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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governed the whole country from the Indus to the mouth of the Ganges, and spread themselves, mainly by colonization and commerce, very far throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe.t They colonized the coast of the Persian Gulf, the sea-coasts of Arabia, Palestine, and Africa, and were the long-haired people called the Berbers in North Africa” (our italics—refer quotation above from Garnier and meaning of Shufu, “ long-haired”’). “‘ They are likewise called Palestine, which name has close affinity with the Philition of Herodotus . . . It would thus appear that the shepherd prince connected with the building of the Great Pyramid was from Arabia, and subsequently located in Palestine (Philistia), hence probably called Philition—the Philistian.”

Note H: THe Messtanic ELEMENT IN THE GREAT PYRAMID (page 30)

Elsewhere Mr. Davidson refers to this Messianic element in the Great Pyramid as follows: ‘‘ So universally widespread are the traditions relating to Pyramid Messianism in the ancient East, that the writer has become convinced that Pyramid Apocalyptic literature existed even before the Great Pyramid was built. This would account for the high regard in which the pyramid type of construction was held, even before the fourth Egyptian Dynasty—when the Great Pyramid was built. The association of the ideal pyramid science, in pre-pyramid days, with the mystery of death and the promise of resurrection, would satisfactorily account for the origin of burial mounds of pyramidal form, and would also explain the origin of embalming.”

That such a belief in Messianism existed as a definite prophecy in all the literary systems of the ancient East has, during the last few years, been corroborated by Professor Waddell in his Phanictan Origin of Britons, Scots, and

* Refer chapter on “‘ The Builders of the Great Pyramid” in the author’s Witness of the Great Pyramid as to the universal colonization carried out by the race responsible for the erection of the Great Pyramid.

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