So I just watched the French documentary "Giza Pyramids" from 2023, featuring both French-speaking and English-speaking Egyptologists. OK, fine, so the officialdom is finally paying attention to possible alignements between the pyramids at Giza and the stars in the night sky. They even mention Robert Bauval´s controversial Orion hypothesis. I must say that their criticism of it is extremely lazy, though! One prominent archeologist, Mark Lehner, claims that it´s hard to believe that the Egyptians could have made such correlations, since...it´s pitch dark at night, so they couldn´t see anything?!
Ahem, Mark, I´m sure the ancient Egyptians knew how to make flaming torches...
The other objections are of a similarly unserious character. Finally, we meet somebody who explains how these accursed Hamites could have made the necessary measurements with the aid of two instruments known as "merkhet" and "bay".
The docu also proposes its own correlation hypothesis: the "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid are pointing at Orion, Sirius, Kochab and Thuban, which all play a prominent symbolical role in Egyptian mythology. For instance, Osiris is associated with Orion and Sirius with Isis. Pharaoh´s soul was presumably expected to rise through these shafts until it reached an immortal realm among the constellations.
So it seems the fringe speculations were kind of right, after all.
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