THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 20 The two Gantenbrink's doors and the water supply issue of the operating Great Pyramid

In summary: the question of the water supply of the operating Great Pyramid is one of the most exiting problems to resolve, and there is one particular oddity about the Great Pyramid’ structure that is most probably giving us a fundamental clue; and that clue comes from what is known as the Gantenbrink’s doors. Today, these two doors are at the end of the two shafts of the Queen’s chamber and they simply lead nowhere; but that is today, because these doors were nothing but real doors, opening to the exterior of the pyramid, a very long time ago, when the elevation of the pyramid wasn’t complete and when it was in operation for flash-evaporative cooling of a Solvay manufacturing of 100% pure sodium carbonate, also called natron by ancient Egyptians, the salt used for the mummification  process of pharaohs.

These Gantenbrink’s doors are one of the most important piece of information we have about the Great Pyramid, because they allow us to reconstruct more or less the exact shape of the operating Pyramid: it was a simple mastaba with a flat roof; and that flat roof could be another clue for another exiting question about the Pyramid’s operation: did ancient Egyptians used water from the Nile river or rainwater instead? Because the fact is that the flat roof would have been perfect for rainwater harvesting, coupled with a water reservoir; and what better reservoir than what is known today as the King’s chamber?

Gantenbrink's doors: https://www.pyramidofman.com/shafts/

Diagram of the operating Great Pyramid of Egypt for flash-evaporative cold production (hypothetically for chemical manufacturing cooling of pure sodium carbonate 'natron', the salt used for the mummification of pharaohs). When in operation, the elevation of the Great Pyramid was not finished, and it is only after the shutdown procedure and the draining of the inclined well, that the three granite plugs finally got close to one another, like they are today.

20.01  Every pyramid ancient Egyptians have ever built was first a simple mastaba with a flat roof

This problem of the water supply of the Great Pyramid is one of the most important of all to my eyes. Did Egyptians need to get water from the Nile river, or did they simply used rainwater? Well, maybe the Gantenbrink’s doors are giving us the beginning of an answer. Apparently, egyptologists are somewhat puzzled by these so-called ‘doors’, because they simply open to nothing! There is nothing behind these two doors. So, why the hell Egyptians would have wanted to have these doors, right inside the structure of the Pyramid?

And the answer is so easy: they simply didn’t! To understand these Gantenbrink’s doors, you only have to go back in time, and imagine the ‘deconstruction’ of the Great Pyramid, layer after layer until these two doors finally appear; and when you can finally see them, what you have left of the Pyramid, is the operating Great Pyramid; or should I say, the operating Great Mastaba.

That is one of the most striking discovery of this study: when in operation, the Great Pyramid of Giza was just another mastaba, just like many other mastaba Egyptians had built before starting to build the great pyramids. But what you should never forget, is that every single pyramid was first a simple mastaba with a flat roof, opening shafts to that roof, and most certainly doors on that flat roof as well. In short, ancient Egyptians never stopped building mastaba structures; it’s just that at some point, they covered the mastaba with a pointing top to create a pyramid.

Structure of a mastaba, by Oesermaatra0069: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastaba#/media/Fichier:Mastaba_schematics.svg

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Giza, showing the operational flat roof designed for rainwater harvesting. The exact elevation of the two parts of the rooftop are determined by the two Gantenbrink's doors.

20.02  Was the Great Pyramid of Giza supplied with water from the Nile river or from rainwater harvesting?

Of course, the first thought that comes right away is that Egyptians simply used water from the Nile river, which was like everyone knows coming just at the feet of the Great Pyramid. But there are two major problems:

1 • you would need extra labor to get the water from the Nile to the flat roof, or to the biosand filter ‘sarcophagus’ depending on if you consider the King’s chamber as a water tank or not

2 • you would face the problem of the quality of the water: most certainly the Nile river would have been rich in both germs and particles

So, do we have to abandon the idea that the Pyramid was powered up by water from the Nile river? I’m afraid so, because we’ve just found out the Great Pyramid wasn’t a pyramid when operating, but a mastaba with a flat roof.

