THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 21 The Osiris myth is nothing other than the metaphorical glorification of the Great Pyramid's weighted impactor's operation

Summary: today, the master piece of an internal combustion engine is the piston that endlessly moves up and down inside the cylinder, compressing both air and fuel at the same time before ignition, and when you think it through, what ancient Egyptians realized in the Great Pyramid and its central wooden Djed caisson, isn’t that far from this very modern demonstration of science and technology. What Egyptians have done 4,500 years ago is outstanding, and not only because egyptologists are depicting very simple people, with a very strong lack of intelligence and sophistication in many ways. So yes, what egyptologists are saying about ancient Egypt, is completely incorrect and wrong, so wrong that you can even say they almost simply didn’t understand anything but insignificant things.

Imagine the piston of an engine moving up and down in the cylinder, and replace the piston with the weighted impactor and the cylinder with the central wooden Djed caisson; now make the engine running and you have the piston that pressurizes both air and fuel; now make the weighted impactor running and it pressurizes both air and water. In some ways, ancient Egyptians invented the first motor of human history. But it wasn’t a motor to put in a car: it was a motor, powered by human force, that allowed these amazing civilization to produce cold, flash-evaporative cold. And the master piece of this Egyptian motor, was the composite and weighted impactor, but you can call it a piston as well.

Additionally to this extraordinary technological prowess that allowed Egyptian engineers to cool the Queen's chamber down probably to a temperature very close to zero degrees Celsius, or even below zero thanks to the pressurization created by the central wooden Djed caisson (resulting in a non adiabatic evaporative cooling) and the probable use of salt, which, having been used to limit the deposit of scale as much as possible, also had the effect of antifreeze, Egyptians also glorified everything they could about it by creating more than 2,000 gods and goddesses who would interact in the most captivating literary work ever produced: Egyptian myths only are about how everything about their scientific and technological accomplishments, how they did it and how everything worked together; and because the chore of this technological era was that motor, it has been glorified into the chore of what we call today the Egyptian religion: the Osiris myth. What we'll see here, is that the great god Osiris is noting but the weight of the composite impactor, and that if it was him Osiris, who at some point gave to Ra all his energy back, it only is because Ra is the other part of the composite impactor: the wooden vessel for the Osiris weight, in other words some kind of boat, some kind of barque. This is what the so-called 'barque of Ra' is all about.

[internal combustion engine]: https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-middle-school-physical-science-flexbook-2.0/section/15.12/primary/lesson/internal-combustion-engines-ms-ps/

[the solar barque, with falcon-headed Ra and Khepri represented as a beetle scarab]: scene from Joseph Smith Hypocephalus, by HarJIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_barque#/media/File:Khepri_Re_Hypocephalus_Scene.svg

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing the central wooden Djed caisson that runned in both the Grand Gallery and the inclined well to pressurize first air before it could pressurize the water of the well. In the Osiris myth, Osiris is first tricked inside a 'wooden coffin' that 'perfectly fits his body', then he is thrown into the water of the Nile river, and when Osiris and his coffin get back to the bank of the river, they both get imprisoned inside the trunk of a hollow tree; really what a bummer! Only then Isis comes into play and gets Osiris and his wooden coffin out of the water and out of the trunk of the tree. It certainly is a cute though wacky story (in some ways), but more importantly it only is the way Egyptians reinterpreted the whole operation of the composite weighted impactor of the Great Pyramid which gave life to the Pyramid by pressurizing both air and water inside the 'central wooden Djed caisson', that run all the way from the top of the Grand Gallery to the very bottom of the inclined well.

21.01  The apparent weird and wacky Osiris myth: the real meaning of Isis and Osiris

The most important and outstanding part of The Pyramids of the Cold is not that the Great Pyramid of Egypt has never been intended to be the tomb of pharaoh Khufu (that explains why there isn’t any kind of decoration anywhere, no painting, no text, not even the cartouche of Khufu and particularly not on the so-called 'sarcophagus' of the king), nor it is the fact that this structure had only been built to create flash-evaporative cold in the so-called horizontal passage that actually presents the same slope as the one of the Roman aqueducts, clearly because some liquid water didn't evaporate and needed to be redirected towards the Queen's chamber, but it really is that Egyptians used all their scientific knowledge and technological prowess to create a fantastic set of glorifying gods, goddesses and myths so that they could gain political profit and legitimize their rule over Egypt.

