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Summary: Hancock, Bauval, stop at the door to Ancient Celestial Roots
Review: After thirty years of research into ancient wisdom that has been recorded in the stars, I have come to understand the methods by which our mythologies are transported to the stars. What Hancock is expert at doing is taking his readers to the door of ancient wisdom. Through Bauval he adds technical expertise (Bauval gains literary genius.) to the potential for understanding. But neither of these or any other writers acknowledge the obvious. All of our constellations were named in antiquity. Since Roman times we have continued to decimate the skys, until today, scientific understanding avoids the asterisms the ancients acknowledged. Hancock and Bauval simply tip toe through the tulips, compared to the wealth of knowledge that is written in the celestial garden above. Yet, their dance on their toes is a great move toward better understanding. SU Internatioanl has published a thoruogh description of the ancient asterisms that include all the present constellations, and many that have been lost or destroyed
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Summary: 10,500 BC plus 25,920 = Zep Tepi
Review: This is a wonderful book, as so many of the reviews are saying. But I believe the authors have missed the Zep Tepi, or First Time, by 25,920 years--that this occured in the *previous* age of Leo. The software used to re-create the
night sky of 10,500 BC can only go back in time
30,000 years, we are told. When the length of the dynasties of the Shemsu Hor (13,420 years), the Neteru (23,200 years) are added to the generally accepted beginning of the first
dynasty (3,000 BC), that takes us back to 39,620 BC.
The previous Age of Leo was from 36,880 to
34,720 BC. So this
"First Time" meshes very nicely with the total dynastic years
mentioned in the Pyramid Texts.
I'd sure like to have a look at that night sky of
36,420 BC!
David Lamond (davelam@fast.net
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Summary: An incredible new look at a very complex puzzle
Review: The research and the thought processes go beyond the norm, but this book is one of the finest I've read in a long time. From the star maps to the chambers inside the pyramids, this book makes me wonder why these monoliths were designed. I think the most exciting material concerning the pyramids is going to come into being in the next year or two. Definitely a book to be read for those who have any interest in Egypt or early civilizations
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Summary: An exelent example of Critical Thinking
Review: This is the third book of Mr. Hancock's that I have read. He uses critical thinking throughout his book's. He is very open minded but points out the possibility that there are other answers to already answered questions. He point to other lines of thought about the real age of mankind. A great book
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Summary: fascinating and thought-provoking inquiry of Sphinx's origin
Review: Every schoolchild is familiar with the pyramids of Egypt and their enigmatic guardian, the Great Sphinx. Though few of us are likely to have the opportunity to visit these monuments first-hand, they constitute part of mankinds' acknowledged cultural heritage, whether the situs of that culture be Cairo or Cambodia or Cleveland. Since antiquity, men have wondered at the provenance, and purpose, of these marvelous structures. Robert Bauval, whose 1994 "Orion Mystery" (co-written with Adrian Gilbert)presaged the present work, has teamed-up with the indefatigable Graham Hancock to produce a new, intriguing hypothesis regarding the origin of the sphinx and pyramids. While there is no shortage of material, dating back though the centuries, purporting to explain the function of these monuments, only in the past generation has computer technology rendered it possible to definitively establish that the sphinx and pyramids represent deliberate, calculated efforts to reproduce, at Giza, ancient sideral phenomena. According to Bauval and Hancock, geologic evidence alone indicates that the sphinx itself is vastly older than is generally supposed. While the pyramids themselves may indeed date from the "pyramid age" generally assigned by Egyptologists, astroarchaeology provides compelling evidence that their spacial arrangement represents a model of the heavens as it existed in prehistoric times: 8,000 years before the "pyramid age." According to the authors, knowledge of the ancient skies was conveyed to the actual pyramid builders, through generations, via an enlightened brotherhood of initiates. Evidence of this primordial brotherhood abounds, according to the authors, in the so-called "Pyramid Texts" and other contemporary sources. It is only in the context of astronomy, however, that these various writings are rendered intelligible. Readers of Hancock's 1995 "Fingerprints of the Gods" will find they are already familiar with much of the material in the present work. Because "The Message of the Sphinx" devotes itself exclusively to the pyramids and sphinx, however, the authors have the luxury of detailing their findings relative to those monuments. A basic knowledge of astronomy would prove helpful in following Bauval's and Hancock's arguments, but the book is replete with diagrams that enable the reader to visualize the points being made. There are also several black and white photographs, one of which shows a mysterious door, here-to-fore concealed, in a shaft leading from the "Queen's Chamber" in the Great Pyramid. Anyone familiar with the work of Bauval and Hancock knows that their material is meticulously researched, copiously footnoted, and compelling presented. Happily, "The Message of the Sphinx" is without the dubious scholarship and sensationalism that too often characterizes books that offer an alternative position to the prevailing orthodoxy. I highly recommend it to any thoughtful reader.
