Or you can perhaps entertain the theory that human evolution is not the
commonly-accepted straight line trend from the ape until now, at which time
we modern-day humans are at the supreme end-point (all of us) of millions
of years of positive evolution. And there's more to come... In fact
so-called evolution may be like virtually all natural occurrences in that
it comes and goes in very large cycles. Take a look around you and try to
figure out where exactly we are right now in the "evolutionary cycle,"
without placing too much emphasis on our "toys."
It could be that the pyramids were in place well before the Egyptians took
them over as "interesting" burial places. So the idea of the "major
explosion in technology" in ancient Egypt may not be a reasonable
fact. Question of course is, what would have promoted this explosion of
technology?
Anyone looking at the cave paintings in Lascaux, from 15000 years ago, then
looking at the Chauve-Pont-D'arc paintings from about 30000 years ago, may
see that the older paintings were far "better" than the newer ones (which
were quite superb), leading us (well - me, that is) to believe that there
was a high degree of civilization somewhere on Earth, before the Egyptian
one - a mere 4000 years ago - than current dogma lets us believe.
P.
At 08:58 AM 10/28/2006 -0700, you wrote:
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
