We hold that the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only monument that preserves the science of the cosmic cycles of the Original Solar Race, the Primordial Mother Culture, and that it does not belong to the time of Khufu.
Archaeology attributes it to the pharaoh Khufu, of the Fourth Dynasty, around 2560 BC. We set out to test, with scientific archaeology and the other sciences, whether its origin is earlier.
The starting point is not a modern theory, but a text written more than 2,300 years ago: what the Egyptian priests of Sais told Solon about the destructions that, again and again, have erased the memory of mankind.
Around 360 BC, Plato wrote the Timaeus. In it, Critias tells a story his family had heard from Solon, the great lawgiver of Athens.
Early in the sixth century BC, Solon travelled to Egypt. In Sais, the city of the Nile Delta consecrated to the goddess Neith, he asked the priests about the most ancient times. Their answer is one of the most extraordinary testimonies Antiquity has left us.
21eIn Egypt, said Critias, in the Delta, at whose apex the stream of the Nile divides, there is a district called the Saitic. The chief city of that district is Sais, the home of King Amasis. Its people hold that the city was founded by a goddess whose name is Neith in Egyptian and, as they say, Athena in Greek. They are great friends of the Athenians and claim to be, in a certain way, their kin.
Solon said that on arriving there he was greatly honored, 22aand that when he questioned the priests most versed in such matters about antiquity, he found that neither he nor any other Greek knew, so to speak, anything at all about it. […]
22bThen one of the priests, a man of very great age, said to him:
“Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children […], for in your souls there is no belief that comes down from an ancient tradition […].
22cAnd the reason is this: many times and in many ways have men perished, and will perish; the greatest destructions by fire and water, and lesser ones by countless other causes.
What is also told among you, that once Phaethon, son of the Sun, yoked his father's chariot and, unable to drive it along his father's course, burned up everything on the earth and was himself struck dead by a thunderbolt, is told in the guise of a myth; 22dbut the truth is a deviation of the bodies that move in the heavens around the earth, and a destruction, at long intervals, of what is on the earth by a great fire […].
23aNow, of everything fine or great […] that has happened among you […] and that we know by hearsay, there is here, from of old, a written record in the temples, and it is preserved.
Among you, on the other hand […], each time you have just been provided with writing and all that cities need, after the customary span of years the stream from heaven sweeps down upon you again like a plague, 23band of you it leaves alive only the unlettered and the uncultured, so that you become young again, as from the beginning, knowing nothing of what happened in ancient times, either here or in your own land […].
To begin with, you remember only one deluge of the earth, though there were many before it, and you do not know that in your country was born the finest and noblest race that men have known […]. 23cBut this has been hidden from you because the survivors, for many generations, died without leaving a written voice.”
Plato · Timaeus, 21e–23cTranslated by the Pi Heritage Foundation from the Greek text (J. Burnet's edition). The numbers give the standard reference to the text.
In a few lines, the priest of Sais describes a complete system: mankind does not advance in a straight line, but through destructions that repeat themselves.
Men “have perished and will perish”. He speaks not of one catastrophe, but of many, past and future.
The greatest by fire and water; lesser ones by countless causes. The Hindu and Andean traditions also know greater and lesser cosmic cycles.
The myth of Phaethon has “the guise of a myth”, but the truth is a deviation of the bodies that move in the heavens.
Destruction comes “at long intervals”, “after the customary span of years”: it has a rhythm.
Only those who cannot write survive, and each people starts again “as from the beginning”.
In Egypt, ancient knowledge was kept in writing in the temples, protected from the catastrophes.
The priest teaches Solon to read a myth: Phaethon is not a fable, but the memory of a real celestial event. It is exactly the method of the Ars Memorativa, the ancient Art of Memory that guides this research, set out more than two thousand years ago.
In 1969, the historian of science Giorgio de Santillana, professor at MIT, and Hertha von Dechend held in Hamlet's Mill that the myths of the whole world preserve, in coded language, the knowledge of the precession of the equinoxes, and that this knowledge comes from a remote antiquity, long before the Egyptian Fourth Dynasty.
We hold that these cosmic cycles of planetary destruction were not merely a memory. The Primordial Mother Culture possessed a science that knew their rhythm, and the Great Pyramid is the monument that preserves it.
If every catastrophe erases written memory, the only way to pass knowledge on through the cosmic cycles is to engrave it in something that survives them all: a work of stone, exact in its measurements and orientation, able to withstand fire and water.
Plato attests destructions by fire and water that repeat themselves, with a celestial cause and at long intervals, and written records in the Egyptian temples.
He does not say that anyone could calculate or foresee them, nor does he mention the pyramids. That is our thesis, and we present it as such: something we set out to prove.
The mystery begins with the stone: the architecture of the Great Pyramid and its exact measurements. In them we will seek the proof of a knowledge that the time of Khufu did not possess.
| Measurement | Value | Royal cubits |
|---|---|---|
| Side of the base | 230.35 mPetrie · Cole: 230.36 m | 440 |
| Original height, above the plinth | 146.71 mPetrie | 280 |
| Plinth on the north face | 0.5236 mPérez-Sánchez Pla | 1 |
| Total height, with the plinth | 147.1 m | 281 |
| First course of the north casing | 1.495 mPetrie | — |
| Slope of the faces | 51° 52′ ± 2′Petrie | seked of 5½ palms |
| Deviation from true north | 3′ 43″Petrie · Cole: 3′ 06″ | — |
| Levelling of the base | about 15 mm over 230 mCole | — |
| Royal cubit | 52.37 cmPetrie, derived from the King's Chamber · Pérez-Sánchez Pla: 52.36 cm | 1 |
Sources: W. M. Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883); J. H. Cole, Determination of the Exact Size and Orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Survey of Egypt (1925); Miquel Pérez-Sánchez Pla, architect, School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), La Gran Pirámide, clave secreta del pasado (measurement of the plinth and of the royal cubit).
The slope. The builders set it with the seked, the Egyptian measure of inclination: 5½ palms of run for every cubit of rise, a cubit being 7 palms. It is the ratio of 14 in height to 11 in base, the same as 280 cubits of height to 220 of half-base, and it gives an angle of 51° 50′ 34″, one arcminute from what was measured.
Two famous relations arise from that slope: the perimeter of the base divided by twice the height gives 22/7, an approximation of π (pi), and the apothem divided by the half-base gives the golden ratio, φ (phi).
These relations show a work of extraordinary precision. Egyptology explains them by the chosen slope, which had already been used in the pyramid of Meidum.
We hold a different reading: the priests of the Egyptian temples, like those of Sais who spoke with Solon, did not invent that science, but inherited it from the Primordial Mother Culture and applied it first at Meidum and then at Giza. The same holds for the precession of the equinoxes and orientation by the stars. The Egyptians of the Fourth Dynasty would be its heirs, not its discoverers.
The precession of the equinoxes is the best example. It is a movement so slow, one degree every 72 years and a full cycle in about 25,770 years, that it demands centuries of precise observation and a very refined astronomical calculation. Greek science discovered it with Hipparchus, around 130 BC, and even then gave it a value of one degree per century, far from the real one. We hold that the Egyptian priests already knew it, as the Greeks did later, but that they did not discover it: their science could not reach that precision. They inherited it. We will prove it with the mathematical and astronomical calculations we will present later.
To prove it, we seek the evidence in other measurements: those that would preserve the size of the Earth, the precession of the equinoxes and the cosmic cycles of planetary destruction, knowledge that no one at that time could have obtained alone. We will test them against criteria set in advance.