Posted on 03/03/2007 8:11:43 AM PST by aculeus
The mystery of the pyramid is: why is it placed on the dollar bill?
Jesus's tomb
Please. Everybody knows the thing is there to sharpen razor blades.
That Shaft is a baaad mutha...
Just another pyramid scheme.
Um, not to be inconvenient, but how could the shafts point to a particular star if the stars rise and set along with the sun, and rotate through the heavens with the seasons? A given shaft would only point to its sacred star for a brief moment every now and then.
The timing of that might be the important thing, as it is with Stonehenge.
I have always questioned why the Egyptians Mayans and other ancient cultures built huge stone structures in the first place. Was it because they new the earth was going to get hot as He*l from global positioning and these were shelters for the royalty to continue living on. The shafts were only good for air getting into the chambers.
What is the significance of the symbols on the back of the one-dollar bill? I'm particularly interested in the eye and the pyramid.
The eye and the pyramid shown on the reverse side of the one-dollar bill are in the Great Seal of the United States. The Great Seal was first used on the reverse of the one-dollar Federal Reserve note in 1935. The Department of State is the official keeper of the Seal. They believe that the most accurate explanation of a pyramid on the Great Seal is that it symbolizes strength and durability. The unfinished pyramid means that the United States will always grow, improve and build. In addition, the "All-Seeing Eye" located above the pyramid suggests the importance of divine guidance in favor of the American cause. The inscription ANNUIT COEPTIS translates as "He (God) has favored our undertakings," and refers to the many instances of Divine Providence during our Government's formation. In addition, the inscription NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM translates as "A new order of the ages," and signifies a new American era
Ding ding ding ding
We have a winner!
Khufu had it built around 2550 BCE.
He must have had a real good psychic priest in his employ.
My theory:
If you've ever been in the depths of a pyramid, then you'd know how bad the air can get. I think the workers in the chambers would have needed air and the small shafts acted as airvents, using the venturi effect, until they were no longer needed. When the work was completed, the architects had built in a mechanism which allowed the so-called "door" or 'blocking stone" to crash down into the shaft from above, sealing off the shaft.
It was the masons that did that.
Nah, the Bilderberg group. They were siphoning off the ocean water, and then released it in a tsunami.
"mortar and covered in salt crystals"
Perhaps this is the equivalent of using silica gel to absorb moisture.
After the burial, the little door at the inside opening was kept open by something propped underneath it and attached to a rope. Cloth wrapped bundles of salt were pushed up into the shaft and it was sealed at the outside opening. Since it was open at the tomb end of the shaft, the salt and cloth absorbed whatever moisture was left in the tomb.
After suffient time had passed and the priests felt that enough moisture had been removed from the inner chamber, they opened the outside opening, pulled the rope holding the prop from under the door at the tomb side of the shaft, effectively sealing the tomb. They then pulled out the cloth bundles filled with salt and sealed the outside opening. They needed the morter surface so it would be smooth and allow the cloth to be easily pulled, and to seal out any additional moisture from leaking in. The salt crystals were from any salt left behind, or salt which precipitated on the surface during the operation.
The alternative and Occam approved version would be that the the salt was just in the mortar and the crystals formed to the surface, like niter on old brick walls.
As explained in the book, The Giza Power Plant, the Great Pyramid was a large chemical reactor. Chemicals were poured down its shafts into a central chamber where the reaction took place.
More lies from the Illuminati
The shafts are not straight enough that a star or anything can be sighted through them.
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