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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

from its highest point at meridian transit (58° 11’ above the southern
horizon as viewed from Giza) it takes Al Nitak about 13,000 years to
descend to the low point, last registered in 10,450 BC, that is
immortalized in stone on the Giza plateau—i.e. 11° 08’. As another
13,000 years pass, the belt stars very slowly rise again until Al Nitak is
back at 58° 11’; then during the next 13,000 years they gradually fall
once more to 11° 08’. This cycle is eternal: 13,000 years up, 13,000 years
down, 13,000 years up, 13,000 years down, for ever.
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It’s the precise configuration for 10,450 BC that we see on the Giza plateau—as
though a master-architect came here in that epoch and decided to lay out a huge
map on the ground using a mixture of natural and artificial features. He used the
meridional course of the Nile Valley to depict the Milky Way, as it looked then. He
built the three pyramids to represent the three stars, exactly as they looked then.
And he put the three pyramids in exactly the same relationship to the Nile Valley
as the three stars then had to the Milky Way. It was a very clever, very ambitious,
very exact way to mark an epoch—to freeze a particular date into architecture if
you like ...
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The First Time

I found the implications of the Orion correlation complicated and eerie.
On the one hand, the Great Pyramid’s southern shafts ‘precessionally
anchored’ the monument to Al Nitak and Sirius in 2475-2400 BC, dates
which coincided comfortably with the epoch when Egyptologists said the
monument had been built.
On the other hand the disposition of all three of the pyramids in
relation to the Nile Valley eloquently signalled the much earlier date of
10,450 BC. This coincided with the controversial geological findings John
West and Robert Schoch had made at Giza, which suggested the presence
of a high civilization in Egypt in the eleventh millennium BC. Moreover,
the disposition of the pyramids had not been arrived at by any random or
accidental process but seemed to have been deliberately chosen because
it marked a precessionally significant event: the lowest point, the
beginning, the First Time in Orion’s 13,000-year ‘up’ cycle.
I knew that Bauval believed this astronomical event to have been linked
symbolically to the mythical First Time of Osiris—the time of the gods,
when civilization had supposedly been brought into the Nile Valley—and
that his reasoning for this derived from the mythology of Ancient Egypt
which directly associated Osiris with the Orion constellation (and Isis with
Sirius).
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Had the historical archetypes for Osiris and Isis actually come here in

Skyglobe 3.6
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10 Personal communications/interviews.
11 See Chapters Forty-two to Forty-four.

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