The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only known eight-sided pyramid
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- The Great Pyramid is a scale model of Earth, at a ratio of 1:43,200 (a significant number)
- It also encodes its own latitude and longitude
- Its base perimeter is equal to 1/2 a minute of latitude (1/43,200th of 360 degrees)
- It's aligned to true north within 3/60 of one degree (making it, I believe, the most accurately aligned structure on the planet)
These are not undisputed claims, but there is absolutely something different about 4th dynasty pyramids that is worth exploring. There are many, many anomalies about Giza that defy explanation. Another example is precision stone cutting and drilling from thousands of years ago.
For detailed explanations of the above, check out the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGQU3m9E34&t=795 (timelinked, but the entire video is excellent)
https://youtu.be/H43z2xAis4c?list=PLvuraN2vNappZ6m4jNiK5rDDm...
and this blog: http://garyosborn.moonfruit.com/1-43200/4594099844
This is one of my favorite topics to discuss.
3/60 of a degree is mildly impressive (Wikipedia says 4 minutes of arc rather than 3), but I seriously doubt that it's the most accurately aligned structure on the planet. With modern technology, surely we could align something much more closely than that given a good reason to do so.
Is this a joke that’s whooshing over my head?
So, what are the odds that this is or isn't a coincidence? Could the ancient Egyptians have measured the two circumferences of the Earth that accurately at that point in history?
The odds of the sides of the pyramids being reasonably close to some convenient multiple or fraction of some other pair of measures that are related to each other, and that that would happen by coincidence alone, is about 100%.
It's much lower for any particular pair of measures, or any particular fraction or multiple, but given all the possibilities for both base measurement pairs and fractions/multiples, it's near certain that any pair of measurements would fit that with some other pair of measurements.
Massage the numbers until they fit. 1/4 of one degree of a coordinate system that hadn’t been invented yet? Why not 1/8? 1/2?
But quick glances at Wikipedia don't suggest anything concrete, and in fact it seems like Egyptians used base-10 numbers. So yeah - it does seem to be a stretch that they'd set the bases of their pyramids to be exactly 1/1440th of the Earth's circumference along two different great circles.
How then were they able to derive pi and phi, which the GP is inextricably related to? (https://www.goldennumber.net/phi-pi-great-pyramid-egypt/)
I have some theories on this, but they are more speculative and less substantiated than what's been discussed so far.
That humans can mimic this without necessarily having the mathematical formulas is not shocking.
Given the other "anomalies" about the pyramids, along with their relationship to sacred geometry, my opinion is it's impossible these are coincidences.
Is that referring to true North today or in 2560 B.C?
> Here I use trends in the orientation of Old Kingdom pyramids to demonstrate that the Egyptians aligned them to north by using the simultaneous transit of two circumpolar stars. Modelling the precession of these stars yields a date for the start of construction of the Great Pyramid that is accurate to ±5 yr, thereby providing an anchor for the Old Kingdom chronologies.
or commentary from New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn174-pyramid-precision...
> Instead, the alignment of successive pyramids first steadily improved up to the building of the Great Pyramid, then later deteriorated. This makes perfect sense, she says, if the architects were measuring the alignment using not one star, but two: Mizar in Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) and Kochab in Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper).
Others have other ideas of how to do the alignment - https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologist-secret-why-the-gr... .
The alignment of a structure fixed to the ground, relative to true north, will change over time, because the while the axis of the earth can be viewed as fixed, the land on the Earth is not fixed with respect to that axis, but moves.
Since the great pyramid was build 4500 years ago the mid atlantic ridge has only moved about 100m. That's just lateral translation, most of which probably did not end up moving egypt much anyway and definitely not enough to throw off the direction a pyramid is pointing by more than a second or two.
Although I’m still confused on this: how would the Egyptians know to align a building with this specific point on a sphere before the geographic convention existed, and both magnetic North and astronomic markers were in different positions?
If you're lucky, as the stars move one of them stays still or almost still, it points North (or, in the other hemisphere you've got one pointing South). Today Polaris fills that role and we call it the "North Star".
No, it's not.
It's a rectangular pyramid, and the Earth is a slightly oblate spheroid. If you were given a task to make a scale model of the latter and produced the former, regardless of measurement, you'd be laughed out of the room.
Does anybody have different, perhaps more reliable sources to confirm this?
Sample image: https://hiddenincatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/b3eab...
To my eyes, the "crease" is evident in all but the right side.
It's a four sided pyramid, where each side has a concave bend in the middle, only really visible from a top down perspective. The article contains enhanced, but completely valid photos of it.
It is unknown if this was an intentional design aspect. It does not seem to be a feature of any occult purpose. Sneferu's Bent Pyramid does "not" have 8 sides, but was incorrectly completed at a later date at the wrong angle, thus often used as a (useless) comparison.
All other pyramids in Egypt seem to just be normally 4 sides with no concave outer walls.
tl;dr The Pyramid of Giza is only 8 sides on a technicality. It approximates the usual, and expected, tetrahedral shape.
William Matthews Flinders Petrie is mentioned as having written La Description de l’Egypte in the 1700's - this is inaccurate, the man was born in 1853: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie. On a quick search I can't find mention of La Description de l’Egypte, either in French or English.
They're also quoting a text by I.E.S. Edwards at the end. He seems to be a real person, but they quote a 1975 edition of his book, which I can't find on google books (https://books.google.nl/books?q=editions:ISBN0140136347&id=d...).
The mention of British Air Force pilot, P. Groves pops up in multiple places, but none looks particularly trustworthy to me.
It's extremely slight. And, again, not an occult or religious feature, just a quirk of its design.
They're only eight sided if you don't count the base, too.
(Yes, I'm joking)