Chapter 38 Chapter 40 The Secret Remaining in Egypt

On the evening of November 26, 1922, archaeologist Howard Cater, together with his financial patron Sir Carnarvon, entered the eighteenth dynasty that ruled Egypt from 1352 BC to 1343 BC. Tomb of a young pharaoh.This pharaoh was Tutankhamun who later became famous all over the world. Two days later, on the night of the 28th, Carter pried open the "treasure house" in the pharaoh's tomb, and found that it was full of gold treasures, and the end of the treasure house was connected to another room.The most amazing thing is that in this other room, although it is full of dazzling and noble treasures, there is not even a door, only at the entrance, there is a statue of the god Anubis with a jackal head , lifelike, with erect ears, squatting like a wild dog, with its front feet stretched out, resting on a gold-rimmed wooden box, acting as a guardian.The wooden box is approximately 4 feet long, 3 feet high, and 2 feet wide.

●Egyptian Museum, Cairo, December 1993 Although the statue of Anubis, the "jackal god" used for sacrifice, has its feet still on the wooden box inlaid with gold, its shape has been stored in the glass display case of the museum.I stood outside the display case and stared at it for a long time, and found that it was carved out of whitewashed wood blocks. The black body was decorated with gold, silver, alabaster, calcite, obsidian and other treasures with very fine inlay work. .The silver decorations embedded near the eyes are especially a finishing touch, making Anubis feel not only sharp-eyed, but also deeply alert.Between strong ribs and soft muscular lines, Anubis' strength, energy and grace are clearly expressed.

While feeling the mysterious and strong power released from the Anubis wood carving, I couldn't help but think of the myths about precession that exist all over the world.Over the past few years, I have spent considerable energy studying precession and mythology.In mythology, the existence of dogs cannot be ignored. It makes people feel that behind these stories, dogs represent a special meaning, and I suspect that the symbols of dogs, wolves, jackals, etc. are exactly what the ancient mythologists wanted to lead Our clues into a lost treasure trove of scientific knowledge. And I believe that the myth of Osiris also belongs to one of the treasures in this mysterious treasure house of scientific knowledge①.The myth of Osiris is actually not a myth, because it has gone beyond the scope of myth.Ancient Egypt compiled it into a mysterious drama and performed it regularly every year, making it one of the most important "plotted" literary works handed down from prehistoric times.As stated in Part 5, many numbers implied in the myth to express the precession movement are not only very precise, but also highly consistent, and it is absolutely impossible to make them up by chance.In addition, it is no coincidence that every mystery drama has the jackal god as the protagonist.In these plays, the Jackal often plays the role of Osiris' spiritual leader, leading Osiris on his journeys through the underworld.In addition, the priests of ancient Egypt always regarded Anubis as the "guardian of the secrets and sacred writings" (guardian of the secrets acredwritings), which must have some great significance.In the wooden carving Anubis in the Egyptian Museum, on the edge of the wooden box on which the front feet are built, there is a line of carved hieroglyphs, which read: "Enter the secret door"②.In addition, some people translate it as "he who is above the secret" or "the guardian of the secret".

But does Egypt hold any secrets? After 100 years of excavation by archaeologists, are there any amazing secrets hidden under the sands of this ancient land? Bowfar's star and West's stone In 1993, amazing new discoveries appeared in Egypt, making the world aware that we still have much to learn about ancient Egypt.It wasn't some persistent archaeologists who led us to this latest discovery, but a layman: a Belgian civil engineer named Robert Bauval.Baufar was very interested in astronomical research.He found a connection between the sky and the pyramids at Giza, which was not expected by ancient Egyptologists who only focused on the ground and ignored the sky.

Bofar found that the three stars of Orion could be seen from the southern sky of Kesha, but the three stars were not aligned in a straight line.If we draw a straight line based on the two stars below, ALNitak and ALNilam, the third star, Mintaka, must fall on the left side of the straight line, that is, on the eccentric East position. The arrangement of the three mysterious pyramids on the Kesha Heights on the ground happens to be exactly the same as the arrangement of the three stars.Pofar found that if one looked down at the Gisha monuments from the air, one would find that the Great Pyramid of Khufu corresponds to Nitak, the second pyramid of Kafre corresponds to Nilan, and the third pyramid of Mancala corresponds to Nitak. Compared with the other two pyramids, it is slightly easterly, forming a complete Orion constellation composition.

Are the pyramids at Giza really arranged according to the constellations?I know that some of Baufar's later research results have been fully affirmed by mathematicians and astronomers, proving that his intuition is correct.He demonstrated (as described in more detail in Chapter 49 of this book) that the correspondence between the three pyramids and the three stars of the constellation Orion was incredibly accurate, not only in perfect position, but also in the three stars. Different luminosities are represented by the size of the pyramid.Moreover, this sky map can also be extended to the north and south, including other structures on the Kesha Heights with great accuracy.However, what is really surprising about Pofar's astronomical calculations is that although from an astronomical point of view, the Great Pyramid itself has some connection with the pyramid era, the architectural configuration on the Kesha Heights is not recorded in 2500 BC. The Fourth Dynasty around 1900, but - only possible - the sky around 10450 BC.

The purpose of my trip to Egypt is to visit Gesha with Bofar and visit the details of his constellation theory.At the same time, in the distant ancient times more than 10,000 years ago, if there had been a human society, what would it be like to be able to accurately detect the orientation of the constellations and plan the Gisha historical sites from a mathematical and comprehensive perspective? Society, I also want to know his opinion on this aspect. In addition, I also want to take advantage of this visit to Egypt to interview John West, another researcher who challenged the orthodox ancient Egyptology.West, who was born in the American academic circle, has recently found some very clear evidence, proving that as early as 10,000 BC, the Nile Valley had a high degree of civilization.Just like the astronomical materials that Pofar has mastered, there are actually quite a lot of materials that can prove the existence of ancient civilizations, but none of them can attract the attention of the orthodox ancient Egypt scholars.West doesn't think experts failed to notice the material, not because they didn't find it in the first place.They've obviously found and seen the sources, they just haven't been able to understand and interpret them properly.

