PLANETARY ALIGNMENT WITH THE GIZA PYRAMIDS

PLANETARY ALIGNMENT WITH THE GIZA PYRAMIDS, IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE IN 2,737 YEARS
This would an extra ordinary day happens only once every 2,737 years.. It doesn't matter if you believe that has any significance or not, but it'd be amazing scene.. don't miss the chance and be a witness to this spectacular view of the 3 pyramids (Khufu, Khafra's and Mankara'a) shines with the 3 planets (Mercury, Venus and Saturn).

Here is the full story, from where it's begun

The Perfect Alignment

The Giza Plateau designers had placed the three large pyramids in a most accurate location with reference to each other, and Orion’s belt was a significant contributing factor to the ancient’s cause.

The three pyramids of Giza are a perfect reproduction of the 3 stars of Orion’s belt:

• Like the pyramids, the three stars of Orion are not perfectly aligned, the smallest of them is slightly offset to the East.
• All three are slanted in a Southwesterly direction (Note the exact match in the animation).
• Their orientation to the Nile recreates Orion’s orientation to the Milky Way.
• The layout of the pyramids, and their relative sizes were a deliberate design plan, and not the result of three king’s enormous egos as been preached as dogma by the so-called Egyptologists.

The Giza/ Orion Link

The Giza Plateau in the year 10,450 BC. This is a depiction of how the Sphinx and the three Pyramids at Giza would align with Orion’s Belt in the year 10,450 BC. (below image)

The three Pyramids exactly simulate the stars Delta Orionis [Mintaka], Epsilon [Alnilam], and Zeta [Alnitak] that comprise the Orion Belt.

During this era, the Age of Leo, The Sphinx, which originally may have fully resembled a lion, would have been looking directly due east at it’s celestial counterpart as it rose at dawn of the vernal equinox in 10,450 BC.

At the same time, the Nile would have corresponded with the Milky Way.

 

Over the past 200 years great advances have been made in our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture. From knowing virtually nothing we have now reached a stage where we are able to translate directly from hieroglyphs.

But many mysteries remain largely unsolved:

• Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
• How did they achieve such amazing feats of architecture and engineering?
• When exactly were they built?

For many years classical Egyptologists maintained that the Pyramids were merely grandiose tombs to commemorate dead Pharaohs, built by slave labour and laid out in a relatively unstructured manner. However, recent work by Robert Bauval has shed an intriguing new light on the issue.

He realized that the relative sizes, and detailed positioning of, the Giza pyramids were a faithful mimicry of the stars forming the ’belt’ in the constellation of Orion. In addition, it transpired that the supposed ’air shafts’ in the pyramids actually pointed directly towards Orion, apparently with the aim of projecting the soul of the deceased king out towards the constellation.

These discoveries alone re-wrote our understanding of the motivations for building the pyramids and the state of technological advance of the ancient culture. But the plot continues to thicken with a robotic camera sent into the shafts recently enabling the discovery of a door to a previously unknown secret chamber deep within the structure.

Rumors abound that imminent discoveries may even more radically change our perception of ancient civilization...

The Correlation between the Giza Pyramids and Orion's belt 

This is an aerial picture of the Memphite Necropolis Site at Giza, south-west of Cairo. Look carefully at the way the Pyramids are aligned.

At first glance they seem to be imperfectly positioned. Classical Egyptologists maintain that this was either a mistake or a result of the terrain in the Giza Plateau.

Compare this to the image of the Belt Stars of Orion and things become a little clearer. 

Far from being a mistake, the Pyramids are aligned almost exactly as the Belt Stars appear!

Egyptology and Egyptologists

Great advances have been made in the study of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the last two hundred years. In that time we have gone from having virtually no knowledge whatsoever, to being able to translate directly from the hieroglyphs on the walls of pyramids and temples with a high degree of accuracy.

This giant leap forward in knowledge was thanks to a very fortunate find by a group of Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers as they secured Egypt for the French in 1798 and 1799.

During the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries Rashid (the town known in the West as Rosetta) was an important port, lying at the mouth of the Nile, where the Rashid Tributary leaves for the Mediterranean Sea.

