THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 44 How the Egyptian pulley has been revisited in the Bible with Abraham, Sarah and Hagar

In summary: ancient Egyptians loved to associate things by three, and one of the most visible illustrations of this habit are the Triads; but egyptologists failed to understand them properly because they failed in understanding that Egyptian gods and goddesses only are glorifications of very real pieces of equipment. In this chapter, there is no Triad officially named, but the result is the same: the Egyptian pulleys used to redirect the ropes from the upper platform of the Grand Galley to the steep slope of the Gallery, were functioning exactly like Triads, by associating the inactive base cradle of the pulley, with the active pulley wheel and finally the rope. What we’re gonna see, is that if ancient Egyptians glorified their redirecting pulley in Geb and Nut (so, not a Triad), the ones who reinterpreted everything to create the Jewish religion, did use the Triad to glorify the Egyptian pulley. But the Bible gives even more details and the scripture doesn’t only describe the three operating parts of an Egyptian pulley, instead it is the entire redirecting shaft that is described in the Bible, with its four Egyptian pulleys; and even more important, it is the two central pulleys that have been reinterpreted into what is one of the highlights of the Old Testament: the entire story of Abraham (the father of a nation), his wife Sarah and their servant Hagar. There is the Triad that is describing the Egyptian pulley in the Bible.

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Giza for flash-evaporative cold production, most probably to cool down manufacturing of pure sodium carbonate natron through an ammonia Solvay-like process.

"Wire rope transmission, stands apart from all other power transmission technologies because it doesn't involve any conversion of energy. An endless rope drive transmits mechanical energy directly from a power source to machinery. This makes rope transmission more efficient than any other alternative up to a distance of a few kilometers." Illustration from W.C. Unwin's 1894 book "On the Development and Transmission of Power from Central Station": https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/03/the-mechanical-transmission-of-power-3-wire-ropes.html

44.01  Reconsidering the ancient world beyond all religious beliefs: the ideological shift of The Pyramids of the Cold

Most probably, the Pyramids of the Cold will not be accepted any time soon, of course I get that; there is no way general public will accept that the Great Pyramid wasn't a tomb (even if there is no indication it was, and even if there are many clues indicating it was something totally different from a tomb), and even less when I explain that the ancient Egyptian religion or the Greek mythology only are the glorifications of what happened in this Pyramid (it's a little bit too much summarized, but it's close enough). So, now that I'm explaining that the Jewish religion also is only another of these reinterpretations that occurred during the ancient times of the operation of the Great Pyramid, well let's say it won't help.

I'm not saying The Pyramids of the Cold won't trigger the biggest intellectual revolution of human history, because it will, and I know it sounds extremely pretentious, but this is simple deduction; what I'm saying is that it will take time, it will take decades before people start to disregard everything they've been told for generations. But it will happens, and it will happens despite all religious beliefs.

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing the hauling of the impactor. During this hauling phase, the four ropes of the Gallery are flying all over the Gallery, without ever touching the ground.

44.02  The driving and hauling ropes were 'transmitting' the mechanical power of the hauling Beetle to the impactor, so they have been glorified into 'messengers'... and because they never touched the ground they were represented with wings: the Angels are the ropes

One of the most iconic symbol that The Pyramids of the Cold is addressing, is the angel: where does it comes from? General public won't probably like the answer to that question; people like the vision we have of the angels, the vision we have collectively. But the fact is that if angels are described as 'messengers' in the Bible, it is only because they are metaphorical glorifications of ropes (and probably the chain of the upper hatch as well), and I guess they are mostly about the four ropes of the Gallery. Angels were the messengers because they were the ones transmitting driving and hauling power, but most of all these ropes never were touching the floor; they never touched the ground, so the ancients represented them with little wings on their backs. This is how and why angels were born.

