The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries: With a New Theory as to their Ancient Use — John Shaqi
The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries: With a New Theory as to their Ancient UseBallard, Robert
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The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries: With a New Theory as to their Ancient Use
Ballard, Robert
Pyramids
For instance, it is just possible that the very accurately and
beautifully worked stones in the walls of the King's chamber of Cheops,
may be found to indicate the ratios of the rectangles formed by the
bases and perpendiculars of the triangulations used by the old
surveyors--that on these walls may be found, in fact, corroboration of
the theory that I have set forth. I am led to believe also from the fact
that Gïzeh was a central and commanding locality, and that it was the
custom of those who preceded those Egyptians that history tells of, to
excavate mighty caverns in the earth--that, therefore, in the limestone
upon which the pyramids are built, and underneath the pyramids, may be
found vast excavations, chambers and galleries, that had entrance on the
face of the ridge at the level of High Nile. From this subterraneous
city, occupied by the priests and the surveyors of Memphis, access may
be found to every pyramid; and while to the outside world the pyramids
might have appeared sealed up as mausoleums to the Kings that it may
have seen publicly interred therein, this very sealing and closing of
the outer galleries may have only rendered their mysterious recesses
more private to the priests who entered from below, and who were,
perhaps, enabled to ascend by private passages to their very summits.
The recent discovery of a number of regal mummies stowed away in an out
of the way cave on the banks of the Nile, points to the unceremonious
manner in which the real rulers of Kings and people may have dealt with
their sovereigns, the pomp and circumstance of a public burial once
over. It is just possible that the chambers in the pyramids may have
been used in connection with their mysteries: and the small passages
called by some "ventilators" or "air passages," sealed as they were from
the chamber by a thin stone (and therefore no ventilators) may have been
_auditory passages_ along which sound might have been projected from
other chambers not yet opened by the moderns; sounds which were perhaps
a part of the "hanky panky" of the ancient ceremonial connected with
the "mysteries" or the "religion" of that period.
Down that "well" which exists in the interior of Cheops, and in the
limestone foundations of the pyramid, should I be disposed to look for
openings into the vast subterraneous chambers which I am convinced _do_
exist below the Pyramids of Gïzeh.
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