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Alex,
My take on it is this;
The pyramids were built to direct your attention to the geometry and motion of the objects in the sky.
They were built in such a manner that they would outlast the civilisation or culture that built them.
The extent of the weathering of the Sphinx is not consistent with an arid climate, so it follows that it was already an old ruin at the end of the last ice age, 12,000 years ago which is basically when the rain stopped falling there in any significant quantity. I guess you could say that dynastic Egypt inherited a large portion of the artefacts in the Nile basin from a much older civilisation which collapsed many thousands of year prior to their epoch.
Some of the correlations with (things) astronomical are well documented (such as alignment to true North, alignment to Sirius et al).
Others, less so.
For example:
The length of the base is 365.262 cubits.
The keen eyed observer will note that this is the length of a year accurate to a minute or so!
The angle of the sides is not arbitrary.
If you call the length of the sides (at the base) 2 units, the distance from the middle of any side (at the base) to the apex is 1.61803 units.. which of course is Phi, the golden ratio.
If the pyramids were hollow and you were able to hang a rope from the apex to the desert floor below, then used that rope as a radius to draw a circle in the sand, that circle would have the same circumference as the perimeter of the entire pyramid... ergo) the pyramids use phi to define Pi !
fwiw) the angle of the sides of the pyramid (a bit over 51 degrees) is approximately the latitude of Stonehenge, where the difference between the positions of the summer and winter solstice sunrise defines a perfect right angle.
Also.... and the following bit is absolutely not consistent with our understanding of ancient history... so put it down to extraordinary coincidence if you will...
The ratio of the pyramid base length to its height is the same as the ratio of Earth's diameter to its polar radius + lunar polar radius to a high degree of accuracy.
As extraordinary as that may seem, there is a deeper factoid in there to ponder. The relative size of Earth and its moon could be said to be an abstract expression of the number Pi!
You can put that down to luck or you could speculate as to whether the Solar system was built by an Engineer with something of a sense of humour.
Whatever the case, I don't think the concept of a 'great architect in the sky' is inconsistent with what we know about pre-dynastic belief systems.
I don't think it is necessary to have a dog in the race either way to acknowledge that whoever built the pyramids was able to elicit a degree of motivation and commitment from the people who made up their society that would be impossible to replicate today short of the clouds parting, and Angels on fiery chariots delivered the CAD files directly to every person on the planet.
Point being, they thought it was important enough to devote every spare ounce of material and effort in order to pull it off. There must have been a compelling argument on the table.
~c
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