A few more reflections on the ideas I've been developing in my last two posts.
The French word for "melt" is
fondre, which connects us with foundries.
Read this:
He mentions the FOUNDERS of the pyramids, not the BUILDERS. Since when does one "found" a giant stone structure?
Did "found" mean "to pour cast stone"?
Were building "foundations" poured in the past?
Note as well that Greaves uses the Hegira date first. Why? It appears here that the new Dionysian count (=Denis Petau) was less authoritative at that time. No mention of Scaliger, who might have been a fictional character projected into the past (I read some of his funeral eulogies and they have that made-up feel).
Not to mention the weird geography in the third paragraph (the pyramids are "a quarter mile west of Aegypt"...huh?).
I suggested that the "statues" made in Egypt might be more than sculptures. Did "statue" once mean "cast
icon of a dead person including biomaterial"?
Check out the following passage from that 1646 Greaves book:
"Before the exact art of making statues was
found out, the Ancients erect[ed] Columnes"
I would say
invented or
developed, not "found out".
But think about it. Columns need to be sculpted into shape too. Anyone who can make a column can also make a statue, right? Sculpting a human figure is only quantitatively more difficult than sculpting a statue, not qualitatively. Actually, it's probably even easier since a good column has to be symmetrical whereas a human likeness does not. It makes no sense to consider them two separate technologies, as Greaves does, which suggests to me that "statues" are something else entirely for him.
(Or he may simply be referring to casting bronze statues.)
-> Remember that Gunnar Heinsohn shows that columns were originally hung with the body parts of sacrificial victims
Heinsohn thinks statues evolved to replace sacrificed corpses. What if the connection is even more direct than he believes, and the body parts were used to make the statues?
In a recent post, I shared the hypothesis of Tamansky that movable type printing was only invented around 1700, and all books printed using movable type (as opposed to woodblock printing) dated before then are either backdated forgeries or bowdlerized re-editions.
This allows me to possibly reconcile some of the the contradictions and inconsistencies in the hypothesis I am playing with. I suggested that the pyramids were built in the early 17th century, as evidenced by the 1608 construction engraving. If this were the case, John Greaves would certainly know that the pyramids were only decades old in 1646 and not millennia, and that they functioned as industrial sites of some sort. But he doesn't claim that. His version of their age and function is congruent with today's mainstream history, and relies to a large extent on Herodotus, Strabo, and other "ancient" chronicles. In fact, half of his book, if not more, is just citations. So for this hypothesis to work, we have to assume that Greaves was either engaging in history-lengthening propaganda himself, or that his book was falsified and backdated.
The Tamansky hypothesis rescues us here. It goes something like this:
- At some unknown point after 1700, the pyramid complex no longer works. Chemical production and electricity are protected trade secrets.
- The decision is made to send it back thousands of years into the past, perhaps to keep the tech under wraps without having to demolish the plants.
- The book attributed to John Greaves is either rewritten or completely forged from scratch. The little hints I've highlighted ("durable as marble", "pyramids were founded", "Found out the art of statues") tentatively suggest it was mostly rewritten.
- Recycled material from Herodotus, Strabo, etc. is used to pad out the book and pass the chemical plants off as "granaries of Joseph" (smaller Nubian pyramids).
- The fact that Greaves is an Englishman writing in English suggests that this phase of the falsification was carried out by Britain. However, there is no record of any large-scale British involvement in Egypt in the 18th century.
So, this hypothesis has a lot of holes, but every hypothesis about the pyramids has holes, so...
Actually, thinking about it, the Tamansky hypothesis is not even strictly necessary. Why? Well, imagine the Giza complex is basically the 17th century version of a nuclear power plant. Presumably it would be strictly off-limits to unauthorized personnel. Well, you're going to need a cover story as a first layer of security against industrial espionage. Look at Area 51 today. It's huge. What happens there? No one knows, but somehow everyone thinks they have aliens there. That's effective cover. I can imagine the people who ran the plant seeding the story that the pyramids were ancient tombstones. Maybe Greaves & co. were paid to spread disinformation. He was from an elite family, after all. And of course if some unauthorized person sees them from the Nile and tries to get a closer look, they will be met at the perimeter by an armed guard and told to turn around. "Nothing to see here, just some old tombs. Now go away before I shoot you."
Lastly, I'd like to share the work of the Russian LiveJournal blogger Selenadia. I first encountered his/her work thanks to
@usselo . It's been a few years since I've read through it, but what I remember is that he/she argues that old sarcophagi were used to "brew" what he/she calls "frothy blood" using the remains of the "gods". This frothy blood was drunk ritually and had a possessing effect. Out there, but maybe it is precisely practices like this that the forgers were desperately trying to write out of history, perhaps not unreasonably so.
Here are links to Selenadia's blog as well as a couple of relevant posts from Usselo:
selenadia
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Evidence humans were created and traded as slaves, food, entertainment and material resources (IHASFEMR)
Post in thread 'Evidence humans were created and traded as slaves, food, entertainment and material resources (IHASFEMR)'
Evidence humans were created and traded as slaves, food, entertainment and material resources (IHASFEMR)