built as an Earthly representation of the Duat and placed in a way that would intentionally mirror
the duat on the earth at the time of construction.
Fig.83As is known to us and was also known to the ancient Egyptians, due to axial wobble, the earth
experiences a gradual movement of the stars across the skies. This gradual movement is called
‘the precession of the equinoxes’ and is what gives us the changing signs of the zodiac.
This precession can be calculated by marking the slow rotation of the stars against the vernal
equinox. It takes 2160 years for one house of the zodiac to move completely past the vernal point.
An entire precession through all the signs of the zodiac takes 29,920 years to complete. Hancock
and Bauval used a computer model to simulate this axial wobble and determine exactly when the
Giza complex would represent an accurate depiction of the duat of earth. In the Keeper of Genesis
they had this to say:
“What is required in order to achieve the ideal ground-sky arrangement, is somehow to
‘rotate’ the heavens in an anti-clockwise direction... The vast engine of the earth’s axial wobble
offers us a mechanism by which this can be done: we need only instruct our computer to track the
precessionally induced movements of the stars backwards in time.”
“As it does so, millennium by millennium, we observe that the orientation of Orion’s belt at
culmination is slowly rotating anti-clockwise and thus approaching ever closer to our desired
meridian to meridian match. It is not until 10,000 BC however – 8000 years before the ‘Pyramid
Age’ that the perfect correlation is finally achieved with the Nile mirroring the Milky Way and the
three Pyramids and the three belt identically disposed to the same meridian”
It is only in this epoch that we can find a perfect ground to sky correlation and it is also the
only time when the sphinx would have gazed at his own celestial counterpart of Leo as it rose on
the vernal point. Hancock and Bauval go on to say:
“There is a feature of this 10,500 BC correlation which suggests strongly that coincidence is
not involved. The pattern that is frozen into monumental architecture in the form of the pyramids
marks a very significant moment in the 25,920 year procession cycle of the three stars of Orion’s
belt – one that is unlikely to have been selected at random by the Pyramid builders... The
question reduces to this: is it a coincidence, that the Giza necropolis as it has reached us today
out of the darkness of antiquity, is still dominated by a huge equinoctial lion statue at the east of
its horizon and by three gigantic pyramids disposed about its meridian in the distinctive manner
of the three stars of Orion’s belt in 10,500 BC?”
“And is it also coincidence that the monuments in this amazing astronomical theme park
manage to work together – almost as though geared, like the cogs-wheels of a clock – to tell the
same time?”
When this information was coupled with the West and Schoch water erosion evidence, the
picture was complete for them. But when West and Schoch completed testing their theory and
first excitedly announced the results of their investigations to the world, the outcry was almost
deafening and the barrage of criticism overwhelming. Egypt’s top Archeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass