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SECRETS IN THE STARS
According to
author-astronomer Robert Bauval, the answer to the ancient secret of Giza
is in the Stars. When Robert Bauval came
to realize, one starry night in the Arabian desert, that the three
pyramids of Giza were arranged on the ground to replicate the arrangement
of the three stars in Orion's belt, ancient astronaut theorization was the
farthest thing from his mind. "Je tiens l'affaire", he shouted excitedly
when he understood the connection, deliberately mimicking Champollion's
exclamation when he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone. At the time of his
discovery, Bauval was a construction engineer working in the Middle East.
In his subsequent book, The Orion Mystery, co-authored with Adrian
Gilbert, Bauval demonstrated convincingly that the ancient Egyptians were
sophisticated astronomers, and that their religious beliefs and practices
were far more profound and esoteric than previously believed. His thesis
that the entire area of lower Egypt was laid out in emulation of the
heavens is revolutionary, giving new meaning to the famous dictum of
Hermes/Thoth, As above, so below. Furthermore he too, as had John Anthony
West, Graham Hancock, and Edgar Cayce, pushed the frontiers of high
Egyptian civilization way back to
10.500 B.C.
Bauval was born in
Alexandria, Egypt to European parents, and has retained a fascination with
his native country which eventually nagged him to find the real truth
about ancient Egypt. Dissatisfaction with conventional Egyptology was
evidently lurking in the back of his mind when, one day in 1979, at
Heathrow Airport in London, he picked up a copy of Robert Temple's The
Sirius Mystery. Temple showed that the African Dogon tribe had extremely
ancient religious traditions centring around the Sirius star system. To
Bauval, this suggested a connection with the ancient Egyptian traditions
concerning Sirius, as well as the Orion star system. Thus began an
investigative odyssey that culminated in one of the most important
archeological discoveries of the 20th Century. Many believe that before
all of the ramifications of his breakthrough have played out, the stage
will be set for a totally new understanding of our origins.
THE SPHINX IN THE SKY
We met Bauval in July at
an A.R.E. conference in Virginia Beach sub-titled Atlantis Rising, (purely
coincidental). He was the featured speaker. We asked about the debate over
2.500 B.C. vs. 10.500 B.C. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that
the pyramids of Giza were built, physically built, in 2.500 B.C. We can't
escape that. The area is carbon-dated. But the knowledge of building it
was known long, long before. I think that what you're looking at is a
blueprint that finally took shape. And the blueprint originated in the
period of 10.500 B.C. But consonant with the evidence cited by John
Anthony West, Bauval believes that the Sphinx was indeed carved out in
10.500 B.C. However, while West arrived at this date geologically, Bauval
used astronomy.
Astronomical
correlations are at the very heart of Bauval's discoveries and theories.
As an amateur astronomer, he has delved deeply into the connections, but
many of them are obvious. In fact, it is nothing short of astounding that
for over two hundred years now, Egyptologists have avoided the stellar
implications of ancient Egyptian beliefs and architecture, when it appears
that their entire religious apparatus was based on the constellations. In
his book, Bauval blames this on the long-time domination of Egyptology by
one man, American James Henry Breasted, who adopted a monotheistic solar
explanation which threw the star theory into disrepute.
Astrologers have long
known about the 25.600-year cycle commonly referred to as the Precession
of the Equinoxes. Every 2.160 years, the vernal point, moving along the
ecliptic, enters a new sign of the Zodiac, going backwards, due to the
wobble of the Earth. According to Manly Hall and others, each change of
sign ushers in a new religio-philosophical dispensation. In The Orion
Mystery, Bauval makes the bold claim that the ancient Egyptian
astronomer-priests knew about precession as early as 10.500 B.C., which
was the time that the constellation of Orion was at its lowest point on
the meridian, and therefore started its upward cycle.
This would be
incredible, if true, because it means they would have had to carefully
observe star movements, without telescopes, for thousands of years. The
importance of Orion to the ancient Egyptians is, of course, well known
from the Pyramid Texts, as the home of Sahu, or Osiris in the sky. In our
conversation, Bauval elaborated on this, pointing out how precession was
used. At 10.500 B.C. when the constellation of Orion is at the low point,
it also happens to be crossing the meridian at the time of the vernal
equinox. On that day, the vernal point would be due East. That immediately
draws your attention to the Sphinx, because the Sphinx looks due East. And
when you investigate the position of that vernal point at 10.500 B.C.
you'll find that it is exactly between Virgo and Leo. The constellation
was performing its first heliacal rising. This means that the Age of Leo
was just beginning. Now, this coincidence is a million to one. It's luring
us to consider that the image of the Sphinx is a symbol of the lion in the
sky, Leo. The message is... look at the Age of Leo.'
