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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

precession of the equinoxes, and which have become embedded in
archaic myths all around the world. As the reader can confirm by glancing
back at Part V the basic numerals of the Pyramid/Earth ratio crop up
again and again in those myths, sometimes directly as 43,200 sometimes
as 432, as 4320, as 432,000, as 4,320,000, and so on.
What we appear to be confronted by are two remarkable propositions,
back-to-back, as though designed to reinforce one another. It is surely
remarkable enough that the Great Pyramid should be able to function as
an accurate scale-model of the northern hemisphere of planet earth. But
it is even more remarkable that the scale involved should incorporate
numbers relating precisely to one of the key planetary mechanisms of the
earth. This is the fixed and apparently eternal precession of its axis of
rotation around the pole of the ecliptic, a phenomenon which causes the
vernal point to migrate around the band of the zodiac at the rate of one
degree every 72 years, and 30 degrees (one complete zodiacal
constellation) every 2160 years. Precession through two zodiacal
constellations, or 60 degrees along the ecliptic, takes 4320 years.
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The constant repetition of these precessional numbers in ancient myths
could, perhaps, be a coincidence. Viewed in isolation, the appearance of
the precessional number 43,200 in the pyramid/earth ratio might also be
a coincidence (although the odds against this must be astronomical). But
when we find precessional numbers in both these very different media—
the ancient myths and the ancient monument—it really does strain
credulity to suppose that coincidence is all that is involved here.
Moreover, just as the Teutonic myth of Valhalla’s walls leads us to the
precessional number 432,000 by inviting us to calculate the warriors who
‘go to war with the Wolf (500 plus 40 multiplied by 800, as saw in
Chapter Thirty-three), so the Great Pyramid leads us to the precessional
number 43,200 by demonstrating through the pi relationship that it
might be a scale-model part of the earth and then by inviting us to
calculate that scale.

Matching fingerprints?

At El Minya our escort vehicles left us, though the plain-clothes soldier in
the front seat stayed with us until Cairo. We paused for a late lunch of
bread and felafel in a boisterous, noisy village, then motored north again.
Throughout all this, my thoughts remained focused on the Great
Pyramid. Obviously it was not an accident that so immense and
conspicuous a structure should occupy a key geographic and geodetic
location in a part of the world that appeared, bizarrely, to have been
conceived of and ‘geometrized’ as a rectangular, symbolic construct
exactly seven terrestrial degrees in length. But it was the pyramid’s other

13 See Part V.

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