"In Judaism, angels (Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ‎ mal’āḵ; "messenger"), are understood through interpretation of the Tanakh and in a long tradition as supernatural beings who stand by God in heaven, but are strictly to be distinguished from God (YHWH) and are subordinate to him. Occasionally, they can show selected people God's will and instructions. In the Jewish tradition they are also inferior to humans since they have no will of their own and are able to carry out only one divine command."

"The Torah uses the Hebrew terms מלאך אלהים (mal'āk̠ 'ĕlōhîm; "messenger of God"), מלאך יהוה (mal'āk̠ Yahweh; "messenger of the Lord"), בני אלהים (bənē 'ĕlōhîm; "sons of God") and הקודשים (haqqôd̠əšîm; "the holy ones") to refer to beings traditionally interpreted as angels. Later texts use other terms, such as העליונים (hā'elyônîm; "the upper ones"). The term 'מלאך' ('mal'āk̠') is also used in other books of the Hebrew Bible. Depending on the context, the Hebrew word may refer to a human messenger or to a supernatural messenger." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel

[Illustration of the flying rope] Pinup Sophia Western, with a skipping rope. Engraved by J.C. Stadler and Piercy Roberts after a drawing by Adam Buck: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:1800-jumprope-pinup-Sophia-Western.jpg

44.03  Hagar really is the angel ready to lift her son Ishmael

On the above painting, there is Hagar and an angel looking at each over while her son Ishmael is laying on the ground in an inanimate posture. We'll see later who really is Ishmael when we'll talk about Isaac, but here let's talk about Hagar and the angel. If you've already read most of the study, you know that ancient Egyptian glorifications of the operation of the Great Pyramid, as well as their Hebraic reinterpretations had used many, many times the same trick by representing different visions of one single thing, all in the same picture. Here, when Hagar and the angel are looking at each others, it is another illustration of that trick: Hagar really is the angel. And that is the key of the painting, as well as the key to the comprehension of Hagar: Hagar is the angel, and because the angels are about the ropes of the Grand Gallery, then Hagar is one of these ropes.

In other words, when Hagar is looking at the angel, she is looking at herself and she is explaining that she is gonna be the one taking care of her son, that she will be the one to raise Ishmael up from his inanimate posture.

[illustration] Hagar is banished with her young son Ishmael in the desert. Grigory Ivanovich Ugryumov (1785): Arthive

44.04  Hagar is the Jewish reinterpretation of the Isis hauling ropes

First of all, I want to emphasize one more time how deeply respectful I am of every religious person; I really didn't expect that this study that started on ancient Egypt alone, is now fully dedicated to the Hebraic religion, and I am only following some kind of natural path. Anyhow, what I'm deciphering little by little, is only about the origin of the Hebraic religion, and it is not a judgment on what this religion has become over time. Religions' only goal is to unite people and create a community where everyone is sharing common values, and that isn't changed by my work; and what I'm gonna reveal about Sarah, Sarai, Abram, Abraham, Lot or Hagar won't change anything in that manner: Sarah and Abraham will still be the same prophets.

Anyhow, the deciphering of their origin starts here with Hagar: Hagar, Sarah's slave, is the key. We've just seen that Hagar was the one to really raise her son Ishmael on the above painting, even if she doesn't have the wings of an angel; but here with the painting of Hagar by James Tissot, we do have the 'complete' meaning of Hagar. But for that, you need to combine the two paintings.

So, in the first painting you have: the angel/Hagar/Ishmael and in the second painting by Tissot, you have: the angel/Hagar/something pulled out of the well; but guess what: the two paintings are actually depicting the same thing: Hagar is a rope, and that is this rope that is pulling up 'something' out of the waters of the well; and of course, this 'something' is the impactor of the Great Pyramid when it was stuck inside the waters of the inclined well and needed to be pulled out. In short, Egyptians have glorified the two central hauling ropes of the Great Pyramid into goddess Isis, and Jews have glorified these same ropes into Hagar, pulling Ishmael out of the well:

• Hagar is grabbing the jar with two hands, so he is about two ropes

• Hagar is standing next to the well's mouth, so she is about the two central hauling ropes reaching the inclined well

• Ishmael is the one being raised up by the two hands of Hagar

From all this, we can assume that Hagar is only the Hebraic reinterpretation of Isis, the Egyptian glorification of the two central hauling ropes that got the impactor out of the waters of the inclined well, and that her son Ishmael is only the reinterpretation of the impactor itself. At this point, we don't know if Ishmael is about Ra, Osiris or Horus.

