THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 54 Why Thor truly is the Norse reinterpretation of Hathor and why did he have to fight the Great Serpent Jörmungandr in the 'Great Hall' of 'the largest of buildings ever erected'

Thor is a prominent god of Thunder in Germanic paganism who is wielding magical hammer, belt and gloves. In Norse mythology, Marvel comics and movies Thor is associated with lightning, thunder, storms, strength and the protection of mankind. The above image is representing Thor, hammering down the Great Midgard Serpent Jörmungandr with his great Hammer Mjollnir which had many marvelous qualities, including that of 'returning to the thrower like a boomerang'. Thor and the Midgard Serpent (1905) by Emil Doepler on Wikipedia, photographed and cropped by Haukurth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr

THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Study written by Bruno COURSOL (January 2021 to September 2025)

Section I • The tremendous impact the Great Pyramid had on the whole ancient World

Even though it has been very satisfying to decipher the true purpose of the Great Pyramid and the true scientific and technological nature of the Pharaonic era of ancient Egypt, the most fantastic and breathtaking discovery of the Pyramids of Cold is much more important than that, and that is the fact that everything that had been glorified by the Egyptians in the so-called Egyptian religion, was also reinterpreted throughout the ancient world: Greeks, Hebrews, Hindus, Tibetans, they all did this work of reinterpretation to create their own new mythology and religion throughout the ancient world.

Chapter 54 • Why Thor truly is the Norse reinterpretation of Hathor and why did he have to fight the Great Serpent Jörmungandr in the 'Great Hall' of 'the largest of buildings ever erected'

In summary: Thor, relentlessly hammering down the great Serpent Jörmungandr in the 'great hall' of Bilskírnir in 'the largest of buildings ever erected' are referring to the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid and its operation to create magical flash-evaporative cold through a fog of microdroplets of liquid water.

It is absolutely impossible that two so different cultures as the ancient Egyptians and the Norsemen would have come up with the exact same myth about gods relentlessly fighting in a marine environment, a Great Serpent representing evil, thunder, rumble and earthquakes if they weren't connected one way or the other. That unique connection is the Great Pyramid, the 'largest of buildings ever erected' of the Norse mythology and the most advanced piece of equipment of the ancient times.

4500 years ago, ancient Egyptians were operating the Great Pyramid to cool down chemical manufacturing of a Solvay process by creating pressurized water and flash-evaporative cooling when the rest of the whole ancient World was still living in the stone age; no wonder it has been hit hard and that myths started to appear all over this 'Old' rest of the World: it happened in New-Zealand, in Tibet, in Cambodia, all over the ancient Asia and it also happened in northern Europe with the Norsemen. Thor and probably the entire Norse mythology is only originating in the operation of the Great Pyramid of Egypt and its impactor that was relentlessly hammering down the waters of the inclined well.

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, showing the central role of the Grand Gallery which looks like some kind of 'hall', a mysterious and gigantic hall in the largest building ever erected by men.

The mention 'the Great Hall' inside 'the Largest building ever erected' about Thor's land, has to be taken literally : the Great Pyramid of Egypt was indeed the Largest building ever erected; and Norsemen couldn't but know about it. Original image of the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Egypt at Giza, built by pharaoh Khufu, from page 52 of "The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend" (1919) by Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14597229618/

54.01  Thor's 'great hall' in 'the largest building ever erected' is the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Egypt

We've already seen that Hindu mythology was a lot more willing to describe what really was happening in the Great Pyramid than ancient Egyptian themselves, and this is the same thing here with the Norse mythology. The description of the land of Thor is mentioning the 'largest building ever erected' and a 'Great Hall in the sky' : the myth is talking about the Great Pyramid and the Grand Gallery that was so high that it looked like it was in the sky.

It is important to know that Norsemen travelled to the Mediterranean sea and that they either see the Great Pyramid themselves or they've been told about it. But knowing that in ancient times, Egypt was the center of the world, it is very hard to imagine that Norsemen didn't had the opportunity and the interest to go there for business. They'd seen it and most probably they'd visited it as well: pharaohs of the time wouldn't have pass the occasion to show off and impress Norsemen with the Great Pyramid.

