The Pyramids of the Cold Section 23 • Isis and the squeaky hauling ropes of the Gallery

Isis (left), and Nephthys (right) stand by as Anubis embalms the deceased, in the Theban Tomb 335 (Nakhtamun), thirteenth century BCE. Slightly edited image. Original image by ShillukinUSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis#/media/File:ThebanTomb335.png

The Pyramids of the Cold v2 (May 2023) • Part D: the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid

Section 23 • Isis and the squeaky hauling ropes of the Gallery

Summary: we've already seen that the Sokar deity was representing the latch bolts of the Grand Gallery that enabled the sequential hauling of the impactor, one step at a time; and we've also seen that Aker represented both the axle beam and its holders; but there is even more to find out about the operating of the impactor: Isis and Nephthys were the representation of the impactor's Hauling rope.

In the Osiris myth, these two goddesses are the ones saving Osiris from the Great Serpent Apep; it means that they are the ones who are getting Osiris out of the waters of the inclined well. Of course, the myth is only mentioning Osiris, because in the single Ra-Osiris deity, Ra was only considered as the "soul", while Osiris was the "corpse".

One very important comprehension key for the deciphering of the ancient Egyptian civilization, is the way that both major parts of every operating process they've accomplished have been emphasized: they've not just glorified and deified the ropes of the Grand Gallery in the active part of their operation; on the contrary they've deified both active and inactive parts of the cycle.

Isis and Nephthys are the glorifications of one same rope: when Isis is about the active hauling rope, really in the act of towing the impactor, Nephthys is that same rope, but completely coiled upon the axle beam of the Grand Gallery's platform, and inactive.

The same way, Wadjet is about the active rope drives transmitting the hauling power of the Beetle to the axle beam, and Nekhbet is about these two ropes, also coiled upon the drive shaft axle beam and inactive.

This active and inactive parts of every cycle in nature (like the water cycle between liquid water and evaporated water), or in any operating process, is something that happens to be already known to egyptologists by the name of the "principle of inactivity and repose"; a principle that ancient Egyptians used many times in their own global deification process.

23.01  Isis and Nephthys are the Ones saving both Ra and Osiris from the Great Serpent Apep

We've already seen that the Sokar deity was representing the latch bolts of the Grand Gallery that enabled the sequential hauling of the impactor, one step at a time; and we've also seen that Aker represented both the axle beam and its holders; but there is even more to find out about the operating of the impactor: Isis and Nephthys were the representation of the impactor's Hauling rope.

In the Osiris myth, these two goddesses are the ones saving Osiris from the Great Serpent Apep; it means that they are the ones who are getting Osiris out of the waters of the inclined well. Of course, the myth is only mentioning Osiris, because in the single Ra-Osiris deity, Ra was only considered as the "soul", while Osiris was the "corpse".

Isis and Nephthys actually gave life back to both of them, Ra (the wooden impactor) and Osiris (the granite stone).

"It is Nephthys who assists Isis in gathering and mourning the dismembered portions of the body of Osiris after his murder by the envious Set. Nephthys also serves as the nursemaid and watchful guardian of the infant Horus."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephthys

"Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. A member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, she was a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites because of their role as protectors of the mummy and the god Osiris and as the sister-wife of Set."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephthys

If Isis is described as the wife of Osiris, the one who at the very end of the myth is giving life back to him, and if there are many sexual metaphors about Isis and Osiris copulating, it is because, as the metaphorical representation of the central rope (the impactor's Hauling rope); Isis and Osiris were constantly uncoupled (for the release of the impactor) and reassembled (to get the impactor back to the top of the Gallery).

"Isis, who is Osiris's wife as well as his sister, is his queen. Set kills Osiris and, in several versions of the story, dismembers his corpse. Isis and Nephthys, along with other deities such as Anubis, search for the pieces of their brother's body and reassemble it. […] Finally, Isis restores breath and life to Osiris's body and copulates with him."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

In the next paragraphs, we'll see why both twin sisters Isis and Nephthys were actually both representing the impactor's Hauling rope, and why on the above image from Nakhtamun Theban tomb 335, Isis is at Osiris' feet and obviously pushing the Osiris' Bed, while Nephthys is standing still at Osiris' head.