Napoleon knew well its significance in securing a port for the supply of his troops as they swept across Egypt and fought hard to win control.

Napoleon was a superb tactician -- he had no real desire to wrest Egypt from the Mamluk Turks for commercial reasons. He had only one intention as he pushed the Turks East, and that was to cut off the supply and trade route for the British to India.
A party of French troops found a black basalt slab, near to the town of Rashid in 1799, inscribed in three languages.

The slab was a tribute to the Egyptian King Ptolemy V, with the original hieroglyph, a more modern demotic script, and, the key to our knowledge of Ancient Egypt today, a Greek translation alongside carved in 196 BCE.

The French returned control of Egypt to the English, and the Rosetta Stone, as it had become known, was taken to London, where it can still be seen as a prize exhibit in the British Museum, in Bloomsbury.

On arriving in London, the Stone was studied intently by Thomas Young, a West-country doctor and Egyptologist. Young had studied at London, Edinburgh, Gottingen and Cambridge, qualifying as a physician in 1800.

From 1801 to 1803, Young was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, and it was here that much of his pioneering work on deciphering the Stone was done. Between 1822 and 1824, the French Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion took up a close study of the Stone, and founded modern scientific Egyptology.

These preliminary studies of the Stone allowed Egyptologists their first insight into the mind of the Ancient Egyptians. Things that were once hidden and meaningless began to become apparent, and this small seed of new knowledge soon allowed much more accurate translations of the previously attractive but ill understood hieroglyphics that adorned the walls of pyramids and tombs and temples all over Egypt. Many of the old theories were overturned and replaced by conclusions arrived at by scientific research.

Foremost among the "classical" Egyptologists is the late E. A. Wallis Budge, 1857-1934.

Budge was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, and author of many books that form the basis of our understanding of Ancient Egypt. In particular he is remembered for his work in translating the Book of the Dead, and several hieroglyphic dictionaries, and self-teaching courses. Budge also translated numerous texts directly from the walls of later Fourth and Fifth Dynasty tombs, and cast an unbiased eye over many of the myths of the Egyptian deities and their legends.
Much good work has been done over the last couple of centuries towards understanding something of Ancient

Egyptian culture. Some of the most impressive work done in recent years, however, has to be the study of the astronomical significance of the pyramids by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert.

The views expressed in the book and documentaries were initially scorned by the academic mainstream Egyptologists. However, as the evidence strengthens their case, more and more people are coming on board and the "old school" are looking increasingly isolated. 

The Importance of Astronomy
Astronomy is fundamental to Bauval’s Correlation Theory.

Over a cycle of 26 000 years the Earth wobbles slightly on its axis and this leads to an apparent change in the position of the stars. This phenomenon is known as Precession -- the stars precess one another in Declination, their relative position in the sky.

This is best described with the aid of the adjacent diagram (image right).

As the Earth wobbles the Pole Star that marks the approximate Celestial Pole changes. Polaris marks the spot now, but at the time of the Pyramids it was marked by Thuban in the constellation of Draconis. In 12 000 AD Vega in the constellation of Lyra will mark the Pole.

A further change in the stars’ actual position is caused by the expanding Universe.

Stars are not stationary in space -- they have what is termed Proper Motion. Some stars are moving towards Earth while others are moving away. Groups of related stars like the Belt Stars of Orion tend to move together through space.

The rate of change of a star’s position from the observer’s location is a function, among other things, of its distance. Stars that are very distant appear to move more slowly. This is the case with the Belt Stars which lie approximately 1400 light years from Earth.

Thus, over the centuries, they have changed in Declination dramatically, causing them to rise and set at widely differing times. They retain their characteristic shape, however, because of their distance.

It is vitally important to understand that the sky looked different at the time of the Pyramids. The overall shape of the Belt Stars has remained remarkably similar although many other parts of the sky have changed dramatically.

Thanks to sophisticated computer software it is possible to project the sky back in time, enabling Bauval to verify and build upon his theory.

 The Egyptian Star Religion
Classical Egyptologists believe that the Egyptians practiced a solar religion, centering on the worship of Ra. This cult of Ra, centered around Heliopolis, the City of the Sun, was no doubt important, but it seems as though it was an offshoot of a much more ancient stellar religion.