"Thrudvangar (‘Power Field’ or ‘Power Plain’) the land that belongs to Thor and his Hall Bliskirnir, is mentioned specifically by King Gylfi in the Gylfaginning, it is described as being the largest of buildings ever erected." https://asatruassembly.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/halls-of-the-norse-gods/

54.02  Thor's 'Power field' or 'Plains of strength' are about the hauling ramps

"Thor was thought to have ruled the sky from his land of Thrudvangar (“Power-Field” or “Plains of Strength”) where he built his great hall of Bilskírnir, a palace of 540 rooms." https://www.worldhistory.org/Thor/

Operating diagram of the Grand Gallery, showing the crucial role of the hauling plug and counterweight Hathor.

54.03  Thor is the Norse reinterpretation of Egyptian Hathor (Thor = Hathor)

At this point, there still is a problem: ok, Thor is about the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid, and he is fighting a Great Serpent. In the Pyramid, it was the impactor that was fighting the Great Serpent Apep (the pressurized waters of the well), but does that mean that Thor is the impactor? I don’t think so. The thing is that we need to consider Thor and his hammer as two different things, and when you do so, this is what you have: that is the hammer which is about the impactor, and then we have Thor himself, the one who is carrying the hammer all around. And what did we have already seen in previous Chapters: that it is Hathor, the hauling plug that was carrying the impactor all around.

In other words we have Norse Thor who is the same thing as the Egyptian goddess Hathor. How about that: Thor = Hathor! In short, Norsemen didn’t even change the name of Hathor when they had to reinterpret the goddess in their own mythology.

The famous scene of the “struggle of Heracles (left, with his club underneath) with Apollo (right)”. Apollo being known as the Greek reinterpretation of Egyptian Horus the elder through the process of 'interpretation graeca'. [illustration] https://mykingdomforadonkey.wordpress.com/heracles-and-apollo-the-struggle-for-the-delphic-tripod/

54.04  Thor and his hammer = Hathor 'Mistress of the counterweight' = Heracles and his club

So, here we have the Greek reinterpretation of the operation of the hauling plug of the Grand Gallery: Heracles is that hauling plug, with the two connecting eyes and the club underneath, because the hauling plug was also the counterweight that the two central hauling ropes needed to reach the opening of the well after they have been released into the slope of the central caisson. In short: Greek Heracles (and his heavy club) = Egyptian Hathor ‘Mistress of the counterweight’ = Norse Thor (with his heavy hammer)

Why is this important? Because of the (still hypothetical) design of that hauling plug! Certainly, the three magical items of Thor are about the different pieces of the plug; and in particular the ‘two iron gloves’ should be about the two connecting eyes, when the magical belt that 'doubled his strength' would be about the transversal part of the plug that connected the two hauling ropes together. In short:

• Thor's hammer is because Thor is the hauling plug (Hathor) that also was a counterweight for the 2 hauling ropes

• Thor's iron gloves of Thor are about the two connecting 'eyes' of the plug

• Thor's belt of strength is because the plug also had the function of tying up the two hauling ropes' ends together

"Thor had three magical items which helped him defend Asgard and Midgard: his hammer Mjollnir, his belt of strength Megingjörð (which doubled his strength when he wore it), and his great iron gloves which he needed to wield his hammer." https://www.worldhistory.org/Thor/

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, the 'largest of buildings ever erected', for flash-evaporative cooling of a (still hypothetical) Solvay-like process and the production of 100% pure and magical mummification salt natron.

54.05  The Great Pyramid of Egypt and the Vikings

What started in January 2021, as a simple pastime study on the Great Pyramid of Egypt has become something completely out of control, so to speak, and most of all, out of Egypt boundaries. We've already seen that what had been done in the pyramid has spread into all Asia and has been incorporated into the Churning of the Ocean Hindu myth, the Tibetan Prayer Wheels and the Haka ceremonial 'dance' performed by the Māori indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. But the spread wasn't contained in Asia either: everything about the operation of the Great Pyramid, the production of pressurized water resulting of the relentless hammering of the waters of the inclined well by the impactor and the creation of flash-evaporative cold fighting hellishly hot heatwaves coming from another realm, is actually the core of what we know today as the Norse mythology.

