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The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid, by C. Staniland Wake, [1882], at sacred-texts.com


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


CHAPTER I

 

THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY

 

 

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THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH

1

THEORY OF INSPIRED ORIGIN OF GREAT PYRAMID

2

DATE OF ERECTION

6

ASTRONOMICAL EXPLANATION OF STRUCTURE

7

ASTROLOGICAL THEORY OF ORIGIN

13

PRIMARY OBJECT RELIGIOUS

18


CHAPTER II

 

EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

 

SUPPOSED INABILITY OF ANCIENT PEOPLES TO DESIGN THE GREAT PYRAMID

20

EARLIEST EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

24

DIFFERENCES OF INTERNAL CONSTRUCTION

25

EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION UNDER FOURTH DYNASTY

27

EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION AT FOUNDATION OF MONARCHY

32

CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLIER EGYPTIANS

35

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CHAPTER III

 

THE TOMB THEORY

 

 

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TESTIMONY OF GREEK WRITERS

38

COMPARISON WITH FACTS

42

THE TOMB OF CHEOPS

45

USE OF PYRAMIDS AS TOMBS

48

ABSENCE OF RELICS EXPLAINED

50


CHAPTER IV

 

THE RELIGIOUS THEORY

 

THE GREAT PYRAMID CONSIDERED AS A TEMPLE

54

THE SABÆANS AND THE PYRAMIDS

56

SETH AND OSIRIS

59

SETH THE GOD OF THE SEMITES AND THE HYKSOS

60

ASSOCIATION OF SETH WITH THE GREAT PYRAMID

66


CHAPTER V

 

SETH AND SERPENT WORSHIP

 

THE GOD OF WISDOM

70

IDEAS CONNECTED WITH THE SERPENT

72

SETH IDENTIFIED WITH TYPHON

77

ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SERPENT

81

THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE DELUGE

83

AGE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

85

THE PYRAMID AND THE CONSTELLATIONS

87

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NOTE.

 

ON THE COFFER IN THE "KING'S CHAMBER"

92


APPENDIX I.

 

DR. SPRENGER ON THE CONNECTION OF SETH AND HERMES WITH THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH

94


APPENDIX II.

 

MASOUDI'S ACCOUNT OF THE ERECTION, ETC., OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

98

Human skulls unearthed during the excavations of the Temple of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh.
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Human skulls unearthed during the excavations of the Temple of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh.


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