On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> That's more of a defense against tomb robbers I think.
>
But the Great Pyramid, for one, was never used as a tomb, and several
pharaohs built multiple pyramids. The pyramids had one obvious use:
as geodetic markers to relocate boundary lines after each annual
flood. Keynes also pointed to what he considered an important
macroeconomic function. Astronomical and magical uses remain matters
for speculation.
> --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> what is the Giza pyramid
> complex if not an attempt, after a fashion, to exert human will on the
> universe?
Shane Mage
>
> "This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos