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Re: Pyramid as Mensuration Standard
Whittet (Whittet@shore.net)
25 Jul 1995 14:29:29 GMT
In article <3v1cnv$ji8@cyber1.servtech.com>, timewise@cyber1.servtech.com says...
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>Whittet@shore.net (Whittet) writes:
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>>In article <3up9le$er2@turtle.mrj.com>, jotten@mrj.com says...
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>>>In article <3umqv3$88o@shore.shore.net>, Whittet@shore.net (Whittet) writes:
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>>>> Because the Great Pyramid is the only one actually constructed as a standa
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>>>> of mensuration. The same proportions are not found on other pyramids.
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>>>> Steve
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>>>I may have missed something earlier, but what is it that shows or mentions
>>>that the Great Pyramid was constructed as a "standard of mensuration?"
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>>A couple of other buildings mentioned as standards of measure are the temples
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>>Delphi and Dodona, both of which have geodetic navels or omphalos consisting
>of
>>an egg shaped stone covered with a net and flanked by pigeons which symbolise
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>>the intersection of lines of atitude and longitude as in the observatory at
>>Greenwich.
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> Hmm... maybe I'm missing something. I can see how the egg shaped thing
>might tie into mensuration, but what does that have to do with the
>measurements? Did the ancient Egyption women use the pyramids to time there
>menstural cycles? Sometimes you people seem to be grabbing for straws with
>you're theories.
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>Tim "Tut Tut" Roy
The symbol of the omphalos is found in both Egypt and Greece in the same form
and is used to indicate a geodetic node; ie the start of a measurement. The
placement of the net over the oblate spheroid indicates lines of latitude and
longitude. The carrier pigeons were used to measure distances "as the crow flies"
Steve
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