The twin sister goddesses Isis on the left, and Nephthys on the right. Draws by Jeff Dahl on Wikipedia.

Original ropes discovered in the Kheops Solar boat pit. Photograph by Jon Bodsworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_ship

23.02  One of the names of Nephthys is Seshat

The question now is to know what these twin sisters are really representing, and it is Nephthys who is giving the answer, because she is all about ropes.

Most of the time, Nephthys and Seshat are considered two different deities, but this is incorrect: Seshat is only one particular aspect of Nephthys. Seshat is one of the names of Nephthys:

"As early as the Pyramid Texts (the oldest ones date from 2400-2300 BCE), Nephthys is said to have “collected all your members for you in this Her name of Seshat, Lady of Builders.” (Pyramid Texts, Utterance 364)": https://isiopolis.com/2014/07/13/oh-yes-more-nephthys/

"In utterance 364, Nephthys, identified with Seshat, “Lady of Builders,” has collected the limbs of Osiris/the deceased": https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/nephthys/

"Nephthys has been treated here in some detail, foe Seshat proves to have been one of her forms. The Pyramid Texts, par.616, speak of Nephthys 'in this her name of Seshat, Mistress of Builders', and the late inscriptions again record Seshat as a form of Nephthys". Source Sage journals at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030751334002600105?journalCode=egaa

23.03  Seshat (and her "stretching the cord" ceremony) and Nephthys (and her "Tresses") are about ropes

Probably a good interpretation of the couple constituted of Nephthys and Seshat, would be to identify Nephthys as the 'mythological' aspect of what was really represented into Seshat: the ropes.

"As Lady of Builders, one of Seshat’s main functions is to lay out the boundaries for new buildings, especially temples, via the ceremony of “stretching the cord,” which was a method of using a cord or rope to measure out straight foundations for a building." https://isiopolis.com/2014/07/13/oh-yes-more-nephthys/

This "stretching the cord" ceremony of Seshat, echoes one of the most famous attributes of Nephthys: her "tresses".

The "tresses of Nephthys" are the ropes used by her own Seshat "technical" aspect of herself.

23.04  Isis is the impactor's Hauling rope getting Osiris out of the waters of the well

The reason why both Isis and Nephthys are holding a Wadj scepter representing the stem of papyrus, from which ancient ropes were made of, is because they are both representations of ropes; and because Nephthys was the twin sister or Isis, it also means that Isis is representing a rope.

And it makes perfect sense: if Isis is the One who is giving life back to Osiris and to the impactor Ra, by getting them both out of the inclined well waters, it is because Isis is the impactor's Hauling rope.

Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr) frame 3, at the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA9901-3

23.05  The Nephthys mystery: which rope(s) is she referring to?

I first thought that Nephthys, the twin sister of Isis, was representing the two other ropes of the Grand Gallery: the ones directly connecting the Hauling beetle with the axle beam. At first glance, it looked satisfying. But actually, nothing about Nephthys is supporting this idea. Everything about her is so mysterious:

"When in a dyad with Isis, Nephthys is decidedly the “darker” one. The Pyramid Texts advise the king to “descend with Nephthys” in the Barque of the Night, but arise with Isis in the Barque of the Day."

"Later he says that Nephthys is what is “below the earth and invisible” in contrast with Isis Who “is above the earth and manifest.”

"The one being reborn is to “throw off the tresses of Nephthys” like he throws off his mummy wrappings at his rebirth".

https://isiopolis.com/2014/07/13/oh-yes-more-nephthys/

I really tried to make Nephthys the representation of these two lateral Beetle's Hauling ropes, but in vain. And suddenly, I got it: like the Barque of Ra, which is simply Ra himself; there is no such thing as Isis and her twin sister Nephthys: they are both representing the same thing, they are both about the same rope.

Isis and Nephthys are both glorifying representations of the impactor's Hauling rope, and the difference between the two of them, is that they are not representing the rope in the same moment in its operating cycle.

Because we know that Isis is saving Osiris, meaning she is getting the impactor out of the well, it is pretty easy to understand her : Isis is the typical representation of a Hauling rope that anybody could imagine.

In the following excerpt, Isis is even described "travelling among humans". This phrase looks pretty insignificant, but it is not : because Isis was the impactor's Hauling rope that was set into the central gutter of the Gallery, Isis was indeed literally "travelling" among the crewmembers of the Hauling Beetle.

