Pyramidology
Pyramidology (or pyramidism) refers
to various religious or pseudoscientific speculations
regarding pyramids,
most often the Giza
pyramid complex and
the Great
Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Some
"pyramidologists" also are involved in studying the pyramids of pre-Columbian America (such
as Teotihuacan,
the Mesoamerican Maya
civilization,
and the Inca of
the South
American Andes),
and the temples of Southeast
Asia.
Some pyramidologists claim that the
Great Pyramid of Giza has encoded within it predictions for the
Exodus of
the Hebrews from Egypt,[4] the crucifixion
of Jesus,[4] the
start of World
War I,[5][6] the
founding of modern-day Israel in
1948, and future events including the beginning of Armageddon;
this was discovered by using what they call "pyramid
inches"
to calculate the passage of time where one British inch equals one solar
year.
Pyramidology reached its peakin the early 1980s.
Interest was revived in 1992 and 1993 when Rudolf Gantenbrink sent
remote-con-trolled robots up
from the Queen's Chamber.
The main types of pyramidological accounts involve one or more aspects
which include:
Metrological:
theories regarding the cons-truction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by
hypo-thetical geometric measurements
Numerological:
theories that the measure-ments of the Great Pyramid and its
passages have esoteric significance,
and that their geo-metric measurements
contain some encoded message. This form of pyramidology is popular with British
Israelists and Bible
Students.
Pseudoarchaeological:
"pyramid
power":
claims originating in the late 1960s that pyramids as geometrical
shapes possess supernatural powers.
And
varying theories that deny that the pyramids were built
exclusively as tombs for the Pharaohs;
alternative explanations regarding the construction of the pyramids (for
example the use of long-lost knowledge asuch as anti=
gravity technology,
etc.); and hypotheses that they were built by someone other than the
historical Ancient
Egyptians (e.g.
early Hebrews, Atlanteans,
or even extraterrestrials)