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The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid
by C. Staniland Wake
[1882]
In this classic of Pyramidology, C. Staniland Wake attempts to answer the questions: who actually built the pyramids, and why? He rejects the conventional theory that they were tombs, and explores astronomical and religious motivations for their construction instead.
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THE
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THE GREAT PYRAMID
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C. STANILAND WAKE
AUTHOR OF "THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY," &c., &c.
LONDON:
REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, W.C.
[1882]
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Frontispiece: The GREAT PYRAMID of Gizeh, from the sand-hills above Mena House Hotel; showing the terminus of the carriage-drive which connects Cairo with the Pyramids.
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Front End Papers: Passage System of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh
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Back End Papers: Chamber System of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh
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PREFACE
The subject treated of in the following pages has during the last few years attracted much attention, thanks to the influence of Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth's important work, "Life and Work at the Great Pyramid." It was to test, by the light of history, the conclusion accepted by that writer as to the inspired origin of the Great Pyramid that I entered upon a consideration of the subject. That such an origin was required by the facts, I did not suppose, but the conviction was forced on me that the structure had much more importance, viewed as a scientific and religious monument, than was generally conceded. I found nothing, however, to show that either its design or its construction necessitated Divine intervention. I was led to the conclusion, nevertheless, that the builders of the Great Pyramid intended to perpetuate certain scientific ideas, and, moreover, that they had a religious motive in its ****. There is little doubt, indeed, that it is a monument of Sabaism—the worship of the heavenly host, which had a wide extension in the ancient world, and with which "Serpent worship" was intimately connected. The importance of the Great Pyramid as a religico-scientific structure is still further increased if, as is not improbable, it was intended to mark the substitution of an astronomy based on the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the Zodiac for the lunar astronomy which preceded it. My endeavour has been
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to state fairly the historical conditions of the problem considered, and to point out the direction in which its solution must be sought. With the question as to the original source from which the wisdom of the Ancients, of which the Great Pyramid is so wonderful a monument, was derived, these pages are not concerned.
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The Serpent, enclosed in a pyramid, given on the cover, is taken from a gem figured in Matter's "Histoire Critique du Gnosticism," planche II B, figure 2. It is there said to be the Solar Chnouphis or Agathodemon—Christos, with the seven sons of Sophia (Wisdom), the seven planetary genii.
The substance of this little work was read as a Paper before the Hull Literary Club on the 13th March, 1882.
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The Sphinx, and the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY
PAGE
THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH
1
THEORY OF INSPIRED ORIGIN OF GREAT PYRAMID
2
DATE OF ****
6
ASTRONOMICAL EXPLANATION OF STRUCTURE
7
ASTROLOGICAL THEORY OF ORIGIN
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PRIMARY OBJECT RELIGIOUS
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CHAPTER II
EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
SUPPOSED INABILITY OF ANCIENT PEOPLES TO DESIGN THE GREAT PYRAMID
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EARLIEST EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS
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DIFFERENCES OF INTERNAL CONSTRUCTION
25
EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION UNDER FOURTH DYNASTY
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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION AT FOUNDATION OF MONARCHY
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CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLIER EGYPTIANS
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CHAPTER III
THE TOMB THEORY
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TESTIMONY OF GREEK WRITERS
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COMPARISON WITH FACTS
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THE TOMB OF CHEOPS
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USE OF PYRAMIDS AS TOMBS
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ABSENCE OF RELICS EXPLAINED
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CHAPTER IV
THE RELIGIOUS THEORY
THE GREAT PYRAMID CONSIDERED AS A TEMPLE
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THE SABÆANS AND THE PYRAMIDS
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SETH AND OSIRIS
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SETH THE GOD OF THE SEMITES AND THE HYKSOS
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ASSOCIATION OF SETH WITH THE GREAT PYRAMID
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CHAPTER V
SETH AND SERPENT WORSHIP
THE GOD OF WISDOM
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IDEAS CONNECTED WITH THE SERPENT
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SETH IDENTIFIED WITH TYPHON
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ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SERPENT
81
THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE DELUGE
83
AGE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
85
THE PYRAMID AND THE CONSTELLATIONS
87
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NOTE.
