Before anyone starts to take what follows too seriously, let me
say that it is offered in the "spirit of the season" shall we say.
That season being the rather irrational season around Halloween
with its ties to the ancient Celts and even to the Egyptians.
Hey - I am trying to avoid pumpkin-carving by pretending to be "at
work" ....
I have to add this caveat, because many normally perceptive
individuals tend to go a little gaga about the Egyptians (or the
Celts) and their accomplishments. You know... "lost knowledge" and
all of that. Don't get me wrong - in the context of what came
before, it is almost like the a major explosion in technology took
place around the start of the 4th Dynasty, leading many to invent
all kinds of hypotheses for that - like "alien" contact and so on.
You can buy into the concept of lost knowledge without going all
the way to alien-contact, but hey... this time of year, anything
goes.
Let's don't even go there, at least not precisely all the way to
aliens... but instead consider a minor detail of the Pyramid of
Cheops - that being the shafts leading from the so-called King's
and Queen's chambers. But that in the context of putative "free
energy". Here is some good detail:
http://www.cheops.org/startpage/thefindings/thefindings.htm
... and I will not go into the various theories regarding the
function of the shafts as passageways for the soul etc, except to
say that when discovered, two of them were heavily filled with
soot. However, there does seem to be a strange Cartouche next to
one shaft which translates to the equivalent of "hyperfine" ....
;-)
Right. Well, in this context, one must introduce the ancient
phenomenon of the "eternal flame" or the "ever-burning lamp" (the
original genie's lamp) --- the importance of which symbol and the
proven relics thereof cannot be over-emphasized to the mentality
of ancient people. The ever-burning lamp was a daily miracle to
them - a goal of pilgrimage and a gift from divinity ...
especially considering the importance of fire - to early
civilization.
Unfortunately, the archaeology often gets mixed up with other
things, as is the case of Ms. Lloyd here:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=12801
...but anyway, in a few of the dozens of ancient sites where
eternal flames were known to have been going, apparently
unattended, and of course worshipped, there has been the prevalent
hypothesis that the source of flame was a slow underground seepage
of natural gas. This source kept the flames going for centuries,
it is said. Many of these were located in caves in areas which
have some hydrocarbon geology - and we all know the stories of
"coal gas" in the Appalachians of the USA. This explanation is
bolstered by the fact that some lamps were extinguished after
earthquakes.
Anyway - back to the shafts in the Pyramid of Cheops, where of
course there is no underground seepage of natural gas, or coal,
and any priest who was carrying a secret lamp-refill would have
been easily spotted ... consequently - one might be justified to
consider whether the shafts themselves could somehow capture of
focus a hidden source of energy, which might be involved in either
augmenting slow combustion or perhaps in powering a natural
iridescence or certain minerals ... or both.
(assuming that these were not the lamps of early grave robbers -
or of the craftsmen finishing the work, which is the mundane
explanation, which we want to avoid at all costs during this
special season of alternative reality <g>)
Anyway, I will leave the "trick-or-treat" answer up to your
imagination, with the hint that if you look closely at the
dimensions of the shafts - it seems that they were trying to make
them pretty close to 21 cm on a side. They might have been lined
with gold or brass at one time, which would have stripped-away by
a later Dynasty to pay the bills. The dimensions are not precise,
but perhaps they were good enough for 'Pharaoh-work' ... as the
slaves used to say back then.
Jones
