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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

the First Time, twelve and a half thousand years ago? My research into
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Ice Age mythologies had persuaded me that certain ideas and memories
could linger in the human psyche for many millennia, transmitted from
generation to generation by oral tradition. I could therefore see no prima
facie reasons why the Osirian mythology, with its strange and anomalous
characteristics, should not have originated as far back as 10,450 BC.
However, it was the civilization of dynastic Egypt that had elevated
Osiris to the status of the high god of resurrection. That civilization was
one that had few known antecedents, and none at all recognizable in the
remote epoch of the eleventh millennium BC. If the Osirian mythology had
been transmitted across 8000 years, therefore, then what culture had
transmitted it? And had this culture also been responsible for both the
astronomical alignments proven to have been manifested by the
pyramids: 10,450 BC and 2450 BC?
These were among the questions I planned to put to Robert Bauval in
the shadow of the pyramids. Santha and I had arranged to meet him at
dawn, at the Mortuary Temple of Khafre, so that the three of us could
watch the sun come up over the Sphinx.

12 ‘The Egyptians ... believed that they were a divine nation, and that they were ruled by
kings who were themselves gods incarnate; their earliest kings, they asserted, were
actually gods, who did not disdain to live on earth, and to go about up and down
through it, and to mingle with men.’ The Gods of the Egyptians, volume I, p. 3.

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