The big question I’m still unable to answer today, is how all this was perceived by the people: were they aware that everything about their religion was only metaphorical, and if they were, did they understood them? Did they know that Osiris was only the glorifying vision of the impactor’s weight of  the Great Pyramid and that Isis was all about the two ropes endlessly hauling back the impactor from the waters of the inclined well to the top of the Grand Gallery?

Personally, I think they did know everything and that what really happened was pretty similar to what is happening right now when we are in some ways also 'worshiping' Hollywood actors in every single film where they appear.

“The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris's murderer, his brother Set, usurps his throne. Meanwhile, Osiris's wife Isis restores her husband's body, allowing him to posthumously conceive their son, Horus.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing the weighted composite impactor inside the central wooden Djed caisson that run both inside the Gallery and the inclined well.

21.02  Probably the most comprehensible example of the glorifying process through which Egyptians have transformed their technological prowess is the Isis and Osiris myth (the resurrection of Osiris)

The Osiris myth is certainly the most documented Egyptian myth and is extremely rich in weird and wacky events and details. But again, once you’ve understood that the myth is about the operation of the Grand Gallery, and you’ve understood, roughly how it could have been operated, then the myth itself can be very easily deciphered, summarized and used to transform the 'roughly understood' thing into a 'very detailed description of' thing:

1 • Osiris gets tricked and imprisoned inside a wooden coffin which had been designed to exactly fit his exact dimensions, then Osiris is thrown into the water of the Nile river while he is still trapped inside the wooden coffin

2 • After being into water, Osiris’ coffin finally gets to shore but only to be tricked itself inside the hollow trunk of a gigantic tree, so this is the second time that Osiris gets trapped: first in a wooden caisson designed for his dimensions and able to float in water

3 • After having put both a resin (myrrh) and linen onto this very weird hollow tree, finally Isis gets Osiris out of the water (but the goddess also appears in some paintings as being physically part of the tree itself as shown on the above image).

Of course, no egyptologist will ever try to explain or comment why would goddess Isis bother to put myrrh resin or linen onto a tree; because let’s agree that this behavior isn’t really what one would expect from a goddess, right? What’s the point here? Why would anyone want to cover a tree with resin… and then recover everything with linen? We'll see in a next chapter that the so-called 'Djed pillar' is nothing but the glorifying representation of the association of the central wooden Djed caisson with the hauling gantry which was operated by the six teammates of the Beetle.

[Germinating Osiris brick] at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. "Beginning in Dynasty 18, beds were made on which soil was molded into the shape of the god of regeneration and ruler of the dead, Osiris. Thickly sown with grain and kept moist until the grain sprouted and grew, then left to dry again, these figures were created as part of a ritual carried out in association with the Osirian Festival of Khoiak [...] and magically expressed the concept of life springing from death, symbolizing the resurrection of Osiris." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553820

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing the original meaning of deities like Isis and Osiris. If Osiris was trapped inside a wooden coffin that has been thrown into water, just before being trapped again inside the trunk of a hollow tree, it's only because the 'asleep' and 'lethargic' Osiris, is nothing other than a dead weight. If Isis was the One to save Osiris from the water where he has been thrown into, its because Isis is about the ropes which hauled Osiris, and the whole structure of the impactor to the top of the Grand Gallery.

21.03  Excerpt of the Isis and Osiris myth: the wooden coffin "made to fit Osiris exactly" because Osiris is nothing other than a dead weight, hence the god of the dead

“In the Osiris myth, Osiris was killed by Set by being tricked into a coffin made to fit Osiris exactly. Set then had the coffin with the now deceased Osiris flung into the Nile. The coffin was carried by the Nile to the ocean and on to the city of Byblos in Lebanon. It ran aground and a sacred tree took root and rapidly grew around the coffin, enclosing the coffin within its trunk. The king of the land, intrigued by the tree's quick growth, ordered the tree cut down and installed as a pillar in his palace, unaware that the tree contained Osiris's body.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed

21.04  Excerpt of the Isis and Osiris myth: Isis maneuvering herself to extract Osiris and the wooden coffin from the trunk of the hollow tree