It is well known that the Norse expansion reached the Mediterranean sea and Northern Africa; it means that Norsemen either reached Egypt and the pyramids themselves or heard about them and about the Egyptian gods. Either way, Norsemen just like Asian people, obviously got dazzled by what they've discovered and used all this amazing material to forge an all new mythology of their own, centered around a brand new god Thor relentlessly hammering down a Great Serpent into water and the idea of a mist of cold originating from a well and some 11 fountain-heads.

Modern interpretations of Thor in comics and movies are depicting him moving freely at his will, in open air, but it certainly doesn't come from the Norse mythology: Thor's land is described as the 'largest building ever erected' and it is inside this very building that Thor built what had been called 'the Great Hall of Bilskírnir'.

That is in this Great Hall of the 'largest of buildings ever erected' that Thor endlessly burst forth in his goat-hauled chariot and fought the Great Serpent Jörmungandr while doing a fishing trip: the fight occurs into the waters. Let me repeat this : the fight between Thor and the Great Serpent occurred inside the largest building ever erected and it also happened into the water. In one very particular myth, Thor also has a stone lodged inside his head and he is described as relentlessly hammering down the Great Serpent with his Hammer. Because it is a magical Hammer, it kept getting back to him after being released, over and over again.

If you've already read the previous Chapters of 'The Pyramids of the Cold', it should really sounds familiar by now: the Norse mythology is another complete reinterpretation of the operation of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

Like for the Churning of the Ocean Hindu myth, Thor and his magical Hammer are originating in the operation of the inclined well of the Great Pyramid that was endlessly hammered down by the impactor; and everytime the impactor was released, the hauling Beetle towed it back up to its initial position, ready for another cycle: the impactor kept getting back into position, almost magically.

The inclined well and the crewmembers of the Grand Gallery's hauling team that were producing a fog of liquid water that evaporated and created evaporative cold, are actually referred to in another interesting part of the Norse mythology which is describing  "an icy misty world called Niflheim, with a well from which eleven rivers flowed."

These 'eleven rivers flowing from a well' could mean that the fog nozzle that would have appear like a Lotus seed head, actually had eleven 'mouth holes'. In other words, it could mean that there were 11 fog nozzles set inside the evaporative cooling passage of the Great Pyramid: 11 mouth-holes.

Guests from Overseas (1901) by Nicholas Roerich, depicting a Viking raid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion

Rorik of Dorestad, Viking ruler of Frisia 839-875. Teutonic Myth and Legend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_freedom

54.06  The Viking expansion to North Africa, Arabia, Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus

I understand that most people will think I'm gone completely crazy: I've already said that the Great Pyramid wasn't a tomb, but some kind of gigantic refrigerator and that this refrigerator made such an impression on the ancient world that the Hindus, the Tibetan and the Maoris in New-Zealand decided to appropriate the concept to make a brand new mythology of their own. And now, the Vikings! The thing is that it really did happened this way; the Great Pyramid had influenced the entire ancient world and was at the origin of dozens and dozens of myths in and outside Egyptian boundaries.

If you think that Vikings were way too far from Egypt to have been influenced in such a way, you are mistaken. Most people think that the seas are barriers to expansion, but it actually is the opposite: seas are today, and were in the ancient World as well, extraordinary ways of communication. It was slower and more dangerous, but it was all there was. Norsemen 'discovered' America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus and they travelled as far as North Africa, Arabia and Central Asia.

"Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion

Viking raids and settlements from 793 to 1066 AD: https://i.imgur.com/5tOGYjX.png

"The well-known Harald Hardrada would also serve the Byzantine emperor in Palestine as well as raiding North Africa, the Middle East as far east as Armenia, and the island of Sicily in the 11th century, as recounted in his saga in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla."