All the evidence that is now coming to light suggests that Ra was merely one of the instruments by which the King returned to the First Time, rather than his goal.

"O Shining One (Ra)! O Shining One! O Khepera! O Khepera! You are for the King and the King is for you; you live for the King and the King lives for you."

(Pyramid Texts Utterance 662)

"Go aboard this boat of Ra to which the gods desire to draw near, aboard which the gods desire to go, in which Ra rows to the horizon....... Raise yourself, O my father Osiris the King, for you are alive!"

(Pyramid Texts Utterance 667)

The application of astronomy to the study of Ancient Egypt shows that the stars were of the utmost importance as the destination of the King:

"O Great One of Atum (another attribute of Khepera, the creator), son of a great one of Atum, the King is a Star in the sky among the gods."

(Pyramid Texts Utterance 586A)

"O King, you are this great star, the companion of Orion, who traverses the sky with Orion, who navigates the Duat with Osiris; you ascend from the East of the sky, being renewed at your due season......."

(Pyramid Texts Utterance 466)

The King was very important because he was the link between the gods and men, and was accorded enormous respect in life and in death.

From the moment of his birth he was groomed and trained for his return to the First Time. All his life, every aspect of it, was associated with his journey. He was taught spells and incantations to secure a safe passage, many of which are collected in the Book of the Dead and the Pyramid Texts.

His sole aim in life was his successful return to the First Time, and the pyramids, far from being a memorial or commemorative tomb, were the starting point of this greatest of journeys. The geometry of the pyramids has been a source of confusion for many years, as was the seemingly imperfect way in which they were laid out on the Necropolis site.

The chain of command in Egypt was unbroken -- each King, though a living, breathing being, was a renewal of the covenant which the gods made with man. The dead King, though dead to this world, lived on in spirit as he made his way back to the beginning, to the First Time.

His son, the new Horus King, took over his place as surely as the dead King has taken his own, and ensured the continuation of the Great House, the Pr Aa. 

Ancient Egyptian Culture and Society
Although we look these days at everything in isolation, for the Ancient Egyptians this would have been unthinkable. What we now term as a holistic approach to life was normal for the Egyptians.

In fact, the holistic approach was very common in our own Western culture until the Industrial Revolution. At the end of the Eighteenth Century, life became fragmented into production and consumption, supply and demand. Many people whose life was on the land, and who were intimately acquainted with every aspect of life as a cohesive and living whole (hence holistic) were made redundant by the new machines.

The only work, and life, available to them meant going from the land to the towns and cities. Instead of producing to meet their own needs, and then either bartering or selling their surplus from a good year’s harvest, they were forced into wage slavery -- to total dependence upon those who controlled the means of production.

In Ancient Egyptian times there was no wage slavery, rather a communal approach to life, and a very stable society. Everyone had their place, their tasks, and co-operated with others to ensure survival, peace and prosperity. The Biblical notion of enforced slavery to the Pharaohs seems to be exaggerated, testified by the meteoric rise in status of the Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) and his clan.

Knowledge of the logistics of building a pyramid like those at the Memphite Necropolis at Giza put paid to the idea that they were built by ill-treated slave labour.

The craftsmanship is of the highest degree -- it is still a mystery to this day how the pyramids were built.

About Robert Bauval
The pyramids have long fascinated Robert Bauval.

He is Egyptian, born in Al-Iskandariyya (Alexandria) to Belgian parents, and has spent most of his life living and working in the Middle East. For many years he had pondered over the significance of Sah, the constellation of Orion, and its link to the pyramids. One night, while working in Saudi Arabia, he took his family and a friend’s family up into the sand dunes of the Arabian desert for a camping expedition.

Bauval knew that the seemingly inconsistent layout of the three Fourth Dynasty pyramids at Giza was no accident, and had applied his own engineer’s mind, and those of many friends to the problem. Most agreed that the alignment, though unusual, was no accident, given the precise mathematical knowledge that the Egyptians had.
His friend, a keen amateur astronomer, pointed out Orion, and mentioned, in passing, that Mintaka, the smaller more easterly of the stars making up Orion’s belt was offset slightly from the others. Immediately Bauval saw the answer - the three Belt Stars were aligned in exactly the same way as the three pyramids!

