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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

It was hard to disagree with sentiments like these: the Texts did<br />

disclose a vanished world. But what intrigued me most about this world<br />

was the possibility that it might have been inhabited not only by primitive<br />

savages (as one would have expected in remote prehistory) but,<br />

paradoxically, by men and women whose minds had been enlightened by<br />

a scientific understanding of the cosmos. The overall picture was<br />

equivocal: there were genuinely primitive elements locked into the<br />

Pyramid Texts alongside the loftier sequences of ideas. Nevertheless,<br />

every time I immersed myself in what Egyptologists call ‘these ancient<br />

spells’, I was impressed by the strange glimpses they seemed to afford of<br />

a high intelligence at work, darting from behind layers of<br />

incomprehension, reporting on experiences that ‘prehistoric man’ should<br />

never have had and expressing notions he should never have been able<br />

to formulate. In short, the effect the Texts achieved through the medium<br />

of hieroglyphs was akin to the effect the Great Pyramid achieved through<br />

the medium of architecture. In both cases the dominant impression was<br />

of anachronism—of advanced technological processes used or described<br />

at a period in human history when there was supposed to have been no<br />

technology at all ...<br />

1944, p. 69.<br />

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