The Secret Chamber of Osiris: Lost Knowledge of the Sixteen Pyramids (20 page)

ARK OF AGES

In
The Giza Prophecy,
I showed how the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx worked together to present a great, stellar timepiece—a “precession clock.” By using the stars of Orion’s Belt and presenting to us their maximum and minimum culminations at each end of the precession time line (figure 7.4), the builders were able to calibrate their time line and, with the use of the Sphinx, mark a fairly specific date on the time line relative to our present time—circa 3980 BCE.

To understand how the precession time line in figure 7.4 works, imagine that you draw a straight line on the ground about a foot or so in length. At one end of your line you place a marker, “12:00 p.m.,” and at the opposite end of your line you place another marker, “12:00 a.m.” You now have a time line of twenty-four-hours duration (i.e., twelve hours in one direction and twelve hours in the return direction).

Figure 7.4. Giza-Orion precession time line (ca. 10,460 BCE–ca. 2500
CE). Precession is moving from minimum culmination toward maximum
culmination. Image by Scott Creighton.

In front of your line you place a simple pendulum. As the pendulum swings back and forth, with each swing it will pass over every point on the time line—every hour, minute and second. And it will cover each point on the time line
twice
—once on the
outward
swing and then again on the
return
swing to complete one full cycle.

To then highlight the specific time of 6:00 a.m. on the time line, all you would need to do is place a marker of some kind at the precise midpoint of your time line, because 6:00 a.m. is precisely midway (50 percent) between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (figure 7.5). Then, simple calculations (length of time line divided by 720 minutes in half a day) will allow the time at
any
point that happened to be indicated on the time line (with the placement of a marker of some kind) to be correctly calculated. Of course, the midpoint can be 6:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. To determine whether the marked time is 6:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. requires us to know the
direction
of the pendulum swing (i.e., the motion of time).

Figure 7.5. Pendulum time line. The pendulum bob passes over each point of
the time line twice; once on the outward swing and then again on the return
swing. To know whether, for example, the midpoint is aligned to 6:00 a.m. or
6:00 p.m. requires us to know the direction of the swing.

And this is precisely what we are presented with at Giza, although, rather than marking the end points of the time line with 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (a twenty-four-hour day), the precession time line uses the Earth’s much longer precessional cycle (i.e., the 25,920-year Great Year). In this Great Year the particular orientation of the belt stars at their precessional
maximum
culmination can be likened to the 12:00 p.m. marker in our pendulum example, while the particular orientation of the belt stars at their precessional
minimum
culmination can be likened to the opposite 12:00 a.m. marker.

The analogy of the pendulum bob and its time line is precisely the same with the precession time line at Giza except that the motion of the pendulum bob is replaced by the imperceptibly slow precessional motion (pendulum swing) of the belt stars and particularly Al Nitak. During a full precessional cycle of 25,920 years (i.e., from maximum to minimum culmination and then back again), each point along the Giza precession time line will correspond to a particular position of Orion’s Belt within its actual precessional cycle. And just like the pendulum bob, when the belt stars reach one of their two culmination points, they will appear to momentarily stop and then begin to move in the
opposite direction.
This change of precessional direction of the belt stars means that the precessional motion will then retrace its 12,960-year journey back along the Giza precession time line (the
return
swing of the pendulum), thereby corresponding with each point along the precession time line a
second
time.

In our example of the precession time line in figure 7.4, we see that the Sphinx is aligned to the significant midpoint of the precession time line at circa 3980 BCE (ca. 3980 BCE being the most
recent
midpoint date of Orion’s precessional half-cycle). But as can be seen in the pendulum example (figure 7.5), the pendulum bob in one full day passes the six o’clock position
twice
(as it does with
all
time positions on the time line). How then do we know if this six o’clock is indicating 6:00 p.m. or if it is twelve hours previous; that is, 6:00 a.m.? Similarly, how do we know if this significant midpoint on the Giza time line that the Sphinx is aligned to is indicating circa 3980 BCE and not the
previous
midpoint date of circa 16,940 BCE (one half-cycle of 12,960 years previous; that is, 3,980 + 12,960 years; figure 7.6)?

And therein lies the problem; how can we actually know which of the previous midpoint alignments the builders are actually referring to? Does the midpoint indicate—allegorically speaking—6:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. (figure 7.5)? Was the Sphinx midpoint alignment first made to indicate the time circa 3980 BCE (the most recent midpoint alignment date; figure 7.4), thereby suggesting the structures were created around that time, or is the Sphinx midpoint alignment indicating the half-cycle
before
circa 3980 BCE (i.e., ca. 16,940 BCE; figure 7.6), thereby suggesting the pyramids are of much greater antiquity? In short, is the most recent midpoint alignment (ca. 3980 BCE) the
outward
or the
return
swing of the precession pendulum?