Bauval checked the alignment in 2450 BCE by precessing the three Belt Stars back, and found that, due to their close proximity in space, great distance from Earth, and negligible proper motion, they looked exactly the same then as they do today. Of course, they had changed in declination -- then they were just below the celestial equator, at about -1 degree declination.
The pyramids were a mirror image, the Earthly representation of the Belt of Orion, the destination of the dead King! The Egyptians were dualists -- everything they thought and believed was a duality. Everything had its counterpart, cause and effect, left and right, East and West, death and rebirth -- nothing was ever seen in isolation.

They had constructed at Giza an exact replica of the Duat destination of the King. Far from being a tomb, the pyramid was the starting point of the King’s journey back to the stars from whence he came, back to the First Time.

Bauval initially made use of the astronomy program Skyglobe 3,5 for the PC.

Though too inaccurate for serious work - it does not take proper motion, nutation, refraction, for example, into account - it was sufficient to clarify Bauval’s mind as to the value of his discovery. Skyglobe 3,5 will plot the Milky Way on its charts if requested, and doing so added further proof to Bauval’s theory.

Giza is West of the Nile - putting the plane of our galaxy into the equation showed that Orion is "West" of the Milky Way, in proportion to Giza and the Nile.

Who built the Egyptian pyramids?

I can remember standing in the desert near Cairo and gazing across the Sphinx to the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the most impressive structures on Earth, and counting myself extremely fortunate to be there. The pyramid carries some impressive statistics. It stands 450 feet tall (137mtrs) and consists of two million blocks of stone, weighing from the most common at 2.5 tons up to 50 tons. The weight of the pyramid is six million tons. The four corners are almost perfect right angles and align almost exactly to the four points of the compass. The sides slope at a perfect 52 degrees, or would do had not the smoothly polished limestone finishing blocks been removed and used in building works in Cairo. It is one one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. Impressive though the statistics are, they do not reveal the true magnificence of this wonderful construction. I have to admit that upon entering the pyramid and climbing up the narrow cramped access shaft to the upper burial chamber, which was surprisingly cool, I experienced an eerie feeling of stepping back into history, and a strong feeling of trespassing.
To have seen this pyramid when perfectly smooth and dazzlingly white in the desert sun must have been an incredible sight.