"In some texts, Isis travels among humans and must seek their help". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

23.06  Isis and Nephthys are the same impactor's Hauling rope: the active one; and the inactive one, coiled around the axle beam

The problem is with Nephthys. When Isis is described as "above the earth and manifest", Nephthys is described as "invisible".

"Later he says that Nephthys is what is “below the earth and invisible” in contrast with Isis Who “is above the earth and manifest.” https://isiopolis.com/2014/07/13/oh-yes-more-nephthys/

There is even this following excerpt that I find so interesting: "The one being reborn is to “throw off the tresses of Nephthys” like he throws off his mummy wrappings at his rebirth".

"The one being reborn is to “throw off the tresses of Nephthys” is actually price less, because it is talking about throwing off the rope so that one can reborn.

Once the impactor has been hauled to the top of the Gallery, I've suggested that it would have been disconnected with its rope before being released into the steep slope. At that exact moment, the Isis Hauling rope is completely wound around the axle beam, and then they had to disconnect the rope with the impactor.

23.07  Beheaded Isis and the release of the impactor, freed from the Hauling rope

Another way of saying that, is that they had to cut off Isis' head: "Isis continues to assist her son when he challenges Set to claim the kingship that Set has usurped […] as when Horus beheads Isis and she replaces her original head with that of a cow—an origin myth explaining the cow-horn headdress that Isis wears". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

It is also mentioned that the original head of Isis is replaced with the head of a cow, and it is directly referring to the act of towing itself : the cow is suggesting the towing (Hathor herself, as a representation of the Hauling beetle, is depicted into a cow goddess).

"Mooring lines are used when arriving or leaving a berth. One of the most important competent crew skills is to know how to handle and tie mooring lines securely and safely": https://www.safe-skipper.com/competent-crew-skills-mooring-lines/

Supply ratings handling a coil of 16 inches (410 mm) towing hawser (rope) at the Royal Navy's Naval Stores Department, Nore, Harwich. Royal Navy official photographer, Russell, J E (Lt) - This is photograph A 16341 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawser

23.08  The squeaky mooring lines metaphor of the so famous "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys"

Everything about the Osiris' festival is about the recreation of the operating of the Grand Gallery, and maybe the most important part of it is the famous "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys".

Here, on the coast of Brittany France, boats are everywhere and most of the time moored at quayside, with the mooring ropes making all kind of sounds because of the high winds. Some people can say they are just squeaky and creaky dock lines, but others would say they are singing!

The "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys" are simply, but beautifully reproducing the squeaky mooring sounds of the Isis impactor's Hauling rope. How's that for beautiful!

"she (Nephthys) certainly figured as a goddess of great importance in the annual rites conducted, wherein two chosen females or priestesses played the roles of Isis and Nephthys and performed the elaborate "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys".

"Her magical skills were similar to those of Isis and some scholars see her as Isis' mirror image, Nephthys' darkness balancing Isis' light, and they are frequently pictured together as twin sisters. In the city of Heliopolis Nephthys and Isis were represented by two virgin priestesses at festivals who would recite the famous Lamentations of Isis and Nepthys at the Osiris' festival. The Lamentations is a long narrative poem recreating the moment Isis and Nephthys worked together to revive the god Osiris and bring him back to life. Her symbols are the hawk and the temple and the sycamore tree, one of the more popular trees depicted in inscriptions from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Prayers were offered to Nephthys at twilight for protection and also to aid her as she struggled with her husband Set to defend the Boat of Ra (the sun god) from the serpent Apophis as it made its journey through the realms of night."   https://www.worldhistory.org/Nephthys/

23.09  The multi-strand rope deterioration due to the squeaking internal friction

For someone who never had to sleep on a small boat moored at the quayside, the squeaking and creaking noises caused by multi-strands ropes could be easily seen as quite meaningless: everybody likes to have a walk along quayside. But if you do want to sleep on the boats, you will quickly change your mind: there is nothing more annoying that these squeaky noises.

But more important, these noises are also a sign that the ropes are deteriorating, from the inside; and this is maybe the reason why ancient Egyptians were so concerned about these noises, and the reason of the Isis and Nephthys Lamentations.