“Meanwhile, Isis searched for Osiris aided by Anubis, and discovered Osiris's location in Byblos. Isis maneuvered herself into the favor of the king and queen and was granted a boon. She asked for the pillar in the palace hall, and upon being granted it, extracted the coffin from the pillar. She then consecrated the pillar, anointing it with myrrh and wrapping it in linen. This pillar came to be known as the pillar of djed.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed

Tree goddess Isis in Sennedjem's tomb at Luxor, represented “being physically part of” the Sycamore tree. The true nature of Isis is about ropes (hence the Tyet “knot of Isis” and the reference of how Isis “moored Osiris”) and the fact that these ropes were operating hidden inside a wooden caisson in the Grand Gallery. Photograph by Paul Smit/Mick Palarczyk: https://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Africa/Egypt-Luxor-tombs/i-jqJ9rQM/A

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid, showing the two parts of the central wooden Djed caisson: the aerial part in the Grand Gallery, and the flooded part in the inclined well.

21.05  Excerpt of the Isis and Osiris myth: the wooden 'pillar of djed' that enclosed Osiris while still tricked inside his wooden coffin

What really is very important here, is that the tree that grew around the coffin (with Osiris inside) will be known as the famous pillar of Djed. In short, the wooden Djed pillar is where is placed the wooden coffin where is laying Osiris.

“In the Osiris myth, Osiris was killed by Set by being tricked into a coffin made to fit Osiris exactly. Set then had the coffin with the now deceased Osiris flung into the Nile. The coffin was carried by the Nile to the ocean and on to the city of Byblos in Lebanon. It ran aground and a sacred tree took root and rapidly grew around the coffin, enclosing the coffin within its trunk. The king of the land, intrigued by the tree's quick growth, ordered the tree cut down and installed as a pillar in his palace, unaware that the tree contained Osiris's body.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed

“Meanwhile, Isis searched for Osiris aided by Anubis, and discovered Osiris's location in Byblos. Isis maneuvered herself into the favor of the king and queen and was granted a boon. She asked for the pillar in the palace hall, and upon being granted it, extracted the coffin from the pillar. She then consecrated the pillar, anointing it with myrrh and wrapping it in linen. This pillar came to be known as the pillar of djed.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed

Representation of Ptah in the tomb of Nefertari, QV66, Valley of the Queens. We'll see that Ptah precisely is the deification of the central wooden Djed caisson (and that the Djed pillar is the deification of Djed caisson plus the hauling Beetle). [illustration] “Nefertari is shown making an offering of linen to Ptah. He was the creator god of weaving and crafts. The linen which she offers is in the shape of the hieroglyph for clothing, "Menkhet" more of them stand on a table in front of her. The text above the table states: "Giving cloth to the Lord of Truth (= Ptah) on the sacred land".” Photograph by kairoinfo4u: https://www.flickr.com/photos/manna4u/33687815140

21.06  The Hollow tree hiding and protecting the Osiris coffin

It is not very clear in the Osiris myth that the tree in which Osiris’ coffin is enclosed, but may texts are indeed talking about Osiris being placed into a hollow tree (not just in Seth’s hollow wooden coffin):

“But Osiris was more than a spirit of the corn; he was also a tree-spirit, and this may perhaps have been his primitive character, since the worship of trees is naturally older in the history of religion than the worship of the cereals. The character of Osiris as a tree-spirit was represented very graphically in a ceremony described by Firmicus Maternus. A pine-tree having been cut down, the centre was hollowed out, and with the wood thus excavated an image of Osiris was made, which was then buried like a corpse in the hollow of the tree.”

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing that goddess Isis only is the glorification of the two central hauling ropes that were operated inside the central wooden Djed caisson. This is why very often, Isis is directly represented like she was part of a tree; she was indeed.

Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr) frame 3. The scene (vignettes) shows episodes in Hunefer's judgement. Osiris is on the right, in front of Isis and Nephthys. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA9901-3

21.07  About the Osiris weight and the Weighing of the Heart ceremony

If Osiris was supposed to preside over the weighing of the hearts of the deceased, it was because Osiris was merely the glorification of a weight, that of the impactor of the Great Pyramid.