[illustration] Hagar and the Angel in the Desert, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902), gouache on board, at the Jewish Museum, New York: thejewishmuseum.org/collection/26694-hagar-and-the-angel-in-the-desert-l-ange-et-agar-dans-le-desert

44.05  The size of an angel (as a child or an adult) is only about the length of the rope that angel really is about

Another very fascinating thing we can assume from the Tissot painting, is about the appearance of the angel: when in the Great Pyramid, the two central hauling ropes were really reaching the mouth of the inclined well, the ropes would then be completely unwound and 100% of their lengths would be standing in the central wooden Djed caisson of the Grand Gallery; and that is most probably the reason why the angel next to the well is in an adult form: the size, or the age of an angel is most certainly reflecting the length of the rope that the angel is really about.

44.06  Ok, Hagar is about the two hauling ropes, but what about Sarah and Abraham?

Well, remember previous chapter about Ezekiel and the Egyptian pulleys: the whole system is made of three different components: first you have the (inactive) cradle of the pulley, then you have the (active) wheel of the pulley, and finally you have the (active) ropes operating the pulley. We've just deciphered that Hagar (the servant of Sarah), was about the rope; and by just saying that, you probably have already understood that if Hagar is the servant of Sarah, and Hagar is the rope, then Sarah herself is about what is in direct contact with the rope, i.e. the active part of the pulley that is the pulley's wheel.

In other words, it is because the one who is doing all the work (that is the hauling ropes), has been reinterpreted into Hagar, that the pulleys operated by the ropes have been reinterpreted into Sarah, Hagar being the 'servant' of Sarah.

Look at the above painting by Charles Foster, representing Sarah (in the middle, leaning forward), giving the servant Hagar (on the left, being a reinterpretation of the two central hauling ropes of the Grand Gallery) to seated Abraham (on what looks like a very confortable chair), and focus on their posture and you will understand that the whole thing only is a perfect artistic and metaphoric reinterpretation of the operation of an Egyptian pulley, with its three parts, here perfectly separated. From right to left, we have the inactive cradle, the active pulley wheel and the active rope.

• Abraham is the cradle of the pulley: he is big, seated and doesn't move an inch (he actually is that chair!)

• Sarah is the pulley wheel: she is very active but completely arched, and she is restraining Hagar inside her hands

• Hagar is the hauling rope: she is standing perfectly upright, but she cannot move from Sarah's grip

“Hagar, in the Old Testament (Gen. 16:1–16; 21:8–21), Abraham’s concubine and the mother of his son Ishmael. Purchased in Egypt, she served as a maid to Abraham’s childless wife, Sarah, who gave her to Abraham to conceive an heir. When Hagar became pregnant, her meek manner changed to arrogance; with Abraham’s reluctant permission, Sarah treated her so harshly that she fled into the wilderness.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hagar-biblical-figure

[illustration] Abraham, Sarah (in the middle) and Hagar (on the left) in a Bible illustration; painting by Charles Foster, published in 1897, Philadelphia, PA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#/media/File:Foster_Bible_Pictures_0032-1.jpg

44.07  Look at their feet!

If you still have some doubts, please look at the feet of the three characters on the painting by James Tissot:

• If Abraham has two beautiful sandals, it is only because of the anchoring metaphor that we've already seen in the Two Sandals of Isis, Isis being the Egyptian glorification of the two central hauling ropes, towing the impactor up.

