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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

out the orientations for the pyramids—because they worked to an
exacting geometry and because they knew how to align the base-
platforms, or whatever it was they built, perfectly to the cardinal points.’
‘Do you think they also knew that they were marking out the site of the
Great Pyramid on latitude 30° North?’
Bauval laughed: I’m certain they knew. I think they knew everything
about the shape of the earth. They knew their astronomy. They had a
good understanding of the solar system and of celestial mechanics. They
were also incredibly accurate and incredibly precise in everything they
did. So, all in all, I don’t think anything really happened here by chance—
at least not between 10,450 and 2450 BC. I get the feeling that everything
was planned, intended, carefully worked out ... Indeed I get the feeling
that they were fulfilling a long-term objective—some kind of purpose, if
you like, and that they brought this to fruition in the third millennium BC
...
‘In the form of the fully built pyramids which they then precessionally
anchored to Al Nitak and to Sirius at the time of completion?’
‘Yes. And also, I think, in the form of the Pyramid Texts. My guess is
that the Pyramid Texts are part of the puzzle.’
‘The software to the Pyramids’ hardware?’
‘Quite possibly. Why not? At any rate it’s certain that there’s a
connection. I think what it means is that if we’re going to decode the
pyramids properly then we’re going to have to use the Texts ...’
‘What’s your guess?’ I asked Bauval. ‘What do you think the purpose of
the pyramid builders really might have been?’
‘They didn’t do it because they wanted an eternal tomb,’ he replied
firmly. ‘In my view, they had no doubts at all that they would eternally
live. They did it—whoever did it—they have transmitted the power of their
ideas through something that is to all intents and purposes eternal. They
succeeded in creating a force that is functional in itself, provided you
understand it, and that force is the questions it challenges you to ask. My
guess is that they knew the human mind to perfection. They knew the
game of ritual ... Right? I’m serious. They knew what they were doing.
They knew that they could initiate people far ahead in the future into
their way of thinking even though they couldn’t be there themselves.
They knew that they could do this by creating an eternal machine, the
function of which was to generate questions.’
I suppose that I must have looked puzzled.
‘The machine is the pyramids!’ Bauval exclaimed, ‘the whole of the Giza
necropolis really. And look at us. What are we doing? We’re asking
questions. We’re standing out here, shivering, at an ungodly hour,
watching the sun come up, and we’re asking questions, lots and lots of
questions just as we’ve been programmed to do. We’re in the hands of
real magicians here, and real magicians know that with symbols—with the
right symbols, with the right questions—they can lead you into initiating

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