"The "squeak" frequently comes from the strands of line rubbing against one another as they stretch and retract. The process generates internal friction that heats the line up, causes the strands to expand slightly, increases the friction, etc. etc. etc. Several research studies that line failures are frequently caused by internal heating rather than chafe, particularly when lines are run through plastic tubing that prevents water getting to the line and acting as a coolant."

Post by svHyLyte, at: https://www.sailnet.com/threads/squeaking-and-creaking-of-docklines-and-fenders.46595/

23.10  Isis is indeed also known as the "Great Mooring Post"

The fact is that this "mooring" metaphor about Isis, is actually perfectly documented in ancient Egyptian literature: "Isis is not just about rebirth and sunrise. She is also the Great Mooring Post". https://isiopolis12.rssing.com/chan-10218340/all_p4.html

Also, a very detailed study "When Isis "Moored" Osiris", by L. D. Graham - JEOL. Excerpt: "The present paper, which is philological in nature, addresses a central event in the Osiris myth as it is narrated in the Great Hymn on the Stele of Amenmose. Specifically, the Great Hymn says (in line 15) that, when Isis eventually located Osiris’s body after his murder by Seth, she “moored her brother”. https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:47012/datastreams/CONTENT/content

If you want to have an idea of how the "Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys" sounded like, please listen to this short YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehVjrNqfVvc

Tape measure, by William Warby on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/4915969081

How a tape measure works: Why it is retractable? by Mift H: https://www.fullyinstrumented.com/how-a-tape-measure-works/

23.11  The Seshat/Nephthys ancient Egyptian goddess of architects… and the modern Self-Retracting Tape Measure

Once in a while throughout my study about ancient Egypt, I stumble upon a little jewel that I particularly enjoy; and there is one right there with the Nephthys glorification of the impactor's Hauling rope completely coiled around the axle beam.

Nowadays, if anyone on earth would have to metaphorically describe one more time everything that happened in the Great Pyramid, like ancient Egyptians did 4500 years ago, I doubt that a deity would be created to represent the impactor's rope, not Hauling anything, simply resting on her axle beam. I'm sure it would be completely disregarded.

Egyptians didn't, and they even used this particular aspect of the operating cycle to create what is still today the emblem of any architect in the world: a measuring tape!

In some way, we can even go further into the metaphor, because if you really think it through, the functioning of the axle beam/impactor's Hauling rope unit, was a perfect match with a very modern self-retracting tape measure.

In modern tape measures, it is the spring mechanism that is retracting the tape; in the Great Pyramid, it was the Hauling beetle that was retracting the impactor's rope and the latch bolts that were having the role of the modern lock button of the tape.

"How a tape measure works are basically not rocket science. It only depends on its two major features: lock and spring mechanism. The lock button behaves to stop the tape from retracting when you extend it. The spring mechanism plays as the automatic roller to retract the tape." https://www.fullyinstrumented.com/how-a-tape-measure-works/

Technical draw of a rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope

Seven strand hemp rope: https://www.corderie-lorenzi.fr/en/elementor-3554/

 23.12  The hypothetical seven strand structure of the impactor's Hauling rope

Most probably, Seshat's emblem is a technical representation of the Hauling rope's structure: the rope would have had 7 strands.

The curious shape on top of the 7-pointed green emblem would be how ancient Egyptians have drawn our modern curly brackets: they are explaining that the 7 strands were combined to form one single rope.

"As Lady of Builders, one of Seshat’s main functions is to lay out the boundaries for new buildings, especially temples, via the ceremony of “stretching the cord,” which was a method of using a cord or rope to measure out straight foundations for a building."  https://isiopolis.com/2014/07/13/oh-yes-more-nephthys/

23.13  When the Hatmehit rope is becoming the Isis impactor's Hauling rope

We've seen that Isis is the rope actually involved in the act of towing the impactor (the active rope), when Nephthys is the same rope, but inactive, completely coiled upon the axle beam and disconnected with the impactor.

This part is crucial, because it is unimaginable that the impactor would be released into the slope of the Gallery, if it was still connected with the towing rope: the central rope absolutely had to be disconnected before the release of the impactor; hence the necessity to have the Bastet Hatch at the bottom of the central caisson, to reconnect the rope with the impactor.

