{"collection":"earth","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/earth/osgp/osgp02.htm","path":"earth/osgp/osgp02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/earth/osgp/osgp02.htm","text":"The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid, by C. Staniland Wake, [1882]\n| CHAPTER I | | \n| THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH | 1 | \n| THEORY OF INSPIRED ORIGIN OF GREAT PYRAMID | 2 | \n| DATE OF ERECTION | 6 | \n| ASTRONOMICAL EXPLANATION OF STRUCTURE | 7 | \n| ASTROLOGICAL THEORY OF ORIGIN | 13 | \n| PRIMARY OBJECT RELIGIOUS | 18 | \n| CHAPTER II | | \n| EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION | | \n| SUPPOSED INABILITY OF ANCIENT PEOPLES TO DESIGN THE GREAT PYRAMID | 20 | \n| EARLIEST EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS | 24 | \n| DIFFERENCES OF INTERNAL CONSTRUCTION | 25 | \n| EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION UNDER FOURTH DYNASTY | 27 | \n| EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION AT FOUNDATION OF MONARCHY | 32 | \n| CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLIER EGYPTIANS | 35 | \n| p. vii | | \n| CHAPTER III | | \n| THE TOMB THEORY | | \n| | PAGE | \n| TESTIMONY OF GREEK WRITERS | 38 | \n| COMPARISON WITH FACTS | 42 | \n| THE TOMB OF CHEOPS | 45 | \n| USE OF PYRAMIDS AS TOMBS | 48 | \n| ABSENCE OF RELICS EXPLAINED | 50 | \n| CHAPTER IV | | \n| THE RELIGIOUS THEORY | | \n| THE GREAT PYRAMID CONSIDERED AS A TEMPLE | 54 | \n| THE SAB\u00c6ANS AND THE PYRAMIDS | 56 | \n| SETH AND OSIRIS | 59 | \n| SETH THE GOD OF THE SEMITES AND THE HYKSOS | 60 | \n| ASSOCIATION OF SETH WITH THE GREAT PYRAMID | 66 | \n| CHAPTER V | | \n| SETH AND SERPENT WORSHIP | | \n| THE GOD OF WISDOM | 70 | \n| IDEAS CONNECTED WITH THE SERPENT | 72 | \n| SETH IDENTIFIED WITH TYPHON | 77 | \n| ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SERPENT | 81 | \n| THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE DELUGE | 83 | \n| AGE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID | 85 | \n| THE PYRAMID AND THE CONSTELLATIONS | 87 | \n| p. viii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| NOTE. | | \n| ON THE COFFER IN THE \"KING'S CHAMBER\" | 92 | \n| APPENDIX I. | | \n| DR. SPRENGER ON THE CONNECTION OF SETH AND HERMES WITH THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH | 94 | \n| APPENDIX II. | | \n| MASOUDI'S ACCOUNT OF THE ERECTION, ETC., OF THE GREAT PYRAMID | 98 | \n \n \nClick to enlarge\nHuman skulls unearthed during the excavations of the Temple of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh.","title":"The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid: Table o...","type":"page"}