Fresh Batch #20: Is the Great Pyramid of Giza a Temple of Janus?

What Did The Ancients Call Me?

Khufu is well known under his Hellenized name Χέοψ, Khéops or Cheops. Click here for imagery related to Khufu. The Greek letter ψ is the ps in psyche. In other words, it is interchangeable with s in terms of pronunciation. Khéops may encode Chaos, or Chaos may come from Khéops. If true, why would this be one of the most significant cultural discoveries of ancient Egypt? Keep reading.

The only known ivory statuette of the Ancient Egyptian Old kingdom king Khufu (2609-2584 BC), builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, on display at the Egyptian Museum in the capital Cairo.

Deloria wrote (God Is Red), “The Great Pyramid of Cheops, for example, is incredible. Its base covers 13 acres or 7 midtown blocks of the city of New York. From this broad area, leveled to within a fraction of an inch, more than two-and-a-half-million blocks of limestone and granite—weighing from 2 to 70 tons apiece—rise in 201 stepped tiers to the height of a modern forty-story building. (Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid.) A construction project the size of this pyramid would have been a task of no mean proportions. Suppose that the workers had placed a minimum of twenty blocks of stone a day in the structure—a feat that would have been virtually impossible, yet still conceivable. Working steadily they would have assembled the 2.5 million stone blocks in about 125,000 days or 342 years. In this projection we have still not accounted for cutting the blocks, carrying them down the Nile, and bringing them to the assembly place. And we have projected a straight working project, not a summertime government make-work project as Fairservis and other scholars have assumed. If the Pilgrims had begun building a pyramid the size of the pyramid of Cheops to celebrate their safe landing in America, they would have finished the project in 1962, perhaps just in time to receive a government grant to celebrate. Is the traditional interpretation of history really an exercise in credibility?”

Again, “The world is, as we have noted, literally strewn with ruins of overwhelming proportions, structures that we cannot duplicate today if we wished to do so, yet the Western interpretation of world history is always skirting a straightforward effort to incorporate theories about the origin of these ruins and structures. We are fixed on a rather staid reading of human history because we are emotionally and religiously tied to the assumption, today perhaps subconsciously at least, that everything is pretty much the way people once believed centuries ago.”

Magnum Chaos, wood-inlay by Giovan Francesco Capoferri at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, based on a design by Lorenzo Lotto.

What did the ancients call Janus?

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