"As near as makes no difference, therefore, the perimeter of the Great Pyramid's base is indeed 1 : 43200 of the equatorial circumference of the earth. And as near as makes no difference, the height of the Great Pyramid above that base is indeed 1 : 43200 of the polar radius of the earth. In other words, during all the centuries of darkness experienced by the Western civilization when knowledge of our planet's dimensions was lost to us, all we ever needed to do to rediscover that knowledge was to measure the height and base perimeter of the Great Pyramid and multiply by 43200! How likely is this to be an 'accident'? The commonsense answer is 'not very likely at all', since it should be obvious to any reasonable person that what we are looking at could only be the result of a deliberate and carefully calculated planning decision. Commonsense, however, has never been a faculty held in high esteem by Egyptologists, and it is therefore necessary to ask whether there is anything else in the data which might confirm that the ration of 1 : 43200 is a purposeful expression of intelligence and knowledge, rather than some numerical fluke. The ratio itself seems to provide that confirmation, for the simple reason that 43200 is not a random number (like, say, 45000 or 47000, or 50500, or 38800). On the contrary it is one of a series of numbers, and multiples of numbers, which relate to the phenomenon of precession of the equinoxes, and which have become embedded in archaic myths all around the world. As the reader can confirm by glancing back at Part V the basic numerals of the Pyramid / Earth ratio crop up again and again in those myths, sometimes directly as 43200 sometimes as 432, as 4320, as 43200, as 4320000, and so on. What we appear to be confronted by are two remarkable propositions, back-to-back, as though designed to reinforce one another. It is surely remarkable enough that the Great Pyramid should be able to function as an accurate scale-model of the northern hemisphere of planet earth. But it is even more remarkable that the scale involved should incorporate numbers relating precisely to one of the key planetary mechanisms of the earth. This is the fixed and apparently eternal precession of its axis of rotation around the pole of the ecliptic, a phenomenon which causes the vernal point to migrate around the band of the zodiac at the rate of one degree every 72 years, and 30 degrees (one complete zodiacal constellation) every 2160 years. Precession through two zodiacal constellations, or 60 degrees along the ecliptic, takes 4320 years." (Hancock) |