It means that there is here another part of the operating cycle of the rope: the rope that is descending inside the central wooden caisson after the impactor had rammed into the waters of the well.

Hatmehit is about this part of the operating cycle; it is about the reattachment of the towing rope with the impactor. In other words, Hatmehit is about the birth (so to speak) of Isis.

When it is known that "Isis would begin to take the role of Hatmehit", it is actually all about the opposite: it is Hatmehit who is supposed to become Isis: "In earlier periods, Hatmehit was considered her own goddess. However from the Third Intermediate Period onwards, Isis would begin to take the role of Hatmehit in the local cult, with Hatmehit being considered a form of Isis particular to Mendes."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatmehit

The idea that Hatmehit was the representation of a rope that was supposed to be reconnected with the impactor is probably the meaning of the hole that the figures of Hatmehit have directly in their heads: that hole was meant for the rope itself.

Draw of goddess Hatmehit by Jeff Dahl. Hatmehit figures: https://www.ecured.cu/Hatmehyt_(diosa_egipcia)#/media/File:Hatmehyt.jpg

https://www.trocadero.com/stores/explorer/items/1383416 and https://www.thierrydemaigret.com/lot/13797/2579392

23.14  Hatmehit is about the impactor's Hauling rope, just like Isis or Nephthys

Many references about Hatmehit are pointing to the same conclusion: Hatmehit is another name for the impactor's Hauling rope, the one which have been called Isis and Nephthys.

In particular, it is known that Isis, Nephthys and Hatmehit are all "searching for the body of Osiris", who is the impactor floating in the inclined well waters. It means that the three of them are all together about the same impactor's Hauling rope: "There is one note of a Nephthys-Hatmehit in a hieratic papyrus Book of Hours. Additionally, Herman de Meulenaere argues that due to Hatmehit's epithets describing her as one of the parties who search for the body of Osiris that pointed to a connection with Nephthys as well". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatmehit

23.15  Hatmehit is the impactor's Hauling rope that was fishing the impactor out of the well

If goddess Hatmehit's emblem is a fish, it is because she is the deification of the impactor's Hauling rope in a very particular moment of the operating cycle of the Grand Gallery: the recovery of the impactor from the waters of the inclined well. Figures of Hatmehit also have a hole pierced in the head of the goddess, because she was "fishing the impactor out of the well".

"Hatmehyt was a fish-goddess worshipped in the Delta, particularly in the northeast at Mendes. The fish as a divinity is comparatively rare in the Egyptian pantheon, but Hatmehyt's name means "she who is in front of the fishes" […] At Mendes, in a district for which the ancient standard was the fish symbol indicating that Hatmehyt was the senior deity in terms of residence there, her cult becomes subordinated to that of the ram-god Banebdjedet - interpreted after his arrival as her consort."  http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/hatmehyt.htm

Operation of the Grand Gallery, Position P4: the hauling process of the impactor is underway

Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII between the goddesses Wadjet (symbolizing upper Egypt) and Nekhbet (symbolizing lower Egypt). Relief on wall of Temple of Edfu, Egypt. Olaf Tausch: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Edfu_Tempel_42.jpg

23.16  Both Isis and Wadjet were "protecting" the impactor Horus: they are both about the ropes of the Grand Gallery

"Wadjet, the "Green One" is an ancient Egyptian goddess known to the Greek world as Uto or Buto among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo. [...] Wadjet was said to be the nurse of the infant god Horus. With the help of his mother Isis, they protected Horus from his treacherous uncle, Set, when they took refuge in the swamps of the Nile Delta" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet

"With the help of his mother Isis, they protected Horus from his treacherous uncle, Seth": that phrase alone not only is the confirmation that Isis was protecting both the Osiris stone and the entire composite impactor (Horus = Ra + the Osiris stone), but it also means that Wadjet was deeply involved into the operating of that impactor.

23.17  The Two Ladies Beetle's Hauling ropes are transforming the axle beam into a drive shaft

The fact that both Isis and Wadjet were known to protect and defend Horus is priceless, because it is the clue to understand Wadjet, perfectly.

We've seen that if Isis was the one protecting and saving Osiris from the Great Serpent Apep, it is because Isis was the glorification of the impactor's Hauling rope, the rope which was recovering the impactor from the waters of the inclined well, on each cycle.