• If Hagar (the Hebraic way of glorifying that same active central hauling ropes), doesn't have any sandal on her feet, it is only because she was in some ways "flying" all over the Gallery, and you don't want sandals when doing so.

• And last but not least: if Sarah doesn't show any foot at all, no it is not because Sarah is modest or chaste; it is just because she is the reinterpretation of a pulley, and because the pulley was nested inside its block of stone, you could only have seen the top part of the pulley. Because the bottom part of an Egyptian pulley is hidden by its supporting cradle block, you simply couldn't have seen Sarah's feet either.

44.08  Sarah, Abraham and Hagar were actually just another operating Triad

You'll note that even if the three characters look distant from one another, when you look at their feet, you realize they are actually supposed to be very close: the three of them are forming a real operating Triad, just like an Egyptian triad.

Rocking cradle, by Pearson Scott Foresman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_(bed)#/media/File:Cradle_2_(PSF).png

The Cradle, a painting by Berthe Morisot (1872) at the Musée d'Orsay, France. The Yorck Project, Google Arts and Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-cradle/WAE_4Ek4Dn6EnA?hl=en-GB

44.09  Abraham 'father of a nation': the cradle metaphor

Now we'll discuss some of the metaphors that have been used with Abraham, Sarah and the servant Hagar that are describing the operation of the Egyptian pulley, and we're gonna start with Abraham, the Patriarch and the founding father of the Jewish nation. Here, you have to remember that Abraham is the reinterpretation of the cradle of the pulley, its unmovable base that functioned exactly like the kind of cradle where you put your baby in. This actually really is one of the easiest metaphors to understand we've seen so far: Abraham was the cradle of the Egyptian pulley, so he has been seen in some ways as the Great Master of Cradles; and that made him the Father of the Jewish nation.

“The Pulley consists of two components: a smooth surfaced cylinder with a center, circumferential, roughened rope groove; and a smooth cradle in which the cylinder rotates” : EXARC, Reinventing the Egyptian Pulley (Stephen & Gregory Blakely): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0UPjIEWwQ

"Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad." […] " In Jewish tradition, Abraham is called Avraham Avinu (אברהם אבינו), "our father Abraham," signifying that he is both the biological progenitor of the Jews and the father of Judaism, the first Jew." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

44.10  Both Abraham and Sarah laughing: the throat metaphor (rire à gorge déployée)

Please, tell me nobody really believes that when Sarah and Abraham are told they are gonna have a child of their own, that Sarah will finally bear a child herself, please, oh please, tell me nobody really believes that they both start to laugh at this announcement if it isn't a metaphor. When you are told you are gonna be a parent, you can have many reactions depending on the context, but never, oh boy never you burst out laughing right?. So yes, 'Sarah and Abraham laughing' is another metaphor; and it is about the grooves of the Egyptian pulley.

In French, instead of saying "burst out laughing", we would say "rire à gorge déployée" ("gorge" meaning "throat"), because of the laugh that is produced inside the throat; and here with Abraham and Sarah, that throat is what the metaphor is all about: because the Egyptian pulley has two magnificent grooves, that look like throats (the groove of the Abraham cradle that is made to accommodate the wheel, and the groove of the Sarah pulley wheel that is made to accommodate the rope), and because the operation of the pulley is making a lot of noise, the grooves that look like throats appear like they are laughing.

