The Pyramid Texts cover walls within the pyramids of King Unis (shown here) and other royals at the site of Saqqara.Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
Posted on 12/31/2023 11:55:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"[The king] Unis seizes the sky and splits its iron."
Inscribed in hieroglyphs in a 4,400-year-old pyramid, this sentence evidences that ancient Egyptians understood the extraterrestrial origin of iron-rich meteorites—thousands of years before European scientists reached the same conclusion...
...the world's oldest-identified iron objects are small beads that come from a burial in Gerzeh, a roughly 5,300-year-old village in northern Egypt. Other pre-Iron Age iron objects have been found in Egypt, including an amulet in the 4,000-year-old tomb of Queen Aashyet in Deir el-Bahari and a dagger blade in King Tutankhamun's tomb...
The earliest-known Egyptian references to iron in connection with stars, meteoroids and the sky come from the Pyramid Texts, a collection of inscriptions carved on the inner walls of pyramids that once housed the bodies of Fifth to Eighth Dynasty Egyptian kings and queens who ruled about 4,100-4,400 years ago...
The Pyramid Texts provide insights into the Egyptian understanding of the universe. The inscriptions present the sky as an iron bowl containing water, pieces of which can fall to Earth as meteorites or rain. But this scene is not easy to grasp from a superficial reading of the texts, especially in translation. It is encapsulated in metaphors and spread across several unconnected passages...
In the Pyramid Texts, the word for iron is written with a hieroglyph that represents a hemispherical container of water—how the Egyptians perceived the sky. Iron and sky are interchangeable in the texts, which is why passages describe the dead sailing the iron and the king needing to break an iron barrier to reach the sky.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
The Pyramid Texts cover walls within the pyramids of King Unis (shown here) and other royals at the site of Saqqara.Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:
The aliens didn’t tell them?
Thats what I thought...while they were building the pyramids.
So the writing was on the wall after all, and “that’s the end of the mustard plaster!”
‘Face
;o]
Someone may have seen one hit the ground.
Yes.
The ancient Egyptians did not know how to make steel, but used some (it would be extremally expensive!, a lot more expensive than gold).
Chemical analysis showed that the Egyptian steel is a mixture of iron and nickel in proportion found in iron meteorites.
They probably had to communicate telepathically during their many centuries of deep freeze on their 12th Planet. /s
Linguistic and archaeological evidence:
1. Tutankhamen’s grave goods included an iron headrest (can’t bring myself to call it a pillow!) made from meteorite iron.
2. The Greek word for iron is ‘sideros’ or “from the stars.” Our word “sidereal” as in “sidereal hour angle,” the correction in celestial navigation that “makes the stars stand still” in taking sextant sightings, comes from that word. While Srednik is aware that ancient Egypt is not Greek, he would remind the thoughtful reader that the Hellenic people the Philistines were invited by the ancient Egyptians to settle on their northern borders (Philistia is “north” in Greek) to protect Egypt from nasty Canaanites who raided Egypt border areas from that direction.
3. The Pharoah’s of Egypt claimed their origins and destinations were celestial.
4. Putting these facts together, it would seem Tut’s retinue included a “gift from his celestial family” in his grave goods.
:^)
The Temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri
https://the-past.com/feature/the-temple-of-mentuhotep-ii-at-deir-el-bahri/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashayet
A new origin story for King Tut’s meteorite dagger
Astronomy | Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Marisa Sloan
Posted on 5/20/2022, 11:14:12 PM by SunkenCiv
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4065042/posts
Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt
Science Nordic | December 8, 2014
Jeanette Varberg, Flemming Kaul, Bernard Gratuze, tr by Michael de Laine
Posted on 12/9/2014, 8:22:24 PM by SunkenCiv
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3235556/posts
https://freerepublic.com/tag/meteoriticiron/index
One of *those* topics. Tut's actual date was in the so-called Iron Age. Also see my immediately prior posts for the links.
Is there some way to work out and determine how often meteorites landed in Egypt in those days? Many would just assume that the frequency is similar to what we experience in the last 100 years of recorded history.
My guess is that throughout human history there have been periods when meteorites reached the earth’s surface more often than at other periods.
Or they were easy to locate in a sand filled desert. Meteor searching is done on the north/south poles because its easier to locate.
I went in that pyramid, on my visit to Egypt in 1979. :)
How did they not get smoke all over the ceiling?
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