But the impactor's Hauling rope Isis isn't moved by itself: the power comes from the Hauling beetle and the axle beam. We already know that the axle beam has been glorified into Aker, so the only missing deification of the system has to be the ropes which were transmitting the power of the Hauling beetle to the axle beam.

These two ropes, the Beetle's Hauling ropes are transforming the axle beam into a drive shaft, and they are the ones which had been deified into the Two Ladies, Wadjet and Nekhbet.

Wadjet illustration with bow, from Pantheon Egyptien by Leon Jean Joseph Dubois, courtesy of rawpixel

Piece of papyrus rope which was discovered at the ancient Egyptian stone quarry of Tura in Egypt. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter City Council: https://rammcollections.org.uk/object/85-1999-1/

23.18  Wadjet was made of papyrus and as a rope, she "coiled upon the head of Ra"

If Wadjet's name means "the papyrus colored one" and if she is represented holding a bow in the above image, it is because Wadjet is the deification of the rope drives of the Hauling beetle of the Great Pyramid.

The bow is only another metaphor about the ropes, tension and potential energy.

"Her name mean "papyrus-colored one", as wadj is the ancient Egyptian word for the color green (in reference to the color of the papyrus plant) and the et is an indication of her gender. Its hieroglyphs differ from those of the Green Crown (Red Crown) of Lower Egypt only by the determinative, which in the case of the crown was a picture of the Green Crown and, in the case of the goddess, a rearing cobra. […]

"Eventually, Wadjet was claimed as the patron goddess and protector of the whole of Lower Egypt and became associated with Nekhbet, depicted as a white vulture, who held the same title in Upper Egypt."

"When the two parts of Egypt were joined together, there was no merger of the deities as often occurred, both beliefs were retained and became known, euphemistically, as the two ladies, who were the protectors of unified Egypt. After the unification the image of Nekhbet joined Wadjet on the crown, thereafter shown as part of the uraeus." […]

Depicted as an Egyptian cobra she became confused with Renenutet, whose identity eventually merged with hers. As patron and protector, later Wadjet often was shown coiled upon the head of Ra, who much later became the Egyptian chief deity".  https://www.crystalinks.com/wadjet.html

The vulture goddess Nekhbet, in the tomb of Nefertari, QV66, Valley of the Queens". Photographed by kairoinfo4u: https://www.flickr.com/photos/manna4u/34032213746/in/photostream/

23.19  The hidden coiled ropes of Nekhbet in the tomb of Nefertari

The funny thing about this representation of Nekhbet, is that the artist didn't really try very hard to hide the fact that Nekhbet was all about two ropes, one on the left and one on the right, and completely coiled around their axle beam.

The two fully coiled Nekhbet ropes are right there, before our very eyes, hidden under the feathers!

23.20  The metaphor of the vulture extending his very large wings onto the beam

The representation of Nekhbet in the tomb of Nefertari is extraordinary, because at some point the feathers of the vulture are replaced by vertical stripes in a vibrant bright orange color and that look like perfect representations of natural coiled ropes.

The vulture metaphor is particularly interesting, and it has probably been chosen because the two ropes were spread at both ends of the axle beam, like a vulture extending his very large wings onto the beam, and waiting for its prey.

23.21  Wadjet is the glorifying deification of the rope drives of the Hauling beetle

But just like Isis and Nephthys, there is a catch, neither Wadjet or Nekhbet are representing one particular rope or the other. Wadjet is referring to both of the active Hauling ropes: Wadjet is the glorifying deification of the rope drives, both of them. On the other hand, Nekhbet is referring to the exact same ropes, but they can't be seen as rope drives anymore, because they are the ropes completely coiled around the axle beam. Nekhbet cannot be associated with the axle beam as a drive shaft: Nekhbet is the inactive and resting side of Wadjet.

23.22  Wadjet was also the nurse of Horus the child (Horus the younger)

And because "Wadjet was said to be the nurse of the infant god Horus", it also confirms the idea that when being towed, the impactor was already seen as Horus the child (the infant, also Horus the younger). And it makes perfect sense: the Hauling of the impactor is fully associated with the youth of Horus, and he only becomes "adult" when released into the slope of the Gallery, growing speed and energy.