1 • Sarah laughing at the idea of bearing a child (Isaac): "One of the visitors told Abraham that upon his return next year, Sarah would have a son. While at the tent entrance, Sarah overheard what was said and she laughed to herself about the prospect of having a child at their ages. The visitor inquired of Abraham why Sarah laughed at bearing a child at her age, as nothing is too hard for God. Frightened, Sarah denied laughing."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

"For Sarah, the thought of giving birth and nursing a child, at such an old age, also brought her much laughter, as she declared, "God had made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah

2 • Abraham laughing at the idea of having a child (Isaac): "Thirteen years later, when Abram was 99 years of age, God declared Abram's new name: "Abraham" – "a father of many nations". Abraham then received the instructions for the covenant of the pieces, of which circumcision was to be the sign. God declared Sarai's new name: "Sarah", blessed her, and told Abraham, "I will give thee a son also of her". Abraham laughed, and "said in his heart, 'Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear [a child]?'" Immediately after Abraham's encounter with God, he had his entire household of men, including himself (age 99) and Ishmael (age 13), circumcised."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

[illustration] How to laugh, using your throat: https://www.wikihow.com/Laugh#/Image:Laugh-Step-6-Version-4.jpg

Millstones for grinding rye straw at Vaux paper mill, Payzac, Dordogne, France. Photograph by Father Igor: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Payzac_papeterie_Vaux_meules.JPG

44.11  Abraham and Sarah using the 'finest flour': the grinding stone metaphor

There is another metaphor here, and it is about the "cakes made from choice flour" ordered by Abraham when the Three "Men" are visiting both Sarah and Abraham. If it is not said that some "chosen cakes" are ordered by Abraham to Sarah, but "choice flour", it is because the flour is important. This part of the story is about the flour and not about the cake, and it is only because the endless rotating movement of Sarah (the stone pulley) inside Abraham (the cradle block stone), would have looked like the way flour is produced using a grinding stone.

And of course, if you look at Abraham and Sarah, as what they really are all about, two intricate blocks of stone, constantly in motion one inside each other, just like two grinding stones making flour, the 'Abraham and Sarah grinding stones' would have been the most smooth of all grinding stones ever made and they would have produced the finest flour ever made.

"Not long afterward, during the heat of the day, Abraham had been sitting at the entrance of his tent by the terebinths of Mamre. He looked up and saw three men in the presence of God. Then he ran and bowed to the ground to welcome them. Abraham then offered to wash their feet and fetch them a morsel of bread, to which they assented. Abraham rushed to Sarah's tent to order ash cakes made from choice flour, then he ordered a servant-boy to prepare a choice calf. When all was prepared, he set curds, milk and the calf before them, waiting on them, under a tree, as they ate."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

Genesis 18-6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.” Genesis 18 (New International Version): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2018&version=NIV

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery, showing the four Egyptian pulleys who redirected the two driving ropes to the windlass and the two hauling ropes to the Gallery. The two central stone Egyptian pulleys who were directly involved into hauling the impactor back up, had been glorified into Abram and Sarai for one of them, and into Abraham and Sarah for the second one.

44.12  Abram didn't really changed his name at 99 years old for Abraham, nor Sarai changed her name for Sarah: there was both Abram and Abraham at the same time, next to each other, side to side because they were both reinterpretations of the two central Egyptian pulleys of the Great Pyramid, and they were simply one cubit wide

What's very interesting about all the reinterpretations that had been made of the ancient Egyptian religion, about the operation of the Great Pyramid, is that when Egyptians pushed the metaphors to their limits of understanding and extreme complexity, these reinterpertations by Jews or Greeks for example, were actually much less abstract, so to say; they really went more into details, into numbers. Here, is the perfect example of how writters loosened up on their metaphors.

I guess not everybody knows that Abraham was first known as Abram, and Sarah as Sarai; they both changed their names at the same time, when they were told that Sarai/Sarah was going to be pregnant; Abram changed his name for Abraham, at 99 years old, when Sarai changed her name for Sarah, at 90 years old.

But now that we know that both Abraham and Sarah are about an Egyptian pulley, and that it was a pulley used in the Great Pyramid, these numbers are of very high importance. Remember that the Grand Gallery, and the upper platfom where were set the four Egyptian pulleys, was four cubits wide; so if there was four of these pulleys in a four cubits space, most probably each of these pulleys were one cubit wide.