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Summary: The amazing star map of Giza.
Review: John West, Robert Schoch, Mark Lehner, Zahi Hawass. Who are these people? What role does the Edger Cayce Foundation play in pyramidal studies? This book documents the views, opinions, and surpisingly, the politics that lays behind the research concerning the origin and purpose of the monuments at Giza.
Are the pyramids burial chambers only, or were they built with a much greater purpose in mind? A purpose that many Egytologists and much of the Egytian citizenry dismiss as having no basis in fact. The time may be soon when mankind will know the truth about the age, origin, and purpose of the great monuments of Giza. Many fear this day of discovery for it may hold truths about the very origin of mankind. Truths that may shake the fundations of humanity and cause us all to re-evaluate who and from whence we came
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Summary: Stepping back into the reality of our cultural past
Review: A coming together of Fingerprints of the Gods and the Orion Mystery, Hancock and Bauval
are making the point that much of what school and so-called experts tell us
about the cultural past of the world is looking more and more unrealistic. Great complications, such as Sphinx symbolism and origin (subject of this book), lead us
to recognize that the simplistic, chronological, from savage to civilized status of human society,
are not valid and we must think again.
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Summary: A FASCINATING NEW ANGLE ON EGYPTOLOGY
Review: How old is the Sphinx? The question, and it's paradigm-busting potential for Egyptology, and history as a whole, is the subject of this compelling book.
€ Robert Bauval, a Belgian engineer, and Graham Hancock, former East Africa correspondent for the Observer, have authored previous bestsellers on archaeological mysteries of the ancient world. Here they combine forces to question the conventional wisdom regarding Ancient Egypt, and step bravely into the academic no-man's land that lies between history and prehistory.
€ It was Bauval who made the discovery that the Great Pyramids are exact likenesses, in position and scale, of the three stars in the belt of Orion. Hancock, for his part, claims that the precisely engineered structures of the Gizeh plateau are repositories of complex astronomical data. In The Message of The Sphinx the authors conclude that the Ancient Egyptians were heir to a civilization much greater and older than their own. € The most compelling evidence in this regard was announced in 1993, when evidence was presented at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought. € This haunting monument, the authors assert, with its refashioned, possibly once-leonine head, was created in 10,500 BC. The creators of the Sphinx were survivors of a primordial catastrophe that wiped out most of their civilization.
€ Hancock and Bauval point to the "followers of Horus" in ancient texts as dim memories of these survivors, and suggest the ancient Egyptians were inheritors -- not originators -- of their complex cosmology. The pyramids were completed at a later date than the Sphinx, and the authors present the extraordinary possibility that these enormous stuctures (particularly the great pyramid of Khufu, with its complex galleys and passages) were not meant as tombs at all, but as architectural maps of a region of the heavens known as the "duat", centered in Orion: the cosmogenic realm where souls are spawned and return upon death. The pyramids were used, they theorize, for ritualistic reenactments of astronomical events. € The author's labours have made for a mind-bending read, though Hancock and Bauval's ultimate vindication awaits the archaeologist's spade.
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Summary: As mind-blowing as it can get.
Review: If you understand the basics of astronomy, you can now understand the Giza Necropolis (pyramid/sphinx complex).
The ancient egyptian texts are the software, the pyramids and sphinx are the hardware. Hancock presents a compelling
story on how and what he (et al.) has deciphered. His presentation is logical and concise, yet reads like a mystery
novel. Critial reading for the archeoastronomer in all of us.
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Summary: Fantastic! A must for everyone who love mysterious Egypt!
Review: This book contains an old treasure map which the mankind
can't use until the authors have done their part, namely to write the next book(s) about this subject. It is absolutely
incredible the way they are unravelling the mysteries of
prehistoric Egypt. It makes you believe that some thousands
of years BC there has been another high civilization with the knowledge and technology to plan and build this magnificient pyramids and especially "The Sphinx".
The title of the book is "Keeper of Genesis:A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind". The Sphinx is still the Keeper
of Genesis, and I look forward to the next book(s)!!
If you haven't read this book, you have missed this years main event!
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