THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

        Located at the site of ancient city of Memphis this area has a rich history and culture that is shockingly void of references to the origin of the Great Pyramid. How important is the Great Pyramid in the overall scheme of things?  This is a world where technology has escaped from the lab and is now ravenously consuming and dictating almost every aspect of human life. Of what use is a stone monument, millenniums old, in the middle of a desert, without even the smallest of signs left to tell us what it was?  You can't get much less technical than that!  But a closer study shows some surprising technical aspects to this particular monument, one of them being where in the desert it is located. The pyramid is located at 29 degrees, 58 minutes, 51.06 seconds north latitude, and 31 degrees, 9 minutes, and 0.0 seconds east longitude. The north-south axis is the longest land meridian, passing through Asia, Africa, Europe, and Antarctica, and the east-west axis is the longest land parallel running through the African, Asian, and north American continents. These two lines of latitude and longitude on which it lies pass through more land and less water than any others.  In layman's language the pyramid lies at the very center of the earth's entire land mass. T he only other point of intersection of these two lines is over the ocean.  This choice by an Egyptian builder 5000 years ago virtually impossible.  First these lines were unknown five millennia ago for one simple reason.  There was no world travel, no world map, no concept that the world was even a planet. T hey thought the earth was flat.  It was not until thousands of years in the future that the center of the earth's land mass could even be guessed at.  And not until satellite photography that the exact center could be located.  Yet we are expected to believe that without the use of something as simple as a compass they had any possible means or any logical reason to accomplish such a feat.  Since there is enough land area on earth to provide three billion possible sites for the pyramid, the odds of this being random are 1 in 3 billion.  Lines drawn through the pyramid to the four cardinal points of the compass divide equally the earth's terrain.  It is therefore the logical and geographical zero of longitude, rather than Greenwich, England.   Bottom line; they wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't. No technology, no way!!  Yet the builder was even more precise with this monument's exact placement on the Giza plateau itself .  Located at the edge of a cliff, an immense amount of excavation and leveling was required to place it on such a precise point. There were many other more practical areas on the Giza plateau this structure could have been erected. A grading contractor would probably consider this placement one of the most difficult areas on the plateau.  Thousands of yards of solid granite had to be cut away in one area while thousands of yards of fill had to be placed in another.  Great pains to put it right there would require better surveying technology than exists today.

        And yet another impossible and seemingly unnecessary step was taken in the course of this placing.  In truth it is the most precisely oriented building on earth.  Deviating only 3/60th of a degree off true north it is aligned with the four cardinal points, more accurately than any contemporary structure, including the meridian building at the Greenwich Observatory in London.  The Paris observatory, is six minutes of a degree off true north.  The great pyramid is only three minutes off given the odds a chance of about 1 in 200,000 if accidental.  And it had to be accidental because nobody knew in that day where true north was or for that matter even what true north was.  Since the position of the north pole moves over time the pyramid was probably exactly aligned to true north at one time.  All this precision 4000 years before the compass is invented.   And if you do figure the center of the land mass odds your into the quadrillions or about 40 million more times likely to win the state lottery. Sounds confusing doesn't it ? But not near as confusing as trying to believe that this was random. With these numbers it is certainly easier to see that there was a purpose to all this precision and that somebody had the purpose and the means. It is there therefore it is.

        One of the questions often asked is why are there 'air shafts` in a building meant for a 'dead` pharaoh. Other pyramids and mastabas, (burial chambers), weren't built with ventilation, why this one? Well, perhaps the name is wrong and a more appropriate name would be 'star shafts`. Why star shafts? Consider the following:

The north shaft of the Kings Chamber is aligned with Alpha Draconis formerly Earth's Pole star

The south shaft of the Kings Chamber is aligned with Zeta Orionis

The north shaft of the Queens Chamber is aligned with Orion

The south shaft of the Queens Chamber is aligned with Sirius

        The air shafts aren't the only star pointers in the Great Pyramid. The Descending Passage seems star bound ! Between 2170 and 2144 it was aligned with Alpha Draconis then the Pole star. For 4141 years it languished in relative stellar insignificance until 1997 when Polaris the current Pole star began to cast its light down its 344 ft. almost perfectly straight shaft. It will illuminate the bottom of that shaft in 2004. And there is the layout of the three largest pyramids on the Giza Plateau one of which is second in worldwide building size only to the Great Pyramid. Their relative positions mirror the positions of the three stars in the Belt of Orion. What this star alignment means is known only to the builder. Archeoastronomy which is the science of historical stellar alignment has speculated as to the significance of these anomalies. Societies of belief have embraced them. But little is said about why an ancient pharaoh would or could design and install all these complicated calibrations. After all this would have taken a 'rocket scientist`.  No, Khufu couldn't have even if he'd wanted to.

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