[illustration of rainwater harvesting] “Essay on Rain Water Harvesting”, by Kunika Khuble: https://www.educba.com/essay-on-rain-water-harvesting/

Diagram of the Great Pyramid of Giza in operation, showing the flat roof used for rainwater harvesting.

20.03 The flat roof of the operating Great Pyramid would have been perfect for rainwater harvesting

What are the chances Egyptians didn’t use this flat roof to simply harvest rainwater? Well, I think these chances are very low, and that they did harvest rainwater. Probably the King’s chamber is another clue that they did use rainwater; because if they did use water from the Nile, there probably wouldn’t be no need of a water tank that big, because they could have get water from the Nile whenever they wanted.

On the other hand, you cannot get rainwater whenever you want; so when it does rain, you need the biggest water reservoir you can get to power up the Pyramid for as long as possible.

20.04 The King’s chamber was the storage tank of a rainwater harvesting system

In this study, I’ve already had the opportunity to talk about how facetious ancient Egyptians were additionally to the fact they were incredible scientists and engineers. Here, there is very little doubt left about the function of the so-called ‘King’s chamber’; we’ve already discussed the fact the idea that this chamber was designed to be the burial chamber of a pharaoh, because of the total absence of any kind of text, relief, hieroglyph, painting or even the cartouche of Khufu. If any one really believe it was a burial chamber, god I don’t know what to say; just maybe it would be nice and constructive if people started to think by themselves and stop believe in any kind of ideology.

If you really think that the most important human being, equaled to a god would have accepted to be buried literally anonymously inside any structure you can think of, I’m sorry but maybe you should rethink the problem calmly.

So, what could have been the real purpose of a gigantic ‘chamber’ made entirely of granite? Of course, now that we know that because of the Gantenbrink’s doors, the operating Great Pyramid had a flat roof, and that it needed a huge amount of water to work, the function of such a ‘chamber’ becomes crystal clear: the King’s chamber was the storage tank for rainwater harvesting. So, where is the facetious demonstration? Well, it comes from the so-called ‘sarcophagus’. Again, if you really think that a pharaoh of ancient Egypt would have had accepted to be buried inside a completely anonymous sarcophagus, with absolutely any kind of text, relief, hieroglyph, painting or even the cartouche of Khufu, I don’t know what to say anymore.

But we’ve already seen what was the real purpose and location of the operating biosand filter ‘sarcophagus’, so the fact that it had finally be united with its storage tank makes perfect sense. Of course, the main reason why the sarcophagus got in the chamber is because Egyptians didn’t want to let inside the pyramid the probably very sophisticated valve that was controlling the water supply of the biosand filter; and to access this valve, they first had to get the filter out of the way.

But I think they’ve also took a special interest into making things right and placing the filter properly, almost with some kind of respect inside the storage tank.

[illustration of the King's chamber] “Chamber and sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid of Gizah”, after Luigi Mayer: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/836382001

20.05 The cave of god of the Nile Hapi is the King’s chamber

There is a perfect illustration of the metaphoric use at play about god of the Nile Hapi and his cavers. Remember that the key here is that Hapi is the glorification of the water that was stored inside the King’s chamber of the Great Pyramid. You’re gonna say that if Hapi is about the waters of the Nile, why the hell would I think that it wasn’t water from the Nile but rainwater that was used in the Pyramid; and that is all the beauty that ancient Egyptians have created.

Today, the best writers are working in the movie industry, or television series industry, back in ancient Egypt, the same guys have worked for pharaohs to construct the entire transposition and glorification of what scientists and engineers had accomplished; and one of their central paradigm was to associate what happened inside the structure of the Great Pyramid as the whole country. What you have to imagine is the entire ‘trip’ that the water had to accomplished through the Pyramid, starting with the sky, because rainwater is coming from the sky, then being transported to the big storage tank that was the King’s chamber, then the biosand filter ‘sarcophagus’, then the Grand Gallery, the inclined well, the Bastet and Sekhmet check valve, the fog nozzle, the flash-evaporative cooling passage, the Queen’s chamber, and most probably back to the sky through the shaft(s) of the chamber.