So, according to Bauval,
the Sphinx was built to establish the advent of the Age of Leo as a marker
in precessional time, and to identify it for future ages as what the
Pyramid Texts call the first time. Then, says Bauval, 8.000 years later,
the pyramid builders gave us further evidence that the plan was first
hatched at 10.500 B.C. The arrangement of the Giza pyramids with respect
to the Nile doesn't quite match the pattern in the stars and milky way at
2.500 B.C. But if the star map is rotated about 30 degrees to conform to
the stellar pattern at 10.500 B.C., it matches perfectly. Bauval says, My
conclusion about Giza is that we're certain that it is a collective marker
of Leo. They're both linked, but if you look at it in 2.500 B.C. it
doesn't match. You're looking at the wrong time. The time that it's
telling you to look at is 10.500 B.C. Now, how you explain that it took
shape at 2.500 B.C. is another matter. But, it did.
ROADMAP FOR A TIME
JOURNEY
In his book Bauval
points out that the importance of the Pyramid Texts, the oldest extant
religious writings on the planet, has been trivialized by Breasted and the
Egyptology establishment. But, properly understood, he says, they provide
the key to the symbology and purpose of Giza. He says, There is a link
between the pyramid texts and the pyramids, i.e., what one is saying
textually, the other is saying architecturally, and we've proved this
beyond any doubt. We begin to understand that the Pyramid Texts are not
mumbo-jumbo at all. The message tells us that we are dealing with a dual
landscape, two horizons. That is why the Egyptologists have missed out in
finding the Sphinx in the Pyramid Texts, because the Texts speak of the
Sphinx and the pyramids in cosmic terms. When they mention Orion, they
mean the pyramids. When they mention horacty, they mean the Sphinx. Once
you understand this trick you can make the correlations from the cosmic to
the terrestrial.
Once these masked
references in the Pyramid Texts are deciphered, they can be seen as a sort
of travel guide, or triptik, for Horus, the dead king, as he makes his way
back to rejoin his father Osiris, in the stars. But his journey is not
only through space. According to Bauval, it is also a time journey. What
we've recently discovered is that in Egypt in 10.500 B.C. there was a
group of people called The Followers of Horus, who were supposed to be
ancestors of the kings, and their job was literally to follow Horus as he
changed position, in order to know exactly where they were in time, in
order to be able to return. The Pyramid Texts speak of the time of the
original Osiris, and of the original Horus. They believed that there is a
lineage of kings that emerges from this first time, and that the king is
supposed to return back to his origins in time. So basically the king uses
the Followers of Horus to travel back. And the flux that he travels on is
precession. That's why precession is built into this ancient architecture.
They give us the date 2.500 B.C. with the Great Pyramid shaft pointing to
Orion's belt, and then they tell us travel back in time.'
A SCIENCE OF IMMORTALITY
So far, Bauval had given
us some fascinating new insights into the ancient Egyptian star religion,
but had drawn no inferences. But at this point, the interview took an
unexpected turn, as Bauval entered some new and daring territory. We asked
him what sort of people could have designed such an elaborate and complex
plan stretching out over 8.000 years with the confidence that it would
come to fruition. We're looking at a scientific way of thinking that is
totally alien to us. It seems that we have a device that was built to work
with time. It's a sort of calendar that these people, the Followers of
Horus, built in order to be able to trigger certain events in the future.
One of the things that they knew would happen, and they timed it, was the
Pyramid Age.
The Egyptians believed
that certain individuals came from a divine origin, and these individuals
had the ability to return to where they came from. There is something that
we haven't yet quite understood about our capabilities. Because we feel
uncomfortable with it, we use words like spirit, soul, intellect,
whatever. But there is something about us that may possibly be able to
travel in time or in space. Now these people seemed to know about it, and
they went to a lot of trouble to create a condition that somehow allowed
this to happen. We call it ritual, we call it initiation. You can call it
what you like. But they seemed to think that it was only possible to
achieve it through a certain condition when the harmonics were right, when
everything was right. It has something to do with stone; it has something
to do with scale; it has something to do with a mental state. You have to
be able to take yourself to the threshold of a journey, and the journey
seems to be returning to a time when immortality was known.
This explanation seemed
to approach Edgar Cayce's claim that the Great Pyramid was a temple of
initiation. We asked him to elaborate on this, and his reply was
surprising. We seem to be dealing with people who were convinced that they
had a science of immortality, and they built something that they felt was
a device to achieve it.
Bauval was obviously
referring to the priests at Heliopolis. But his description of their
activities and goals strayed far from conventional Egyptology. What I
think happened here is that we have a very powerful nucleus, a
messiah-making academy if you like, at Heliopolis, that maintained the
origin of an idea, maintained something, whether it's in physical form,
whether it's the Hall of Records, whatever. They were the keepers of it.