"Wadjet was said to be the nurse of the infant god Horus. With the help of his mother Isis, they protected Horus from his treacherous uncle, Set" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet

The three ropes of the Grand Gallery, fully coiled around the "inactive" axle beam (which was not a drive shaft at this point of the operating cycle). If Nephthys had to be disconnected, it is still unclear to me if the two lateral Nekhbet ropes had to be disconnected as well, or if their operating didn't required this extra step.

Image of the "big step" of the Grand Gallery's top platform, in "Great Pyramid Passages" Volume 1, 1910 edition, by John and Morton Edgar, plate CXVI, paragraph 473 page 238: https://archive.org/details/GreatPyramidPassagesVol11910Edition/page/n247/mode/1up

Datas of the massive top platform single block, from "The pyramids and temples of Gizeh", by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942. Publication date 1883, Section 47, page 75:   https://archive.org/details/cu31924012038927/page/n113/mode/2up

23.23  Nekhbet and the drive shaft axle beam are defining the limit between Upper and Lower Great Pyramid

The following excerpts are the absolute key points for the understanding of Wadjet and Nekhbet, and it also gives me the opportunity to correct an important inaccuracy about my interpretation of where was located the "floor level" that defined the Upper and Lower part of the Great Pyramid from the ancient Egyptian point of view, an which are the real meaning of what we call today "Upper and Lower Egypt".

"Nekhbet (also spelt Nekhebit) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb). Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified." 

"Wadjet was said to be the matron and protector of Lower Egypt, and upon unification with Upper Egypt, the joint protector and patron of all of Egypt."  Both images at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet

I've been assuming that this floor level was defined by the Lady Arbuthnot's chamber, where if I'm correct, would have been operated the (hypothetical) Solvay chambers that needed to be fed with the evaporative cold (previous Sections).

But obviously, I was wrong; because it is clearly said that:

1 • Nekhbet was the "patron of Upper Egypt" and one of the two patron deities of the "unified Egypt"

2 • Wadjet was the "matron of Lower Egypt" and one of the two patron deities of the "unified Egypt"

What it means is that this is Nekhbet who is defining the "floor level", in other words: the top platform of the Grand Gallery and everything which was set on its level, is part of the Upper part of the Pyramid, and part of Upper Egypt.

The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, is the glorification of these two parts of the pyramid, functioning together and combining their strengths; it is about the power of the drive shaft axle beam accumulating and giving back all its power to the impactor.

Diagram of the operating Great Pyramid of Egypt for 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 3 granite plugs were finally close to one another.

23.24  The ancient Egyptian well known principle of "inactivity or repose"

I was pretty surprised to see with Nekhbet, another example of the "inactive and resting" deification of a rope, just like the inactive Nephthys is to the active Isis rope drive; but then really by accident, I happened to stumble upon this exact same principle of the duality between the active and inactive vision of one single same thing, and it is the principle of "inactivity or repose", mentioned in Wikipedia's page on goddess Amunet, the counterpart of Amun, the god who was the deification of the fog of microdroplets of liquid water which evaporated and created the cold.

The question is why did they feel like showing both active and inactive sides, and why did they decided to glorify this idea by pairing so many gods and goddesses. Maybe it is a metaphysical aspect of their civilization, but maybe it is another metaphor; if so, it could simply refer to the fact that each crewmember of the Hauling beetle had his perfect counterpart on the other side of the Beetle, or that the operating of the Pyramid was sequential, resulting in an endless cycle. But this is purely hypothetical.

About goddess Amunet: "Her name, jmnt, is a feminine noun that means "The Hidden One". She is a member of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, who represented aspects of the primeval existence before the creation: Amunet was paired with Amun—whose name also means "The Hidden One", with a masculine ending (jmn)—within this divine group, from the earliest known documentation. Such pairing of deities is characteristic of the religious concepts of the ancient Egyptians. In early concepts known as the Ogdoad, the primeval deity group to which they belonged as "Night" (or as the determinative D41 meaning "to halt, stop, deny", suggesting the principle of inactivity or repose), was composed of four balanced couples of deities or deified primeval concepts.

