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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

suggest that Egyptian civilization had roots going back almost 40,000
years,’ he mused, ‘like that strange report in Herodotus that talks about
the sun rising where it once set and setting where it once rose ...’
‘Which is also a precessional metaphor ...’
‘Yes. Precession again. Most peculiar the way it always keeps cropping
up ... At any rate, you’re right, they could have been marking the
beginning of the previous precessional cycle ...’
‘But do you think they were?’
‘No. I think 10,450 BC is the more likely date. It’s more within the range
of what we know about the evolution of homo sapiens. And although it
still leaves a lot of years to account for before the sudden emergence of
dynastic Egypt around 3000 BC, it isn’t too long a period ...’
‘Too long a period for what?’
‘It’s the answer to your question about the 8000-year gap between the
alignment of the site and the alignment of the shafts. Eight thousand
years is a very long time but it isn’t too long for a dedicated highly
motivated cult to have preserved and nurtured and faithfully passed on
the high-knowledge of the people who invented this place in 10,450 BC.’
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How high was the knowledge of those prehistoric inventors?
‘They knew their epochs,’ said Bauval, ‘and the clock that they used was
the natural clock of the stars. Their working language was precessional
astronomy and these monuments express that language in a very clear,
unambiguous, scientific manner. They were also highly skilled
surveyors—I mean the people who originally prepared the site and laid

14 Just as any great Christian cathedral, however modern (for example the twentieth-
century gothic cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco), expresses the thinking,
symbolism and iconography of the Judaeo-Christian ‘cult’ which has roots at least 4000
years old, it should not be impossible to imagine a cult enduring for 8000 years in
Ancient Egypt and thus linking the epoch of 10450 BC to 2,450 BC. The completion of
the pyramids at that time, like the completion of a cathedral today, would therefore have
resulted in structures that expressed extremely old ideas. Plentiful evidence exists
within Ancient Egyptian tradition which seems to attest to the existence and
preservation of such ancient ideas. For example, ‘King Nefer-hetep [XIIIth Dynasty] was a
loyal worshipper of Osiris and hearing that his Temple [at Abydos] was in ruins, and that
a new statue of the god was required, he went to the temple of Ra-Atum at Heliopolis,
and consulted the books in the library there, so that he might learn how to make a
statue of Osiris which should be like that which had existed in the beginning of the
world ...’ (Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, volume II, p. 14). Also Sacred Science;
pp. 103-4, explains that the construction of temples in the Ptolemaic and late periods of
Egyptian history continued to obey very ancient specifications: ‘All the plans always refer
to a divine book; thus the temple of Edfu was rebuilt under the Ptolemies according to
the book of foundation composed by Imhotep, a book descended from heaven to the
north of Memphis. The temple of Dendera followed a plan recorded in ancient writings
dating from the Companions of Horus.’

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