Figure 7.6. Giza-Orion precession time line (ca. 23,420 BCE–ca. 10,460
BCE). Precession is moving from maximum culmination toward
minimum culmination. Image by Scott Creighton
(derivative of original by Gary Osborn).

Alas, there is no easy way to tell. Without knowing the initial direction time was flowing when the Giza precession time line was created, we are reduced to guesswork.

Unless, of course, the builders somehow found a clever and logical way of encoding the direction that time was flowing into the layout of this great precession timepiece at the time of its creation at Giza. But is such a means possible? Could the architect have found a way to encode such a crucial piece of information into the Giza precession time line?

There is a possibility.

The reader may recall from chapter 3 how the three main pyramids at Giza may have been designed using the geo-stellar fingerprint of the Orion’s Belt stars (figure 3.3a–d, pages 66 and 68). We see that the starting point for this design
begins
by extending an initial line from the G1/ Al Nitak center to the G2/Al Nilam center. It is reasonable to suggest then that G1 represents the
starting
point of the full precessional cycle (i.e., the initial outward swing of the precessional pendulum), because the design of the Giza pyramids commences from G1/Al Nitak.

Conversely, if the flow of time had been moving from the
opposite
end of the Giza precession time line (i.e., from G3 toward G1; figure 7.4), then the geo-stellar fingerprint would have commenced with a line from the G3/Mintaka center to the G2/Al Nilam center, thereby creating three pyramid bases of very different shapes and proportions to what we actually have at Giza today (figure 7.7).

This is to say that commencing the design of the geo-stellar fingerprint of Orion’s Belt with an initial line drawn from the Al Nitak center to the Al Nilam center (figure 3.3a–d) (i.e., from the maximum [G1] to minimum [G3] culmination) will produce—to a high degree of accuracy—the relative proportions of the main Giza pyramids, thereby suggesting that the Orion geo-stellar fingerprint serves to “lock in” the direction in which time was initially flowing along the precession time line at the time of its creation.

In summary, the geo-stellar fingerprint of Orion’s Belt, in providing three bases whose relative proportions are dependent on the direction from which the design commences, provides us with a very clever and foolproof means of determining from which end of the Giza precession time line the outward pendulum swing commenced; the direction of the geo-stellar design (starting at G1/Al Nitak) may have been used in order to present to us the direction of the time flow (i.e., from G1/Al Nitak toward G3/Mintaka).

Figure 7.7. (A) By commencing the geo-stellar fingerprint technique by
extending a line from Mintaka (top star) to Al Nilam (middle star) of
Orion’s Belt, we end up with three bases of varying dimensions.
(B) These bases in no way agree with the relative proportions
of the three square bases of the Giza pyramids.

Thus, if we are to commence the outward swing of time on the Giza precession time line from the direction of G1, then, logically, this implies that G1’s three queens represent the
previous
maximum culmination of 23,420 BCE since the
next
maximum culmination of Orion’s Belt (i.e., when the flow of time on the Giza precession time line will change direction again and move from G1 toward G3) hasn’t yet occurred and won’t occur until circa 2500 CE—a little under five hundred years from now. And it logically follows that if the Giza precession time line is calibrated by the two culminations of Orion’s Belt of circa 23,420 BCE (maximum) and circa 10,460 BCE (minimum) then the Sphinx is aligned to the midpoint of the precession time line, circa 16,940 BCE (as opposed to the
next
midpoint alignment some 12,960 years later, circa 3980 BCE).

And perhaps this is also why this configuration of pyramids at Giza produces the Great Giza Triangle (figure 2.2) that points
away
from Khufu’s pyramid (and its queens’ maximum culmination markers)
toward
Menkaure’s pyramid (and its queens’ minimum culmination markers), thereby suggesting again that the direction or outward swing of time on the Giza precession time line was initially moving from maximum culmination toward minimum culmination, thus supporting the idea that the outward swing or starting point of the precessional cycle was circa 23,420 BCE.

Another important point that should be noted here is the fact that the Sphinx, as noted already, is aligned precisely to the significant midpoint of the precession time line. If this alignment of the Sphinx to the midpoint of the Giza precession time line was created to indicate that some significant event occurred around this midpoint time, then we have to ask, just how likely is it that a significant event just happened to occur at the precise midpoint of the precession time line as indicated by the Sphinx? Is this just some extraordinary coincidence, that a significant event should occur at the precise midpoint on the time line, or is there perhaps a more rational explanation for such a correlation?