Speculation exists that Amunet may have been conceived by later theologians as a complement to Amun, rather than being an independent deity originally, however, the Pyramid Texts, the earliest known religious texts of Ancient Egypt, mention "the beneficent shadow of Amun and Amunet": O Amun and Amunet! You pair of the gods, who joined the gods with their shadow."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amunet

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The Pyramids of the Cold version 2 (May 2023 - March 2024)

Summary of the study and Table of Contents

Part A: The evaporative cooling process

Section 1 • The horizontal evaporative cooling passage layout

Section 2 • The Dendera Light and the creation of the fog of microdroplets by the fog nozzle

Section 3 • The water cycle glorifying metaphors: Geb, Shu, Nut, Tefnut

Section 4 • The theorization of the evaporative cooling process by Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Section 5 • The theorization of the evaporative cooling process in the Weighing of the Heart

Part B • The inclined well of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Section 6 • The inclined well layout and the girdle stones

Section 7 • The Taweret "Lady of the Well" temporary sealing granite plug of the well

Section 8 • The Bes temporary wedging block immobilizing Taweret

Section 9 • The draining of the well

Section 10 • The Great Serpent Apep and the snake water metaphors

Section 11 • The Was scepter and the control over "snakes"

Section 12 • The beating Heart of the Great Pyramid

Part C • The composite impactor of the Great Pyramid (Horus, Ra, Osiris, Medjed, Sobek...)

Section 13 • The wooden and stone composite design of the impactor: Ra and Osiris

Section 14 • The endlessly immersed Osiris stone and the seed metaphor

Section 15 • The Anubis sledge and the bobsled mask

Section 16 • The sledge runners of the impactor: Thoth

Section 17 • Medjed: the smiter nobody can ever see

Section 18 • The Apis bull and the ramming impactor's metaphors

Section 19 • The crocodile god Sobek impactor (more or less) floating in the waters of the well

Section 20 • The Obelisk and the Benben stone rising from water

Part D • The Grand Gallery's of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Section 21 • The Sacred "sloping paths" of the "oval-shaped cavern of the act of Hauling"

Section 22 • The central wooden caisson of the Gallery: Sekhmet and the Triad of Memphis

Section 23 • The hauling ropes of the Grand Gallery: Isis, Nephthys, Hatmehit, Wadjet and Nekhbet

Section 24 • The hauling Beetle and the Seven Scorpions of Isis

Section 25 • The Great Cow goddess Hathor and the operating cycle of the hauling Beetle

Section 26 • The 10 operating phases of the Grand Gallery

Section 27 • The guide to the Afterlife for the smart traveler and the canopic jars

Section 28 • The scarab amulet glorifications of the hauling Beetle

Part E • The very large and roughly finished sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid

Section 29 • The biosand filter sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid

Section 30 • The Elephantine Triad deification of the biosand filter of the Great Pyramid

Section 31 • The Great Pyramid's operating flat roof and the water supply issue

Part F • Chemical manufacturing and industrial cooling before the Great Pyramid

Section 32 • The Serdab and the "Refreshment of the Gods" Step Pyramid of Djoser

Section 33 • Sneferu's Red Pyramid and the accumulated ammonia

Section 34 • The Disc of Sabu and the Solvay process for pure natron manufacturing

Part G • The tremendous impact of the Great Pyramid on the whole ancient world

Section 35 • The hidden secrets of the Hermetica Emerald Tablet (around 1600 C.E.)

Section 36 • Thor and the magical Hammer in the Great Hall of Bilskirnir

Section 37 • The Churning of the waters of the Ocean of Milk (Hindu mythology)

Section 38 • The Tibetan prayer wheels and the Grand Gallery's operation

Section 39 and Conclusion • The cooling water of spitting Kebechet

Part H • Epilogue

Section 40 • The smiting Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments

Section 41 • The 293 kilograms windlass Staff of Moses and Aaron... and the First Plague of Egypt: water turning into blood

Section 42 • Ezekiel's Four Egyptian pulley "Wheels within the Wheels" and the four angel ropes

Section 43 • David, Saul, two giant Goliaths, five little stones, an aeolian harp... and a weaver's beam

Section 44 • The holy water fonts and the biosand filter

Part I • The magicians of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Section 45 • The Legend of Khufu and the "magician" polymath Imhotep

Section 46 • The two magical eyes of Isis and the brilliant but painful flame of her twin sister's braids