Until now, this one cubit wide Egyptian pulley was only hypothetical, but what's in the Bible might change everything for that matter. Because, of course the 99 number isn't about the age of Abram, it is about the length of Abram (the width of the Egyptian pulley's cradle): 99 shouldn't be read 99 actually, but rather .99; and then when Abram is getting to 100 years old (100 should then be read 1.00), there is no Abram anymore, because we simply got to the second central pulley; we got to Abraham.

"Thirteen years later, when Abram was 99 years of age, God declared Abram's new name: "Abraham" – a father of many nations". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

"Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad." […] " In Jewish tradition, Abraham is called Avraham Avinu (אברהם אבינו), "our father Abraham," signifying that he is both the biological progenitor of the Jews and the father of Judaism, the first Jew." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

44.13  When the width of the Egyptian pulley's cradles was one cubit, the width of the wheels was 0.90 cubit

And there is something else here that will be of some very importance, when it will be time to reconstruct the whole design of the Great Pyramid: if the four Egyptian pulleys on the upper platform in the Grand Gallery, were exactly one cubit wide, we probably also have the width of the pulley wheels themselves, simply because when both Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah are announced Sarah will become pregnant and Abram will have to change his name into Abraham, Sarai will have to change her own name at 90 years old. So if the cradle of the Egyptian pulleys (Abram and Abraham) were one cubit wide, then the pulley wheels would have been 0.90 cubit wide.

44.14  Abram and Abraham as the two central Egyptian pulleys... and Lot for the lateral ones: the play on words about "either on the left or on the right hand" that really means on both hands

There is another play on words here, with Lot and Abram, when both are supposed to separate: if Abram is one of the two central Egyptian cradles, then Lot is about the lateral cradles; and because there is not just Abram, but also Abraham, it means that when Lot decides to go East of Abram, his "double" is then going west of Abraham. In other words, Lot doesn't go "either on the left or on the right hand": Lot goes both on the left and on the right hand of Abram and Abraham.

• because Lot chose to separate from Abram by going East, and Lot is about one of the two lateral pulleys, then Abram is about the eastern central pulley

• and because Abram, was also Abraham, then Abraham also had his own lateral pulley: the western one

"When they lived for a while in the Negev after being banished from Egypt and came back to the Bethel and Ai area, Abram's and Lot's sizable herds occupied the same pastures. This became a problem for the herdsmen, who were assigned to each family's cattle. The conflicts between herdsmen had become so troublesome that Abram suggested that Lot choose a separate area, either on the left hand or on the right hand, that there be no conflict amongst brethren. Lot decided to go eastward to the plain of Jordan, where the land was well watered everywhere as far as Zoar, and he dwelled in the cities of the plain toward Sodom. Abram went south to Hebron and settled in the plain of Mamre, where he built another altar to worship God."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

Abraham and Lot Divided the Land (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_and_Lot%27s_conflict#/media/File:Foster_Bible_Pictures_0030-1.jpg

44.15  There is no Sarai who becomes Sarah, nor there is Abram who becomes Abraham: there are all at the same time both Sarai and Sarah, and there are both Abram and Abraham side to side... there is only metaphors and play on words

What is extraordinary is that the problem of the approximative deciphering of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs doesn't apply with the Bible (or at least, isn't that critical); so when only vague metaphors have survived the deciphering of the Egyptian religion, a lot of metaphors and play on words survived in the Bible; and they still are in very good conditions, so to speak. For example, when it is said that Abraham was originally named Abram, and Sarah was originally named Sarai, it shouldn't be taken literally: if their names are very similar, should I say very close, it is only because Abram and Abraham, as well as Sarai and Sarah were all at the same time, in the same place and very close. They were so close actually that they were really side by side.

