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

out the orientations for the pyramids—because they worked to an<br />

exacting geometry and because they knew how to align the baseplatforms,<br />

or whatever it was they built, perfectly to the cardinal points.’<br />

‘Do you think they also knew that they were marking out the site of the<br />

Great Pyramid on latitude 30° North?’<br />

Bauval laughed: I’m certain they knew. I think they knew everything<br />

about the shape of the earth. They knew their astronomy. They had a<br />

good understanding of the solar system and of celestial mechanics. They<br />

were also incredibly accurate and incredibly precise in everything they<br />

did. So, all in all, I don’t think anything really happened here by chance—<br />

at least not between 10,450 and 2450 BC. I get the feeling that everything<br />

was planned, intended, carefully worked out ... Indeed I get the feeling<br />

that they were fulfilling a long-term objective—some kind of purpose, if<br />

you like, and that they brought this to fruition in the third millennium BC<br />

...<br />

‘In the form of the fully built pyramids which they then precessionally<br />

anchored to Al Nitak and to Sirius at the time of completion?’<br />

‘Yes. And also, I think, in the form of the Pyramid Texts. My guess is<br />

that the Pyramid Texts are part of the puzzle.’<br />

‘The software to the Pyramids’ hardware?’<br />

‘Quite possibly. Why not? At any rate it’s certain that there’s a<br />

connection. I think what it means is that if we’re going to decode the<br />

pyramids properly then we’re going to have to use the Texts ...’<br />

‘What’s your guess?’ I asked Bauval. ‘What do you think the purpose of<br />

the pyramid builders really might have been?’<br />

‘They didn’t do it because they wanted an eternal tomb,’ he replied<br />

firmly. ‘In my view, they had no doubts at all that they would eternally<br />

live. They did it—whoever did it—they have transmitted the power of their<br />

ideas through something that is to all intents and purposes eternal. They<br />

succeeded in creating a force that is functional in itself, provided you<br />

understand it, and that force is the questions it challenges you to ask. My<br />

guess is that they knew the human mind to perfection. They knew the<br />

game of ritual ... Right? I’m serious. They knew what they were doing.<br />

They knew that they could initiate people far ahead in the future into<br />

their way of thinking even though they couldn’t be there themselves.<br />

They knew that they could do this by creating an eternal machine, the<br />

function of which was to generate questions.’<br />

I suppose that I must have looked puzzled.<br />

‘The machine is the pyramids!’ Bauval exclaimed, ‘the whole of the Giza<br />

necropolis really. And look at us. What are we doing? We’re asking<br />

questions. We’re standing out here, shivering, at an ungodly hour,<br />

watching the sun come up, and we’re asking questions, lots and lots of<br />

questions just as we’ve been programmed to do. We’re in the hands of<br />

real magicians here, and real magicians know that with symbols—with the<br />

right symbols, with the right questions—they can lead you into initiating<br />

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