Khufu Pyramid 11/11/11 woo ceremonies cancelled

[Orphia Nay]

Oh, noes, the Great Pyramid will lose its strength!!!11!

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsC...ient-Egypt/Khufu-Pyramid-closed-tomorrow.aspx

Following the brouhaha created among Egyptologists and public opinion towards the meditation ceremony intended to be held at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza, 11 November, ostensibly to save the earth, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has closed the Khufu Pyramid tomorrow.

Aly El-Asfar, head of the Giza Plateau in the SCA, told Ahram Online that the Great Pyramid of Khufu will be closed tomorrow, thereby cancelling 19 private visits scheduled and approved a year ago as well as the controversial meditation ceremony itself.

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People from all over the world were due to hold a "ceremony of love" to strengthen the power of the pyramid on the day 11-11-2011, to save the earth from cosmic threats. According to the programme published by the polish foundation DAR SWATOWIDA, which was sponsoring the event, a crystal pyramid would be installed inside Khufu’s sarcophagus for 24 hours in order to harness the energy of all sacred sites around the world and create a shield between the earth and cosmic forces. They believe the world will end on 12/12/2012.

Some newspapers and websites as well as Egyptologists said that among the meditators were 1200 Jews who wanted to put a symbol of the Star of David on top of the Great Pyramid in order to confirm that they are the real builders of it, not the ancient Egyptians.

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[UnrepentantSinner]

I never thought I'd support something the Muslim Brotherhood might have done, but alas...

 

[Muldur]

More of the usual BS from the SCA.

It isn't even Khufu's pyramid. It was built much earlier (as was the Sphinx, but that's another controversy).

The two evidentiary underpinnings of the Khufu attribution have both since been rebutted.

The first being Herotodus' account. Herotodus was well known for being loose with his facts, and has been labeled the "Father of Lies", even by his contemporaries (sources numerous).

The second being the Vyes "discovery" of a cartouche purporting to ascribe interior building blocks to Khufu.

Samuel Birch, a hieroglyph expert of the British Museum, was among the first to analyze the air chamber paintings, and noted a number of peculiarities among them which remain unresolved to this day. These "peculiarities" represent serious mistakes on the part of the forger. Birch noted, for example, that many of the daubings were not hieroglyphic but hieratic. Now hieratic was a form of written shorthand first developed during the Middle Kingdom, or at least a thousand years after the Fourth Dynasty. In one location, directly after a royal cartouche, the title is given, "Mighty in Upper and Lower Egypt," in a form that made its first appearance during the Saitic period of the 6th century B.C., a full 2,000 years after Khufu’s reign.

In another place, the hieroglyph symbol for "good, gracious" was used as the number "18," a usage found nowhere else in the entire body of Egyptian literature. In fact, Birch and later Egyptologists such as Carl Richard Lepsius and Sir Flinders Petrie were disturbed at the number of exceptions of usage in the air space chamber, inscriptions found by Col. Howard-Vyse that have absolutely no parallel throughout 4,000 years of hieroglyphic writing.

In perhaps the most blatant example of forgery, in Col. Howard-Vyse’s chambers one finds great confusion concerning the appearance of the name Khufu. At the time these chambers were being opened, the Pharaoh’s cartouche had not yet been fully revealed from other excavations, and there were several possibilities to choose from. As a result, a number of crude hybrid forms appear throughout the air chambers, such as "Khnem-Khuf," "Souphis," "Saufou," etc. The problem with the first example, "Khnem-Khuf," is that we know today that it signifies "brother of Khufu" and refers to Khafre, Khufu’s eventual successor. For years, this appearance of a second king’s name has not been explained, and as Gaston Maspero observed in The Dawn of Civilization: "The existence of the two cartouches of Khufu and Khnem-Khufu on the same monument has caused much embarrassment to Egyptologists."

Adding to this further is the fact that, where the right hieroglyph name for Khufu does appear, it is spelled wrong. The hieroglyph sources available to Col. Howard-Vyse in 1837, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson’s Material Hieroglyphia, and Leon de Laborde’s Voyage de l’Arabee Petree, incorrectly depicted the first symbol of Khufu’s name as an open circle with a dot in the middle—the sign of Ra, the sun god—instead of a solid disk, which is the phonetic sound kh. Col. Howard-Vyse made the fatal error of copying this mistake in the uppermost of the air space chambers, so that, when strictly translated, the name given is Raufu, and not Khufu. Again, nowhere else in all of Egyptian literature, except in the air space chamber inscriptions, is this aberrant spelling for Khufu found.

http://atlantisrising.com/backissues/issue8/ar8pyramids.html

 

[Wildy]

It isn't even Khufu's pyramid. It was built much earlier (as was the Sphinx, but that's another controversy).

What evidence do you have for this claim? And considering that there are earlier pyramids (such as the Red Pyramid) how do they fit with your claim?

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Atlantisrising? Oh brother...

Of course there are hundreds of other pieces of evidence for the construction like most of the plateau between the pyramids and the Nile... including references to the workers and which gang they belonged to that indicate it is Khufu's pyramid.