So impressive are the pyramids that it has caused many to wonder how they could possibly have been built some 4500 years ago. Some even go as far as to suggest that it is not possible for these structures to have been made by the labours of men, but were instead made by aliens.
Who built the pyramids, aliens or men?
The case for the Aliens:
The pyramids are so accurately aligned with the points of the compass that only aliens could have achieved this all those thousands of years ago. The angle of the slope of the sides is so precise only aliens could achieve this. The blocks are so heavy and the pyramid so tall only aliens could achieve this. In the period 2500 BC man did not have the tools or knowledge necessary to build the pyramids, so only aliens could have done it. How the aliens built the pyramids is not known, but they would have employed the use of advanced construction equipment.
The case for men:
Never underestimate the ingenuity of man. We are today so used to using machinery to carry out virtually all our major construction work that we sometimes forget that machinery, in terms of historical events, is a very new development, its only been around a couple of hundred years or so. Mankind managed very well without it for many thousands of years. We have long forgotten the techniques that were used in the building of the pyramids, but this doesn't mean that we are unable to work out how it was done.
In order to try and establish who built the pyramids we have to examine the evidence that we have. We have only the pyramids themselves, the excavation sites where the blocks were quarried from, and historical accounts.
The evidence:
Lets start with the excavation site. If like me, you have been there, you will know that it looks pretty much like any other quarry you might see today, except there is obviously no machinery. At the quarry face there are blocks cut into the rock but not yet cut away. There are rough hewn blocks scattered around ready for transporting and on-site finishing. The entire quarry shows obvious signs of systematic development of cutting blocks out from the face and transporting them from site. The rough hewn free standing blocks show the scars of repeated chisel blows where they were chiseled out of the rock face. There is nothing in the manner of these blocks that is anything other than old fashioned quarry work using a mallet and chisel. Nowhere is there any sign of advanced technology having been employed, just the opposite. The blocks were hewn out of the rock-face by manual labour, the signs are unmistakable. The chisels used were made of copper, the hardest metal then available, but even they were only good for about 100 blows before blunting, even though limestone is relatively soft and easy to work compared to hard rock such as granite. As the chisels were blunted they were exchanged for re-sharpened ones, and the process was repeated with a team of blacksmiths constantly re-sharpening and tempering the chisels.
How were the blocks transported to the pyramids? By man power. The vast majority of the blocks weighed in the region of 2.5 tons and were transported on wooden sledges. They could of course have chosen any size for the blocks, but this must have been the optimum size, any bigger would probably have slowed them down. A team of men with ropes could drag the sledge across the clay floor, and this could be eased with a little water tipped in front of the runners helping the sledge to slide easier. It is estimated that it may have taken 10 years just to build the ramp from the quarry to the pyramids. In this manner all the blocks could be transported to the site of the pyramid without presenting any insurmountable challenges. So far no alien technology required, it could all be done by well organised teams of men, and a great deal of manual labour. During the time of the annual flooding of the Nile the stone blocks could have been floated to the site of the pyramids on rafts, making the task a lot easier.
The work force was was not one of slaves , the Egyptians didn't need slaves. The Nile supplied a very fertile land where farming was relatively easy and food abundant. This civilisation had time on its hands, no wonder they were such great mathematicians, astronomers and architects. The work force was primarily made up of farmers, recruited nationwide for a period ranging from a few months to a few years, and they served their time for their king, much like serving National Service today in the armed forces. A total of 20,000 to 30,000 workers would have been needed for the task, ranging from unskilled hauliers, semi-skilled quarry men, skilled quarry men, masons who finished the blocks, men who placed the blocks, officials and caterers. A village was purpose built to house them all and they were well fed and cared for in return for their work. The remains of the village can still be seen today.
Now for making the pyramids themselves. About 2,550 B.C., King Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza. Some Egyptologists believe it took somewhere in the region of 80 years to construct the pyramid. Having man-hauled the blocks to the site of the pyramid the obvious problem now is how to stack them up. There are a number of ways this may have been achieved, all of which require a ramp, or a system of ramps, as the only method available to the ancient Egyptians was man-power, and they had that in abundance.
The actual method of ramps used is not known with any certainty, but it most likely started with a single ramp by which means the blocks could be hauled into position. The blocks were laid down in layers, each successive layer being a little smaller in area than the one below it to give the pyramid its shape. As the blocks are layed onto a level surface, the same height as the ramp, no lifting was required, only hauling of the sledges. Removing the blocks from the sledge may have involved no more than dragging the block off the sledge. The entire pyramid could have been built using this simple system without a single block actually having to be lifted off the ground! No alien technology required. Very smart people these Egyptians.

As each successive layer was laid the ramp would need be heightened, and lengthened so as not to be too steep. Eventually this method would reach a limit where the size and construction of the ramp would be nearly as complex as the pyramid. The easiest way around this problem is to curve the ramp around the pyramid as the pyramid increased in height.

Finally, all that remained was the placing of the top stone, followed by the placing and fitting of the smooth white blocks. As the facing stones were placed so the ramp could be removed as they worked their way back down. The pyramid required a certain amount of interior design and construction for the burial chambers, and this was no easy task. The blocks that protected the burial chamber were 50 ton blocks of granite. Even with the huge teams of men at their disposal and a system of ropes and overseers guiding them, it would have been a difficult and dangerous task. There are still marks visible on the blocks and in the interior of the pyramid that were used to guide the blocks into position. Difficult yes, impossible no.
It was men that built the pyramids, make no mistake. Do not underestimate the intelligence of the ancient Egyptians or the trained manpower that was at their disposal. It was a colossal effort of team work taking 80 years to complete.
How did they align the corners of the pyramid so accurately with the four points of the compass? This was the easy part. It just takes a curved wall facing more or less North as judged by the stars. Select a rising star on the Eastern horizon and mark a line on the top of the wall pointing to it. Mark another line on the wall when it is low on the Western horizon. Take the line straight down the wall , using a plumb line, and then extend it along the ground until it meets the other line. Bisect this angle and you now have a line pointing exactly due North.

There are any number of very simple methods that can then be employed to construct a right angle that will then align with the other points of the compass. After that its just a question of placing markers in the ground for the four corners of the pyramid. As I said, that part is easy, it does not require alien technology, just a little brain power.
How did they achieve such a perfect 52 degree angle of slope? Because they were clever! They were masters of angles, a skill they had acquired in part through astronomy, and also through a good knowledge of mathematics. Each mason that worked on finishing the outer blocks had a template with an angle of 52 degrees that he used to cut his block to fit. After that it was careful alignment of block to block as they placed them carefully on the inner blocks. It was literally done step by step.
Mystery solved, that's how it was done. Maybe not using that exact method, but something very like it. There is absolutely no need to suggest that it couldn't be done by man power, and certainly there is no need to go to the ridiculous lengths of suggesting it was done with the help of aliens. That idea is pure nonsense.
Why were the pyramids built? They were tombs for the king. The Egyptians had long observed a point in the sky around which all the stars appeared to rotate (the north celestial pole, today marked by the close proximity of the Pole Star) and believed the area to be an immortal place. The alignment of the pyramid to the compass points was to align it with the 'immortal place' in the sky, and the shape was believed to represent the rays of the Sun. The pyramid was in fact a device designed to transport the king to the immortal place so that he may live forever, as would all the workers that assisted in its construction.
N.B. The theory of how the pyramids were actually built is not my own pet theory, but one considered by experts in the field as to be the most likely. It is a known fact how the stones were carved out of the quarry. Graffiti inside the pyramid reveals that teams were used in competition with one another, with the best performers receiving 'bonuses' of extra beer or days off. The workers village is a known fact. The ramp from the quarry to the pyramid is a known fact. That the huge work force was recruited is a known historical fact. The labour force required and the time it would have taken has been very carefully calculated. The type of ramps used is open to question, but all are agreed that ramps were used, there is no other way it could have been done. And it was done - by men!

Each pyramids at Giza has a name; “Khufu’s Horizon”, Khafre is Great”, and “Menkaure is Divine.” As divine places, all the pyramids are believed to have had names, even the small ones, and there are over 100 pyramids scattered around Egypt. One of my favorites is “Djedefre’s Starry Sky.”
There are three main Pyramids here, which were built in the 4th Dynasty (circa 2550 B.C). The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built as tombs for Kings (and Queens), and it was the exclusive privilege to have a Pyramid tomb. However, this tradition only applied in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Today there are more than 93 Pyramids in Egypt; the most famous ones are those at Giza.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu:
The Great Pyramid of Khufu is by far the most famous Pyramid in Egypt, the biggest, tallest, and most intact. After its construction it became one of the “Seven Wonders Of The World”, and today, it is the only one of them remaining. For a period of 4300 years, the Pyramid was also the tallest building on earth, until the French built the Eiffel Tower in 1889 to take that accolade.

The Pyramid of Khafre:
Khafre’s Pyramid, or the 2nd Pyramid, is easily recognisable by the layers of its original casing stones that still remain near its summit and this, along with the fact that it actually stands on a higher part of the plateau, gives the impression that it is taller than the Great Pyramid. An optical illusion, as it is only 136m (446 ft) tall, with sides of 214.5m (704ft), a surface area of 11 acres and an angle of 53 degrees. It also has lost some of its original height through the years, once being 143.5m (471ft) tall.

The Pyramid of Menkaure:
Khafre’s son, Menkaure, built the smallest of the 3 main Pyramids on the Giza Plateau. This one was only a mere 65.5m (215ft) tall, nowadays 62m (203ft), with sides of only 105m (344ft) and an angle of 51.3 degrees. It is thought that this Pyramid was altered during its construction, and made a lot bigger than originally planned. The original, smaller Pyramid had a simple descending corridor and burial chamber, but when it was enlarged, a new corridor was built with 3 portcullises and a small panelled chamber. Later still, another burial chamber, along with a storeroom were added at a lower level. This Pyramid, like its 2 neighbours, has a north facing entrance.