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

suggest that Egyptian civilization had roots going back almost 40,000<br />

years,’ he mused, ‘like that strange report in Herodotus that talks about<br />

the sun rising where it once set and setting where it once rose ...’<br />

‘Which is also a precessional metaphor ...’<br />

‘Yes. Precession again. Most peculiar the way it always keeps cropping<br />

up ... At any rate, you’re right, they could have been marking the<br />

beginning of the previous precessional cycle ...’<br />

‘But do you think they were?’<br />

‘No. I think 10,450 BC is the more likely date. It’s more within the range<br />

of what we know about the evolution of homo sapiens. And although it<br />

still leaves a lot of years to account for before the sudden emergence of<br />

dynastic Egypt around 3000 BC, it isn’t too long a period ...’<br />

‘Too long a period for what?’<br />

‘It’s the answer to your question about the 8000-year gap between the<br />

alignment of the site and the alignment of the shafts. Eight thousand<br />

years is a very long time but it isn’t too long for a dedicated highly<br />

motivated cult to have preserved and nurtured and faithfully passed on<br />

the high-knowledge of the people who invented this place in 10,450 BC.’ 14<br />

The machine<br />

How high was the knowledge of those prehistoric inventors?<br />

‘They knew their epochs,’ said Bauval, ‘and the clock that they used was<br />

the natural clock of the stars. Their working language was precessional<br />

astronomy and these monuments express that language in a very clear,<br />

unambiguous, scientific manner. They were also highly skilled<br />

surveyors—I mean the people who originally prepared the site and laid<br />

14 Just as any great Christian cathedral, however modern (for example the twentiethcentury<br />

gothic cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco), expresses the thinking,<br />

symbolism and iconography of the Judaeo-Christian ‘cult’ which has roots at least 4000<br />

years old, it should not be impossible to imagine a cult enduring for 8000 years in<br />

Ancient Egypt and thus linking the epoch of 10450 BC to 2,450 BC. The completion of<br />

the pyramids at that time, like the completion of a cathedral today, would therefore have<br />

resulted in structures that expressed extremely old ideas. Plentiful evidence exists<br />

within Ancient Egyptian tradition which seems to attest to the existence and<br />

preservation of such ancient ideas. For example, ‘King Nefer-hetep [XIIIth Dynasty] was a<br />

loyal worshipper of Osiris and hearing that his Temple [at Abydos] was in ruins, and that<br />

a new statue of the god was required, he went to the temple of Ra-Atum at Heliopolis,<br />

and consulted the books in the library there, so that he might learn how to make a<br />

statue of Osiris which should be like that which had existed in the beginning of the<br />

world ...’ (Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, volume II, p. 14). Also Sacred Science;<br />

pp. 103-4, explains that the construction of temples in the Ptolemaic and late periods of<br />

Egyptian history continued to obey very ancient specifications: ‘All the plans always refer<br />

to a divine book; thus the temple of Edfu was rebuilt under the Ptolemies according to<br />

the book of foundation composed by Imhotep, a book descended from heaven to the<br />

north of Memphis. The temple of Dendera followed a plan recorded in ancient writings<br />

dating from the Companions of Horus.’<br />

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