The Great Pyramid

The 'Second' Pyramid of Giza is unique in having two northern entrances. Again, this is a sign of duality, and there may be a link with Gemini. The bottom few courses of this pyramid, up to a height of about 30 feet, are built of gigantic blocks, similar to the core masonry blocks used in the megalithic Giza temples, which were quarried from around the Sphinx. Since the temple alongside the Second Pyramid is linked to a temple near the Sphinx by a causeway, the lower part of the pyramid was probably built at the same time as the Sphinx.* Several writers, including the astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer, have suggested that the Sphinx is half lion, half virgin, and symbolizes the junction of the constellations Leo and Virgo (it also symbolizes the supremacy of the spiritual self over the animal self). Significantly, at the same time as the summer solstice passes from Virgo into Leo, the spring equinox passes from Gemini into Taurus. The last time this event occurred was around 6580 years ago, but if we go back a further three precessional cycles, we arrive at an epoch 84,340 years ago. At this time the lower descending passage of the Second Pyramid would have been aligned with Lambda Bootes, the previous polestar of that era.

*The Sphinx does not face due east but 4.25 degrees south of east; its azimuth is therefore 94.25 degrees -- or 30-pi. The Sphinx is a very tiny (and perhaps very young) kitten by comparison with the enormous 5500-foot-long Panther Mound in Florida, whose location, as Carl Munck has shown, encodes the key number 30-pi. (See The Code 1997, pp. 85-7, L L Productions, 700-112 Ave., N.E., Suite G-1, Bellevue WASH 98004; http://www.pyramidmatrix.com.)
Alnitak, the star represented by the Great Pyramid, coincided with the vernal equinox 83,860 years ago (i.e. its ecliptic longitude was 0°), and at this time the Pyramid's descending passage would have been aligned with the then polestar, Alkaid (in Ursa Major). The lower part of the Pyramid may date from this time, including the subterranean chamber and the descending passage (or at least the part cut out of the bedrock).* The Second Pyramid may have been completed around 83,770 years ago, when Alnilam, the star that it represents, coincided with the vernal equinox, and its upper descending passage was aligned with Alkaid. Some 70 years later, Mintaka, the star represented by the Third Pyramid, coincided with the equinox and the descending passage pointed at Alkaid. According to an ancient Arab inscription, when the Great Pyramid and Second Pyramid were built, the Lyre (or Vulture) was in Cancer. At the dates mentioned here, the celestial meridian of Vega, the brightest star in the Lyre, would have intersected the ecliptic in Cancer and Capricorn. The causeways leading to the Great Pyramid and Second Pyramid point 14 degrees to the north and south of due east respectively, and at this epoch, this was exactly one-third of the angle between due east and the sunrise points at the summer and winter solstices.