This is only because of all that trip, that the water used in the Great Pyramid has been associated with the Nile, wandering all other Egypt; and the Great Pyramid itself, in this glorifying process has been associated with the whole country of Egypt.

And this is why, on the above illustration of god of the Nile Hapi, he is represented inside some kind of cavern (that is the storage tank), underneath layers and layers of big blocks of stone; and that is the King’s chamber underneath layers and layers of limestone blocks used to build the Great Pyramid.

[illustration of Hapi in his cave] “By far the most curious emblematic representation of the god occurs in the sacred chamber at Philae, where his mystic history is depicted, and his rites were anciently performed. From this the engraving on the following page is copied. The deity of the river is kneeling, and pouring a double stream from two vases held in his hands. The mystic serpent surrounds and protects him at the foot of his rocky abode. On the summit of these cliffs, stand a hawk and a vulture; it would not perhaps be possible more clearly and ingeniously to typify the river in its sacred and mundane character.” Image from page 496 of "Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library." (1862), by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14783944243/in/photostream/

The strange trajectory of the northern King's chamber' shaft of the Great Pyramid of Giza. [Original images thanks to the Bibliothèque nationale de France]. "Histoire de l'art égyptien d'après les monuments, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la domination romaine" 1858-1879, by Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879). © Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares: http://passerelles.bnf.fr/grand/pas_2457.htm

20.06  Hapi's cave and its two spring holes are about the King's chamber and its two shaft openings

One of the most interesting parts of the mythology about Hapi is how were created the waters of the Nile: ancient Egyptians believed that inside their paradise, the 'field of the blessed' in the underworld, was running a river which came from the heaven 'in a mysterious way' and was filling Hapi's cave passing through two spring holes.

Like everything else, it is a very cute story which only originates in the Great Pyramid's operation and in particular in the King's chamber itself. Because these two "subterranean channels" and two "spring holes" are simply about the northern and southern shafts of the chamber.

"...the Egyptians held of the origin of the Nile and the connection of its sources with the Egyptian paradise in the netherworld. According to these "the fields of the blessed" which is the Egyptian paradise, were encircled by  "a river" (itru) that went forth from heaven. In a mysterious way that river reached the surface of the earth, through two spring holes below the first cataract between Elephantine and Philae and emerged as the Nile. This idea is pictorially represented in a relief in a small island near Philae, at the first cataract. Under a mass of rocks, the god of the Nile, Haapi, protected by a serpent, is pouring out of two vases in his hands, symbolising the two sources of the Nile. Thus the Nile was merely the earthly prolongation of the heavenly "river" (itru) and the two spring-holes beneath the cataract only marked the place where it came out to the surface." (p. 165. "The Story of Paradise." Abraham S. Yahuda. The Accuracy of the Bible. London. William Heinemann. Ltd. 1934): http://www.bibleorigins.net/QwertyNileCavernSourceAswan.html

"This Nile in some mysterious way enters the earth and through subterranean channels eventually surfaces via two caverns or spring-holes near the last Nile cataract in the vicinity of Aswan (Greek Philae). The Nile then flows upon the earth's surface till it reaches the Mediterranean Sea where it magically rejoins the sky." http://www.bibleorigins.net/QwertyNileCavernSourceAswan.html

20.07  The northern (Hap-Meht) and southern (Hap-Reset) shafts of the King's chamber

Most probably these two northern and southern shafts are the origin of Hap-Reset (the god of the South Nile) and Hap-Meht (the god of the North Nile).

"...the Egyptians believed that the Nile rose in the First Cataract, the Qerti, or "Double Cavern," and the Nile of the South was to them that portion of the river which extended from Elephantine to a place some little distance north of the modern Asyut. The god of the South Nile has upon his head a cluster of lotus plants whilst he of the North Nile has a cluster of papyrus plants, the former is called HAP-RESET, and the latter HAP-MEHT. When the two forms of Hep or Hapi are indicated in a single figure, the god holds in his two hands the two plants, papyrys and lotus, or two vases, from which he was believed to pour out the two Niles...the source of the waters of the Nile-god was unknown." http://www.bibleorigins.net/QwertyNileCavernSourceAswan.html

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