"Evidence for Norse ventures into Arabia and Central Asia can be found in runestones erected in Scandinavia by the relatives of fallen Viking adventurers. Several of these refer to men who died in "Serkland".

"Ingvar the Far-Travelled led expeditions to Iran and the Caucasus between 1036 and 1042. His travels are recorded on the Ingvar runestones. […] Around 1036, Varangians appeared near the village of Bashi on the Rioni River, to establish a permanent[clarification needed] settlement of Vikings in Georgia. The Georgian Chronicles described them as 3,000 men who had traveled from Scandinavia through present-day Russia, rowing down the Dnieper River and across the Black Sea. King Bagrat IV welcomed them to Georgia and accepted some of them into the Georgian army; several hundred Vikings fought on Bagrat's side at the Battle of Sasireti in 1042."

"Meanwhile, in the Eastern Mediterranean the Norse (referred to as Rus') were viewed more as "merchant-warriors" who were primarily associated with trade and business." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion

The Great Serpent isn't spitting venom, but something that looks like air. My guess is that it really is air, but cold air and that is this cold air produced by the Great Serpent that is responsible for the ice/snow on the foreground of the image. Hammered down by Thor, the snake is producing cold.

54.07  Both Norse and Egyptian Great Serpents are causing thunder and rumble: they have the same origin 

If in both cases, the fights with the Great Serpents are causing 'terrifying roars' and are associated with thunders and water Of course, it is because the descent of the impactor into the slope of the Grand Gallery would have cause a 'terrifying roar' because the crash into the waters of the well, would also have caused the structure to tremble and water from the well being projected like tides were created.

It is absolutely impossible that two so different cultures would have come up with the exact same myth about relentlessly fighting a Great Serpent representing evil, thunder, rumble and earthquakes if they weren't connected one way or the other. The connection is the Great Pyramid, the 'Largest building ever erected' of the Norse mythology.

• About Thor and the Norse Great Serpent Jörmungandr:

"Thor’s name was the Germanic word for thunder, and it was the thunderbolt that was represented by his hammer, the attribute most commonly associated with him.

"The majority of the tales featuring Thor, in fact, put him in conflict with a giant or with his nemesis the Midgard Serpent (Jörmungandr, the “huge monster”), a monstrous snake who coils and twists itself around the world"

"Thor  is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees…" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor

" Thor is closely associated with water in many of the myths"

"Thor was said to burst forth from his great hall in his chariot, drawn by two male goats […] The roar of thunder was the rumble of Thor's chariot's wheels across the vault of the heavens and, in another story, he is credited with creating tides." https://www.worldhistory.org/Thor/

• About the ancient Egyptian Great Serpent Apep:

"It was thought that his terrifying roar would cause the underworld to rumble… Apep's movements were thought to cause earthquakes, and his battles with Set may have been meant to explain the origin of thunderstorms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep

"Apophis is associated with earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death."

"No matter how many times Apophis was defeated and killed, he always rose again to life and attacked the sun god's boat.

"The sun was Ra's great barge which sailed through the sky from dawn to dusk and then descended into the underworld."

"In a text known as the Book of Gates, the goddesses Isis, Neith, and Serket, assisted by other deities, capture Apophis and restrain him in nets held down by monkeys, the sons of Horus, and the great earth god Geb, where he is then chopped into pieces; the next night, though, the serpent is whole again and waiting for the barge of the sun when it enters the underworld." https://www.worldhistory.org/Apophis/

Draw of the fight between the ancient Egyptian god Set and Apep, the Great Serpent of the Underworld: https://www.mygodpictures.com/apep-and-seth-imageapep-and-seth-image/

Original image of the draw: "Représentation de la barque solaire de Rê tirée par des chacals et des serpent. L'embarcation est attaquée par le serpent Apophis mais ce dernier est transpercé par Seth". Papyrus funéraire de Hérouben. Soutekh67 on Wikipedia:  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Barque_solaire_contre_Apopi.jpg

54.08  The unbroken bones of the two goats of Thor's chariot in the Great Hall

In the following part of the myth, many things are pointing to the operation of the hauling Beetle: the two goats because of the ramming metaphor and the fact that the hauling Beetle was actually designed in two connected parts, one on the eastern ramp and the other one on the opposite western ramp; the unbroken bones that are referring to the wooden structure of the half-Beetles; the roar of thunder and the rumble of the chariot moving at high speed and creating tides because of the ramming of the impactor inside the waters of the inclined well; and the Great vaulted Hall to depict the Grand Gallery where the hauling of the impactor was done.

