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

precession of the equinoxes, and which have become embedded in<br />

archaic myths all around the world. As the reader can confirm by glancing<br />

back at Part V the basic numerals of the Pyramid/Earth ratio crop up<br />

again and again in those myths, sometimes directly as 43,200 sometimes<br />

as 432, as 4320, as 432,000, as 4,320,000, and so on.<br />

What we appear to be confronted by are two remarkable propositions,<br />

back-to-back, as though designed to reinforce one another. It is surely<br />

remarkable enough that the Great Pyramid should be able to function as<br />

an accurate scale-model of the northern hemisphere of planet earth. But<br />

it is even more remarkable that the scale involved should incorporate<br />

numbers relating precisely to one of the key planetary mechanisms of the<br />

earth. This is the fixed and apparently eternal precession of its axis of<br />

rotation around the pole of the ecliptic, a phenomenon which causes the<br />

vernal point to migrate around the band of the zodiac at the rate of one<br />

degree every 72 years, and 30 degrees (one complete zodiacal<br />

constellation) every 2160 years. Precession through two zodiacal<br />

constellations, or 60 degrees along the ecliptic, takes 4320 years. 13<br />

The constant repetition of these precessional numbers in ancient myths<br />

could, perhaps, be a coincidence. Viewed in isolation, the appearance of<br />

the precessional number 43,200 in the pyramid/earth ratio might also be<br />

a coincidence (although the odds against this must be astronomical). But<br />

when we find precessional numbers in both these very different media—<br />

the ancient myths and the ancient monument—it really does strain<br />

credulity to suppose that coincidence is all that is involved here.<br />

Moreover, just as the Teutonic myth of Valhalla’s walls leads us to the<br />

precessional number 432,000 by inviting us to calculate the warriors who<br />

‘go to war with the Wolf (500 plus 40 multiplied by 800, as saw in<br />

Chapter Thirty-three), so the Great Pyramid leads us to the precessional<br />

number 43,200 by demonstrating through the pi relationship that it<br />

might be a scale-model part of the earth and then by inviting us to<br />

calculate that scale.<br />

Matching fingerprints?<br />

At El Minya our escort vehicles left us, though the plain-clothes soldier in<br />

the front seat stayed with us until Cairo. We paused for a late lunch of<br />

bread and felafel in a boisterous, noisy village, then motored north again.<br />

Throughout all this, my thoughts remained focused on the Great<br />

Pyramid. Obviously it was not an accident that so immense and<br />

conspicuous a structure should occupy a key geographic and geodetic<br />

location in a part of the world that appeared, bizarrely, to have been<br />

conceived of and ‘geometrized’ as a rectangular, symbolic construct<br />

exactly seven terrestrial degrees in length. But it was the pyramid’s other<br />

13 See Part V.<br />

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