ON THE COFFER IN THE "KING'S CHAMBER"
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APPENDIX I.
DR. SPRENGER ON THE CONNECTION OF SETH AND HERMES WITH THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH
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APPENDIX II.
MASOUDI'S ACCOUNT OF THE ****, ETC., OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
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Human skulls unearthed during the excavations of the Temple of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh.
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THE
ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE
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THE GREAT PYRAMID
CHAPTER I
THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY
THE GREEKS of the time of Alexander the Great were so impressed with the magnitude or splendour of certain edifices, that they spoke of them as the seven wonders of the world. Among these, the first place was given to the Pyramids of Egypt, and pre-eminently to those of Ghizeh, which are situate a few miles from Cairo, and in the neighbourhood of ancient Memphis. The Pyramids of Ghizeh form a group of nine, consisting of three large ones, known as the Pyramid of Cheops, or the Great Pyramid; that of Cephren; and that of Mycerinus, which is inferior in size to either of the others. The six other pyramids of the Ghizeh group are much smaller,
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and arc supposed to be the tombs of female relatives of the kings who constructed the larger ones. From the term "Great" applied to the largest pyramid, it might be thought that it far exceeds in size any of the others. As a fact, however, the Pyramid of Cephren is not very much smaller than that of Cheops, which was about 756 feet square at the base and 480 feet high, as against 707 feet 9 inches the extreme length of the sides, and 454 the height, of the Second Pyramid. Moreover, the construction of the two pyramids was, according to Col. Vyse, carried on upon the same principles. This is true more especially of the general design and external characters of the buildings, which in their internal features, however, differ considerably. The position of the chambers, and the inclination of the passages of the Great Pyramid are exceptional, and, judging from these peculiarities and from certain scientific facts supposed to be embodied in it, several modern writers have affirmed that the design for the Great Pyramid must have been derived from an inspired source. The originator of this theory was John Taylor who in 1859, published a book on the subject *
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and as in recent years it has attracted considerable attention, chiefly through its adoption by the author of "Life and Work at the Great Pyramid," Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, and as the scientific facts on which it is based are admittedly true, it is necessary to consider the theory.
In the first place, the Great Pyramid is said to embody in its form and proportions certain facts as to the size and shape of the earth. Thus, John Taylor says that the builders of the Great Pyramid "imagined the earth to be a sphere, and as they knew that the radius of a circle must bear a certain proportion to its circumference, they built a four-sided pyramid of such a height in proportion to its base that its perpendicular would be the radius of a sphere equal to the perimeter of the base." This shape is supposed to have reference to an important astronomical fact, seeing that "the vertical height of the Great Pyramid multiplied by 10 to the 9th power (109) tells the mean distance of the sun from the earth—that is, one thousand million times the pyramid's height, or 91,840,000 miles." * Moreover,
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the Great Pyramid is thought to supply a standard of linear measure, based on the length of the polar axis of the earth. Assuming this length to be 500,500,000 of our inches, the 500 millionth of that axis (omitting fractions) will be one inch. Of these inches, 25 or 25.025 of our inches would form a cubit or longer standard, the ten millionth part of the semi-axis of the globe in length, which is the measure of the sacred cubit of the ancient Hebrews. This cubit of 25 earth inches is contained in each side of the Great Pyramid as many times as there are days in the year, and the inch itself "is contained separately and independently in the entire perimeter of the Great Pyramid's base just one hundred times for each day of the year." The inch is also said to be the "representative of a year in the reckoning of the passage floor lines as charts of history, also in the diagonals of the pyramid's base taken as a measure of the precessional cycle."
The Great Pyramid is found, moreover, to furnish an important weight and capacity measure
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