumulated knowledge of previous generations but now one could find the manuscripts instead.
  
  The ancients must have known full well that their way of life was coming to an end. They would have realized that with increased knowledge would come increased specialization and lesser understanding of them and of pre-history. They built the pyramids because they could and show that they were not merely illiterate but rather thinking and understanding individuals. They built the pyramids to tell all men that we are much more than merely machines to scratch the earth and plant our crops. They built the pyramids to tell us that it is more important to use knowledge than to simply possess it.

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