“The Weighing of the Heart, also known as the Judgment of Osiris, was a significant event in ancient Egyptian mythology and beliefs regarding the afterlife.” https://egypt-museum.com/the-weighing-of-the-heart-court-of-osiris/

21.08  The Eye of Isis + the Eye of Nephthys = the two Eyes of the Djed pillar (because they are both inside the pillar)

I really love this little image here, because it beautifully exposes how ancient Egyptians used to play to create their metaphors, whether they are text metaphors of visual metaphors like this one. So, we have Isis and Nephthys represented on both sides of a personified Djed pillar, and when the two goddesses are drawn sideways, the Djed pillar is drawn in a frontal view.

Egyptologists never understood this ‘binary’ way of depicting people or gods, but this is actually so easy to understand, and we’ve already seen this ‘binary’ thing about Bes and Taweret: because all ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses are all the glorification of blocks of stone, pieces of wood, ropes and so on, Egyptians simply used the easiest encoding rule: if a deity is the glorification of something moving, they’ve represented it sideways, in movement; but if a deity was the glorification of something immobile, they’ve represented it in a frontal view.

• Here, the Djed pillar is just like Bes: immobile, and Isis and Nephthys are just like Taweret: designed to move. This is why the two goddesses are in this so characteristic posture; and it is not because they are ‘worshiping’ the Djed pillar: they simply are indicating they are all about pushing or hauling (remember that Isis is about the two ascending central ropes in the act of towing the impactor, and Nephthys about these two same ropes but descending the Gallery, another illustration of the active and inactive principle Egyptians were obviously obsessed with).

• But here, the artist decided to use another trick: Isis and Nephthys are represented outside the Djed pillar when they were actually inside because they are the two central ropes that were operated inside the central wooden Djed caisson. Many times I’ve described Egyptians as ‘facetious’, and there is another example here with the Eyes of the goddesses: because they were both operated inside the caisson (even if they are about the same two ropes), that same caisson is showing her two eyes. The two eyes of the Djed pillar are actually the one eye represented on Isis plus the one eye represented on Nephthys. This is the kind of intellectual gymnastic that you have to be prepared to look for in the ancient Egyptian religion; everything is metaphoric, everything is a play on words. The Eye of Isis and the Eye of Nephthys which are actually not on but inside the Djed pillar is the perfect illustration of the facetious methodology used by ancient Egyptians in their glorifying process.

Illustration from the papyrus of Padiamun: https://thetwistedrope.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/djed-101/

21.09  When Ra becomes merged with the Great 'inert', 'asleep' and 'lethargic' Osiris, but the same Osiris who at the same time gives all his 'force', 'ramming power' and 'energy' to Ra

The fact that Osiris is nothing but the glorification of what was the weight of the impactor, its ballast so to speak, is actually perfectly explaining one of his epithets: Osiris was called the 'Great inert'.

About Osiris' epithets:

"The egyptologist W. Budge counts no less than forty of them. The Egyptians, always obsessed by their desire to reject death by any means, use metaphors or more or less explicit circumlocution to speak of Osiris and his state. The various Books of the Dead teem with them. One notices that the God never dead, he is asleep, he is apathetic, he is lethargic, etc. Here are some examples: "the great inert", "the king of those who are not", "the Lord of the living", "the master of eternity", "the one who governs Ro-Setau", "the first of the westerners": www.osirisnet.net/dieux/osiris/e_osiris_01.htm

I need to point out that this 'inert', 'asleep' and 'lethargic' Osiris, is the exact same one than the Osiris who is giving all his force, all his power and all his "ramming" energy to Ra: "Ra at this time becomes merged with Osiris, the judge of the dead, and Osiris is seen as the “corpse” and Ra as the “soul” of the single deity Ra-Osiris."   https://www.worldhistory.org/Ra_(Egyptian_God)/

"Osiris' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god […] This aspect of Osiris was referred to as Banebdjedet. […] As Banebdjed, Osiris was given epithets such as Lord of the Sky and Life of the (sun god) Ra. Ba does not mean "soul" in the western sense, and has to do with power, reputation, force of character, especially in the case of a god. […] Since the ba was associated with power, and also happened to be a word for ram in Egyptian, Banebdjed was depicted as a ram, or as Ram-headed."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris (in the "Ram god" section)

The wooden base of the Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figure, 306–30 B.C. from the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New-York:  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553823

Figure of Osiris-Iah, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548421

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