"Thor was said to burst forth from his great hall in his chariot, drawn by two male goats – Tanngnjóstr (Tooth Gnasher) and Tanngrísnir (Snarl Tooth) – who could be killed and eaten by the god and then brought back to life the next day as long as their bones remained unbroken. The roar of thunder was the rumble of Thor's chariot's wheels across the vault of the heavens and, in another story, he is credited with creating tides." https://www.worldhistory.org/Thor/

"Hrungnir ("The Brawle") was the mightiest of all of the giants, the spirits of darkness, winter, night, and the grave, who are often the enemies of the gods. One day Hrungnir was paid a visit in Jotunheim, the homeland of the giants, by Odin. Hrungnir didn’t recognize the god at first, and instead wondered aloud who this stranger might be whose horse could ride through the air and the water, as he had seen the horse do at the god’s approach. Odin bet his head that his horse – none other than the eight-legged shamanic steed Sleipnir – could outrun any horse in Jotunheim. Hrungnir was insulted by this provocation, and straightaway accepted the bet and mounted his own horse, Gullfaxi (“Golden-Mane”).

The two raced through mud and streams, over steep, rocky hills, and between the trees in thick woodlands. Before the giant realized it, he had passed through the gates of Asgard, the home of the gods. And, of course, he still hadn’t caught up with Odin and Sleipnir. The gods, seemingly in good cheer, invited him to drink with them.

After he had become drunk, he became belligerent, and boasted that he would kill all of the gods except for the Freya and Sif, the wife of Thor. These two lovely goddesses he would carry back to Jotunheim with him. Freya alone was stout of heart enough to continue filling his horn. Next he bellowed that he would drink every last drop of the gods’ ale. The gods soon grew tired of his anger and sent for Thor, who had been elsewhere fighting other giants.

When Thor arrived and discovered the situation, he lifted his hammer and prepared to slay Hrungnir there on the spot. The bellicose (and yet, we may suspect, inwardly fearful) giant accused Thor of cowardice for intending to kill someone who was himself unarmed. “Your name would be held in far higher honor,” the giant declared, “if you will accept my challenge to a duel.” Never one to lose an opportunity to gain renown and prove his abilities, Thor accepted.

When the arranged time had arrived, Hrungnir walked to the field near Jotunheim where the duel was to be held. He wore stone armor, brandished a stone shield, and menacingly waved a whetstone, his chosen weapon, in the air above him. Suddenly, he saw lightning and heard thunder clap above him, and Thor roared onto the battlefield. Thor hurled his hammer at the giant, and the giant slung his whetstone at the god. The stone burst against Thor’s forehead and shattered into pieces, and this is the origin of all flint on earth. Thor’s hammer also struck Hrungnir’s head, but this time it was the giant’s head that was shattered.

But a piece of Hrungnir’s whetstone was lodged in Thor’s forehead. So Thor sought out the sorceress Groa ("Thriving"), who sang spells over the stone to remove it from the god’s brow. When Thor felt the stone moving, he told the sorceress many joyous things to encourage her, chiefly that he had encountered her lost husband, who would soon be home. But Groa was so overcome with emotion upon hearing this that she forgot her chants, and the rock remained lodged in Thor’s face until his death at Ragnarok." https://norse-mythology.org/tales/thors-duel-with-hrungnir/#:~:text=Thor's%20hammer%20also%20struck%20Hrungnir's,it%20from%20the%20god's%20brow

[illustration] Thor slays Hrungnir, illustration by Ludwig Pietsch (1865): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrungnir

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