44.16  The play on words also by ancient Egyptian themselves: how to get from 360 (degrees) to 365 (days)

This kind of play on words and numbers isn't new: we've already seen that ancient Egyptians had already beautifully used the same trick: because the 360 degrees in a circle sounds very close to the 365 days in a year, they've come up with the myth which is explaining how there were originally only 360 days in a year, before it got to 365. But this is simply a magnificent way on playing with the fact that 360 and 365 are very close numbers, when at the same time glorifying both a mathematical knowledge and an astronomical knowledge; and that is the perfect illustration of the sophistication of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Of course, you'll note that the myth is starring god of Science Thoth.

"Nut had a strong relationship with Geb, her twin brother, as well as Thoth the god of scribes and wisdom. She was the goddess of the Sky and Geb was the god of the Earth. In the morning they were separated but at night they came together, which created the darkness. This is a story the ancient Egyptians used to explain their 365-day calendar. Nut loved Geb and Thoth, but she was married to Ra. When Ra found out about her secret loves, he was furious. He told Nut that she could not have any children on any of the 360 days of the year. This saddened her, so she went to Thoth for help. She gambled with Khonsu (the moon god) to create 5 more days, so she and Geb could have five children. The children were: Osiris was first, Horus was second, Set was third, Isis was fourth, and Nephthys was the fifth. She and Ra also had one daughter named Sekhmet, the lion goddess, who had a flip personality called Hathor the goddess of love and peace. Nut is gorgeous and worshipped, and she was a protective goddess, like Bast (the cat goddess)." https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(goddess)

[illustration] https://rhymeswithspaghetti.tumblr.com/post/62412477067/brainwashing

Operating Great Pyramid of Khufu, for flash-evaporative cooling of a (hypothetical) Solvay process.

44.17  The supreme being God Yahweh who was living in the Great Pyramid

When you think it through, it shouldn't be a surprise that the endless operating of the impactor of the Great Pyramid ended up somehow assimilated to some kind of supreme being, some kind of god. I actually spent a lot of time trying to imagine what people would have feel when being close to the Pyramid in operation, and I encourage you to do that as well: imagine being around the Pyramid, living your day in the nearby town and experiencing literally 'in your bones' the endless pounding of the impactor; imagine the endless rumbling sound that would emanate from the whole structure every 15 to 20 minutes or so; and imagine that at the same time you hear this endless pounding sound, you also watch gigantic pressurized air jet(s) coming out of the Queen's chamber's shaft(s). No wonder everyone would have imagined that some kind of god was living in the Great Pyramid, and that every 15 to 20 minutes or so, you would simply have heard his very beating heart, and saw his very own breathing.

44.18  "In the mountain the Lord [Yahweh] was seen"... is of course about the Great Pyramid

"The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק‎ ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaq), or simply "The Binding" (הָעֲקֵידָה‎ hāʿAqēḏā), is a story from Genesis 22 of the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply, having bound Isaac to an altar, he is stopped by the Angel of the Lord; a ram appears and is slaughtered in Isaac's stead, as God commends Abraham's pious obedience.

According to the Hebrew Bible, God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. After Isaac is bound to an altar, a messenger from God stops Abraham before the sacrifice finishes, saying "now I know you fear God". Abraham looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac.

The passage states that the event occurred at "the mount of the LORD" in "the land of Moriah". Chronicles 3:1 refers to "mount Moriah" as the site of Solomon's Temple, while Psalms 24:3, Isaiah 2:3 and 30:29, and Zechariah 8:3 use the term "the mount of the LORD" to refer to the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the location believed to be the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Genesis 22:14, the phrase YHWH yireh is taken to mean "in the mountain the Lord was seen", the mountain being Mount Gerizim."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac

[illustration] Edited image from a glass plate photographic negative taken in 1865 by Charles Piazzi Smyth of the 'Great Pyramid, its sepulchral hill, the Sphinx' © Royal Observatory Edinburgh CPS Archives: https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/global-arts-cultures-and-design/ancient-egyptian-and-sudanese-collections/ancient-egyptian-collection/pyramid-casing-stone/

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