The mystery of the Great pyramid : traditions concerning it and its connection with the Egyptian Book of the dead : with numerous illustrations

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“ earth ” of Genesis, such identification being confirmed by the most recent archzological discoveries in that region.

The chief cause of the destruction of ancient monuments and records are earthquakes and floods, and since Egypt is preserved from the latter both by the Nile and the absence of rainfall—while really severe seismic disturbances have been of rare occurrence (one in A.D. goo and another in 1301 being the only instances apparently recorded)its monuments have escaped destruction. Hence the fact that Egypt possesses no distinct flood story.

Even supposing we regard the Deluge of Genesis as a universal one, it should be noted that the account gives only a lapse of 104 months from the commencement of the rain until the earth was dry again; that is, from the seventeenth day of the second month in one year (600th of Noah’s life, Gen. vii, 11) to the first day of the first month of the following year (Gen. viii, 13), which would give a total submergence under water of barely nine months only. This would hardly be sufficient to damage stone and brick buildings with their carvings and inscriptions, though it might cover them to some extent with a coating of mud, but the buildings themselves would remain intact, while one of the nature of the Great Pyramid, virtually a solid mass of masonry with a perfectly smooth surface, would be quite unaffected.

Note G: THE ForEIGN ORIGIN OF THE GREAT PYRAMID BuILpers (page 27)

That Khufu (or Shufu, as the name appears in the monumental lists) was probably of foreign origin, seems clearly implied in the following extract from Col. Garnier’s Great Pyramid: its Builder and its Prophecy: “ The name ‘ Shufu’,” he writes (p. 20), “‘ which was applied to both the builder of the Great Pyramid and his successor, is merely a soubriquet meaning ‘ long-haired’, indicating that both these kings possessed that peculiarity, which distinguished them from the rest of the Egyptians who scrupulously shaved.”

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