The Mystery of Orion

Author: Robert Bauval
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: For thousands of years, the pyramids have loomed grandly and mysteriously, guarding their secrets: What was the true reason for the Egyptians to build the pyramids? What was buried in the hidden chambers of the Great Pyramid? What astonishing secrets have been hidden there for 4,500 years? You will find the answers to these questions in this book. The Orion Mystery is his book. Robert Bauval studied the precession events symbolized by the pyramids and discovered a great revelation: They indicate that around the time of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), when the builders of the Great Pyramid were in power, the star cluster Orion was suspended passing through the celestial equator, moving from the lower sky to the upper sky. Then, around 2080 BCE, during the era when the Pyramid Texts were placed in the pyramids of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, the star Aldebaran underwent the same event. In relation to each other, this means that the pyramids of Orion now "belong" to Upper Egypt. A dispute over land was not settled by land contracts but resolved through the mystery of the stars' precession. No priest could defy the great Nine Pillars of Heliopolis—the decision of the gods of the sky.