The evidence held by West is mainly on some important architectural monuments, including the famous Sphinx, the river bank temple in Kesha, and the mysterious building Osirien in Abydos, the ancient capital of Upper Egypt.It has been scientifically verified that many traces of erosion by rainwater have been found on these buildings standing in the desert.Judging from the erosion, erosion and wear of the stones, the amount of rainfall at that time should not be small.In the Gisha area, the period when there was such a large amount of rainwater was the end of the Ice Age, that is, around 11,000 BC.

A British subject research reporter wrote: The existence of West can be said to be the realization of the most feared nightmare of scholars, because he put forward a coherent theory after careful thinking from a perspective that the academic circle has never considered.He collected a wealth of information, leaving the academic world with no room for refutation, and forced the academic circles into desperation.At this point, the academic community doesn't know how to react, so it can only adopt an attitude of indifference, hoping that West's theory will disappear as a result...but it will not disappear.

Despite the disapproval of our "competent Egyptologists," West's new theory has the support of another branch of the scientific family—geologists.Dr. Robert Schoch, a professor of geology at Boston University, played an important role in confirming West's reckoning of the Sphinx.Dr. Xiu Qi's statement also won the unanimous support of 300 peers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in 1992. As a result, a fierce debate was launched in private between geologists and ancient Egypt scholars.Although few scholars have made public statements except for West, this debate is related to whether the understanding of the process of human civilization will be completely subverted.

According to West: In the past, we have always believed that the development of human civilization is a linear process-from simple-minded cavemen to smart people who can make hydrogen bombs and squeeze out fancy toothpaste tubes.But if we can prove that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than archaeologists think, even thousands of years older than the Egyptian dynasty, then we can be sure that the recurring theme of the legend - in the distant In the ancient times, there was a very mature civilization-it has its authenticity. After four years of investigative travel and research, I was very surprised to find that those ancient legends may not only be legends, but facts.Because of this, I decided to go back to Egypt and meet West and Bofar.What surprised me the most was that the investigations and researches between West and Pofar, which were not related on the surface, could actually be completely combined4. From two different perspectives of astronomy and geology, they respectively found Fingerprints of a lost civilization.This civilization may or may not have grown out of the Nile Valley, but it is certain that it appeared on Earth as early as 11,000 BC. Jackals Anubis, the guardian of secrets, the god of the burial chamber, the jackal-headed god who opens the way for the dead, the guide and partner of Osiris... At 5 pm, the Cairo Museum is almost closed.Just as Sansa says she's had enough of taking photos of the dull wooden statues, we hear the guards downstairs whistling and clapping their hands away the last of the tourists.Tourists come and go, but on the second floor of this century-old building, Anubis maintains its quiet, vigilant, and ready-to-go posture day and night for thousands of years.Everything stops at the origin. We walked out of the dimly lit museum and into the still blinding sunlight of Cairo's bustling Tahrir Square. Even when I walked out of the museum, my mind was still on Anubis.The role of Anubis in mythology is the guide of the soul and the protector of the secret volume, and is very close to another god-"God of Opening" Upaot.The name Upuot, which is also symbolized by the jackal, itself has the meaning of "pathbreaker"⑤.Since the most ancient times, these two divine dogs have had a deep relationship with Abydos.The god of Abydos, DhentiAmentiu (DhentiAmentiu, literally means "the original Westerner"), is also symbolized by dogs and wolves.It usually rests on a black candle holder. These mysterious and strongly symbolic dogs and wolves appear again and again. What does it mean?What secrets can we unlock from here?These questions are worth exploring, because the Oxilien building at Abydos, according to West's judgment, may be much older than archaeologists believe.Besides, I have already arranged to go to Luthor in Upper Egypt, a town less than 200 kilometers away from Abydos, to visit West in a few days.I originally planned to fly from Cairo, but later found that not only can I go there by car, but I can also visit several ancient monuments along the way. Our driver, Mohamed Walili, was still waiting for us in the underground car park next to Tahiril Square.Hua Lili, a burly, gentle personality and quite old, often drives his own Peugeot taxi on weekdays, waiting in line in front of the MenaHouse hotel in Kesha.After we became friends with him, we took his car every time we came to Egypt.We spent a little time negotiating with him.There are many things to consider first, such as the road to Abydos and Luxor, which is where radical terrorists often hang out.Finally, we negotiated a price and arranged to leave early the next morning. note ① For example, see David, "Introduction to Abydos Religious Ceremony", p. 121. Rosalie David, AGuide to Religious Ritualat Abydos, Aris and Phillips, Warminster, 1981, inparticular p.121. ② Kete Gianni, "Pharaoh's Egypt Seen in the Cairo Museum", p. 118. Jean Pierre Corteggiani, The Egypt of the Pharaohs at the Cairo Museum, Scala Publications, London, 1987, p. 118． ③That is, the 1992 debate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: How old is the Sphinx? American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, 1992, Debate: How Oldis the Sphinx? ④West and Buffal conducted their unique investigation and research by classification without knowing each other until the author introduced them to each other. ⑤ "The Gods of Egypt", Part 2, p. 264. Wallis Budge, E. A, The God of the Egyptians, Methuen & Co., London, 1904.