Page 476 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Valley and Mortuary Temples? What about the secrets now being teased,
one by one, from the astronomical alignments and dimensions and
concealed chambers of the pyramids?
If these, too, are readings from the metaphorical books of Thoth, it
would seem that the numbers of the ‘fully worthy’ are increasing, and
that new and even more startling revelations may soon be at hand ...
To return briefly and for the last time to our evolving scenario:
1 at the beginning of the twenty-first century of the Christian era, near
the cusp of the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius, civilization as
we know it is destroyed;

2 among the devastated survivors a few hundred or a few thousand
individuals band together to preserve and transmit the fruits of their
culture’s scientific knowledge into a distant and uncertain future;

3 these civilizers split into small groups and spread across the globe;

4 by and large they fail, and perish; nevertheless, in certain areas, some
do succeed in making a lasting cultural impression;

5 after thousands of years—and perhaps several false starts—a branch
of the original wisdom cult influences the emergence of a fully fledged
civilization ...
Of course the parallel for this last category is once again to be found in
Egypt. I would seriously propose as a hypothesis for further testing that a
scientific wisdom cult, made up of the survivors of a great, lost, maritime
civilization, could perhaps have established itself in the Nile Valley as
early as the fourteenth millennium BC. The cult would have been based at
Heliopolis, Giza and Abydos, and perhaps at other centres as well, and
would have initiated Egypt’s early agricultural revolution. Later, however,
beaten down by the huge floods and other disturbances of the earth
which took place in the eleventh millennium BC, the cult would have been
obliged to cut its losses and withdraw until the turmoil of the Ice Age was
over—never knowing whether its message would survive the subsequent
dark epochs.
Under such circumstances, the hypothesis suggests that a huge and
ambitious building project would have been one way cult members could
preserve and transmit scientific information into the future independently
of their physical survival. In other words, if the buildings were large
enough, capable of enduring through immense spans of time and
encoded through and through with the cult’s message, there would be
hope that the message would be decoded at some future date even if the
cult had by then long since ceased to exist.
The hypothesis proposes that this is what the enigmatic structures on
the Giza plateau are all about:

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