And they maintained it to a point where they finally were able to
physically create a place for it to rest forever. My impression, based on
the evidence, is that we're dealing with people who seem to know their
origins, who knew where they came from, literally, and they wanted to
maintain this knowledge of their origins forever, never to be lost. They
seem to have been able to keep it for a long period of time, and finally
found, perhaps within their own academy, or outside, an individual who
could wield the nation in order to build what they had in mind, to find a
repository for this knowledge of origins. There were 2.000 - 3.000 years
of preparation for something to happen. And then it does happen. They find
the right guy, they find the right moment. And the point in time is 2.500
B.C. And then their mission was accomplished, and they left.
THE GODS OF ORION
By this time, Bauval had
used the “A” word (alien) twice, in other contexts, and he was now clearly
advancing towards Stargate country. Although there are no ancient
astronaut implications in his book, it was beginning to appear that he may
have now begun to think about it, so we decided to turn the conversation
in that direction. His response was startling, and placed his entire body
of research and theory into a totally new domain. His answers put the
capstone on his discovery, and suddenly it all made perfect sense. We
could see that this was obviously not just an add-on idea, but was
seamlessly integrated into his theoretical framework.
Bauval first argued that
the Pyramid Texts were directing the dead king specifically to a place
underneath the Sphinx. We are led to conclude that by following the
instructions, we reach a date of 10.500 B.C., and that somewhere
underneath the Sphinx, somewhere between the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid,
is something that has to do with 10.500 B.C. I'm translating the message
as it is written in the Pyramid Texts, and on the monuments. And he's
supposed to arrive at the region called horacty when he's finished his
journey. And there he's arrived at the time of the gods, and this is
declared to be the place of the first time. What he's told then is that
when he reaches here, he's at the entrance of the necropolis. And now
comes the terrestrial journey. It's said that now at this entrance he has
to find the astral body of his father, of Osiris. So from here, he has to
go to the pyramids, which are behind him, which we know represent the
astral body of Osiris. But he is actually told to go under the Sphinx. The
message is to find the astral body which is behind you, you have to
proceed to that point. And what we find there is a plaque in front of the
Sphinx, a stele. And on it is written, This is the place of the first
time. Surprisingly nobody has picked up its meaning.
The time had now come to
ask the obvious question, the key question; what were the origins that the
priests were so jealously guarding? Where did they come from? We pointed
out to Bauval that the configuration of the three pyramids in replication
of the Orion stars was only obvious from the sky. That observation
elicited the following amazing reply. What they are telling us, whether we
like it or not, is that the gods came from the sky, and one of them, the
major one, came from Orion. And they're telling us that in 10.500 B.C.
they buried the body of Orion at Giza. And they're leading us on just
enough, but making it hard to find. It isn't Robert Bauval that is saying
this. The message is there.
When Bauval made that
statement, the words of Von Daniken and Sitchin flashed through our mind.
All of a sudden, it all made sense, the Nazca Plain, Maccu Piccu, and
Teotechaun. What makes Bauval's conclusion so convincing is the route by
which he got there. He didn't start out with the extraterrestrial
hypothesis, but arrived at it after painstaking study of the Pyramid
texts, and a corresponding highly scientific astronomical study of the
monuments. The body of evidence is there for anyone to see. 10.500 years
before Christ, some super intelligent beings knew all about precession and
galactic astronomy, and all the dimensions of the planet, and they laid
out a construction plan on earth to duplicate the star patterns in order
to leave behind an indestructible message telling us where they came from,
and perhaps, where we came from!
THE GALILEO SYNDROME
Having now revealed his
entire message, Bauval felt free to comment on the extraordinary
resistance to these ideas by the establishment, archaeologists and
Egyptologists, who refuse to even consider the star theory, and who have
even been accused of suppressing some important new discoveries. There
are a few of us who are trying to maintain the tempo, and what we're
finding is the quintessential adversarial situation. There is enormous
resistance.
We're dealing with
something that is giving us a cosmic address, a cosmic time, and it's
screaming a message out loud. It's plain to read, but we won't accept it.
And we feel uncomfortable with something that we shouldn't feel
uncomfortable with. We live in a cosmic environment that cries out for us
to consider an outer space explanation. This planet may very well have
been visited. So, we may look like a bunch of fools now. But if we don't
speak up, in two or three generations time they'll say well, the evidence
was staring them in the face. They had these big things there. They were
obviously astronomical. There was obviously something to investigate, and
these idiots have concluded that they were tombs!'
If there is any faint
possibility that these people knew something that we don't know about our
origins, let alone immortality, then we should pursue it, whatever the
uncomfortable feeling we have. I can tell you that I am speaking far more
openly now than I would have two years ago. But we're dealing with
something of a scale and magnitude that has to be taken with the utmost
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