Much can be said about Khufu’s Pyramid and its potential offerings for its architecture relating to the sky and Earth in some way. Many folk have presented their theories which mainly come down to math and relationships of various of the pyramid’s measures, features and alignments identifying either the whole cosmos or parts of it, and the size of Earth, either in direct scale of pyramid to one or the other or both at the same time, While contention still floats about the exact plan or plans the pyramid is modelled from, one offering that does have potential to pinpoint the plan’s reference comes from two particular presentations: an x-ray view of the pyramid from north to south; a correlating celestial scene in the year 12,140BCE.
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The image is from Stellarium showing midday just after the winter solstice, 12,140BCE
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X-ray view of pyramid from north side through south
The celestial scene shows the moment when the sun reaches midday against the background stars, as viewed from Khufu’s Pyramid on a day when Sirius will be at its lowest altitude during the cycle of Precession. At the moment of the image, Sirius is just 25arc-seconds above the horizon and 8m 26s away from aligning to the southern meridian when it will be just 01’ 26.2” above the horizon. Sirius stays this low for a few years before making its way up into the sky. The date of the image is March 19, while exact winter solstice is March 17...Sirius will be about 03’ 10” below the horizon when the sun reaches midday but I offer the 19th instead because the moon is right next to the sun.
When Sirius is at its lowest altitude, we can see Orion standing as it does with Saiph and Rigel resting just below the horizon, while several minutes earlier both stars were just above the horizon. It is simple enough to adjust the time and thus the scene to offer slightly different views of the cosmos but there is no real point to this...just the appearance as is is enough for this topic.
Orion appears as though his shoulders are on the horizon while body is below and head above, and a comparison can be made to a statue of a Pharaoh or Osiris, and the x-ray view through the pyramid. Folk have previously offered this view through the pyramid shows the form of a man in much the same profile as a statue, but the consideration of why it is positioned thus has always been elusive.
Osiris statue
(click on image of statue facing to the right)
In my work on celestial and terrestrial associations to the pyramid, I identified Sirius in Precession as being the responsible party for one of the plans for the pyramid, where Sirius is represented by the floor of the middle chamber, Canopus in the subterranean chamber, and the winter solstice sun just above the top part of the Grand Gallery where the muon scan project has identified a void to exist. The celestial scene is thus the same as the image above. My alignment of scene to pyramid occurs atop the 20th course of blocks of the pyramid which passes through the feature above the pyramid’s entrance. That feature shows two mounds connected by a valley, and the top of the 20th course is right at the base of that valley. This is the horizon through the pyramid, and aligns to the horizon of the celestial scene as viewed from the pyramid’s location. Yes, folk don’t like that correlation nor the work presented, but I would like to include this topic toward that.
Orion...Osiris in its way...bridging what is below with what is above the horizon...depicting the very personification of Osiris as Lord of the Underworld. Just 1 hour before dawn, as the sun’s glow begins in the sky, Orion is resting on its side below the horizon with Cursa just above the horizon.
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For this topic, I am wondering how folk feel about such imagery and associations.
Cheers
The image is from Stellarium showing midday just after the winter solstice, 12,140BCE
X-ray view of pyramid from north side through south
The celestial scene shows the moment when the sun reaches midday against the background stars, as viewed from Khufu’s Pyramid on a day when Sirius will be at its lowest altitude during the cycle of Precession. At the moment of the image, Sirius is just 25arc-seconds above the horizon and 8m 26s away from aligning to the southern meridian when it will be just 01’ 26.2” above the horizon. Sirius stays this low for a few years before making its way up into the sky. The date of the image is March 19, while exact winter solstice is March 17...Sirius will be about 03’ 10” below the horizon when the sun reaches midday but I offer the 19th instead because the moon is right next to the sun.
When Sirius is at its lowest altitude, we can see Orion standing as it does with Saiph and Rigel resting just below the horizon, while several minutes earlier both stars were just above the horizon. It is simple enough to adjust the time and thus the scene to offer slightly different views of the cosmos but there is no real point to this...just the appearance as is is enough for this topic.
Orion appears as though his shoulders are on the horizon while body is below and head above, and a comparison can be made to a statue of a Pharaoh or Osiris, and the x-ray view through the pyramid. Folk have previously offered this view through the pyramid shows the form of a man in much the same profile as a statue, but the consideration of why it is positioned thus has always been elusive.
Osiris statue
(click on image of statue facing to the right)
In my work on celestial and terrestrial associations to the pyramid, I identified Sirius in Precession as being the responsible party for one of the plans for the pyramid, where Sirius is represented by the floor of the middle chamber, Canopus in the subterranean chamber, and the winter solstice sun just above the top part of the Grand Gallery where the muon scan project has identified a void to exist. The celestial scene is thus the same as the image above. My alignment of scene to pyramid occurs atop the 20th course of blocks of the pyramid which passes through the feature above the pyramid’s entrance. That feature shows two mounds connected by a valley, and the top of the 20th course is right at the base of that valley. This is the horizon through the pyramid, and aligns to the horizon of the celestial scene as viewed from the pyramid’s location. Yes, folk don’t like that correlation nor the work presented, but I would like to include this topic toward that.
Orion...Osiris in its way...bridging what is below with what is above the horizon...depicting the very personification of Osiris as Lord of the Underworld. Just 1 hour before dawn, as the sun’s glow begins in the sky, Orion is resting on its side below the horizon with Cursa just above the horizon.
For this topic, I am wondering how folk feel about such imagery and associations.
Cheers