Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

In appendix 1 we look in detail at the motion of Sirius and find that Giza was actually the place on Earth where
Sirius went down to rest briefly exactly on the horizon at the lowest point of its twenty-sixthousand-year cycle, and that
occurred basically in this same epoch, circa 12,280 BCE. Further, we find that the light of the Mother of All Pole Stars,
Vega, shone down the subterranean passages at Giza and Dashur in the same epoch, 12,070 BCE. In appendix 1 we also
review how the Orion’s belt-to-pyramids layout dates are also in this same general epoch. It is now well accepted that in
the Great Pyramid the southern shaft of the Queen’s Chamber marks the date of 2500 BCE, around the construction date
of the monument—but what other shaft elsewhere in the Great Pyramid marks Zep Tepi?
The internal design of the Great Pyramid has been the source of numerous theories, none of which have provided a
satisfactory solution to the many questions it poses or solves the great mystery that has baffled generations of researchers.
In spite of this, Egyptologists are nonetheless adamant that the Great Pyramid served a funerary purpose, and they point
for evidence to the so-called King’s Chamber and the empty and undecorated sarcophagus in this otherwise totally barren
and totally uninscribed room. At first this consensus appears convincing, but for the troublesome fact that there are two
other chambers in the pyramid: the so-called Queen’s Chamber, which lies some 21 meters (69 feet) beneath the King’s
Chamber, and also the so-called subterranean chamber that is 20 meters (66 feet) beneath the pyramid’s base and cuts
into the living rock. At a loss to explain why three sepulcher chambers would be needed for only one dead king,
Egyptologists for a long time had assumed that the subterranean chamber and the Queen’s Chamber were abandoned and
that the ancient architect had for some reason changed his design three times regarding where the burial chamber should
be. Today this abandonment theory has itself been abandoned. Most modern architects and construction engineers believe
the entire monument was constructed according to a well-established plan, which was executed without any major
alterations. There is, too, the nagging fact that no mummy or corpse was ever found in the Great Pyramid or, for that
matter, in any other royal pyramid in Egypt. True, many pyramids contained empty sarcophagi, but this does not
necessarily mean that these sarcophagi were meant for dead bodies. They could easily have served a ritual function rather
than a practical function as coffins. Perhaps the most convincing fact that the Great Pyramid was not a tomb—or at least,
not only a tomb—is that its design contains detailed and accurate astronomical and mathematical data that, if properly
understood and decoded, seem to suggest a completely different message than that claimed by Egyptologists.
Figure 6.2. The Great Pyramid of Giza’s subterranean passage and internal platform aligned to the North Star, Vega,
and to Sirius at Zep Tepi. The star shafts built into the upper portions of the completed pyramid aligned to the same and
related stars during the Old Kingdom fourth dynasty.
Returning to the question of the date of Zep Tepi and the internal design of the Great Pyramid, the fact that the
southern shaft of the Queen’s Chamber was aimed at Sirius about 2500 BCE, when the star was at 39.5 degrees and was
at essentially 0 degrees in the centuries around 12,200 BCE, when it rested on the horizon as seen from Giza, and the fact
that the cycles of Sirius were used by the pyramid builders for both long-term and short-term calendric computations
justifies a surmise that the horizontal passage leading to the Queen’s Chamber was intended to mark the 0-degree altitude
of Sirius at its southern culmination. If the Great Pyramid was designed to symbolize one thing, it is, without question,
the sky vault—for the perimeter of the pyramid’s square base relative to its height represents the same ratio as the
circumference of a circle to its radius. We are to think of the Great Pyramid, therefore, not as a pyramid at all, but as a
symbolic hemisphere or as a reduced model of the hemispherical sky vault above it.
The southern shaft in the Queen’s Chamber invites us to consider two altitudes of the star Sirius, one at 39.5
degrees and the other at 0 degrees, thus determining two dates: 2500 BCE, which is probably the actual construction date