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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Chapter 49

The Power of the Thing

On a scale of 1:43,200 the Great Pyramid serves as a model, and map-
projection, of the northern hemisphere of the earth. What absolutely
excludes the possibility that this could be a coincidence is the fact that
the scale involved is keyed in numerically to the rate of precession of the
equinoxes—one of earth’s most characteristic planetary mechanisms. It is
therefore clear that we are confronted here by the manifestation of a
deliberate planning decision: one intended to be recognizable as such by
any culture which had acquired (a) an accurate knowledge of the
dimensions of the earth and (b) an accurate knowledge of the rate of
precessional motion.
Thanks to the work of Robert Bauval, we can now be certain that
another deliberate planning decision was implemented in the Great
Pyramid (which—it is increasingly apparent—must be understood as a
device designed to fulfill many different functions). In this case the plan
was a truly ambitious one involving the Second and Third Pyramids as
well, but it bears the fingerprints of the same ancient architects and
builders who conceived of the Great Pyramid as a scale model of the
earth. Their hallmark seems to have been precession—perhaps because
they liked its mathematical regularity and predictability—and they used
precession to devise a plan which could be understood properly only by a
scientifically advanced culture.
Ours is such a culture, and Robert Bauval is the first to have worked out
the basic parameters of the plan—a discovery for which he has received
public acclaim and will in due course, get the scientific recognition he
deserves. Belgian by nationality, born and brought up in Alexandria, he
1
is tall, lean, clean-shaven, forty-something, and going a little thin on top.
His most notable feature is a stubborn lower jaw which characterizes his
tenacious, inquiring personality; he speaks with a hybrid French-Egyptian-
English accent and is decidedly oriental in manner. He has a first-class
mind and is always restlessly accumulating and analysing new data
relevant to his interests, finding new ways to look at old problems. In the
process, entirely by accident, he has succeeded in transforming himself
into a kind of magician of esoteric knowledge.

1 Robert Bauval’s The Orion Mystery (Heinemann, London; Crown, New York; Doubleday,
Canada; List, Germany; Planeta, Spain; Pygmalion, France, etc.) was an international
bestseller when it was published in 1994. Egyptologists closed ranks against its
implications, which they refused to discuss, but many distinguished astronomers hailed
Bauval’s findings as a breakthrough.

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