'Bauval and Gilbert put forward the very
reasonable theory that Orion's Belt had inspired the layout of the Giza pyramids...'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 404)'Bauval has effectively withdrawn his argument that the Giza pyramids match the stars of Orion
exactly at 10450 BC. As I understand it, the accuracy of this alignment was a crucial part of Bauval's argument. If there is no accuracy, then there is no datable alignment, period.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'A neutral observer... would accept the stellar alignment of the Giza pyramids in principle, whilst remaining sceptical of the highly accurate 10450 bc 'lock in', for
this specific date is meaningless unless it can be independently established that a pre-dynastic culture was actually observing the heavens from Giza at such a remote time.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 87)
'the
position and size of the Third Pyramid were deliberately fixed so as to associate all three pyramids of Giza with the belt of Orion, and hence Osiris. This symbolism was a supreme stroke of genius by Menkaure, which
visibly restored the religious integrity of the entire site, which had been so perverted by Khufu and Khafre.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 370)
'The very idea of the Great Pyramid's shafts targeting certain stars is
highly dubious... If only one of these four shafts could not have practically been aligned to the stars, it would throw doubt on the other three; as it is, there are significant doubts on all four.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 11)
'... down-to-earth practicalities speak firmly against the idea that the shafts were aligned to certain stars. These shafts are not straight, they're kinked. And one of them is blocked off
by a stone door.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'An Interview with Alan Alford', 20th July 1998)
'Most Egyptologists believe that the shafts played a part in a religious ritual, perhaps allowing the king's Ba-soul to
ascend to the Sun-god or to the stars, as described in the Pyramid Texts. If this was so, why do we not find similar shafts in any
of the later pyramids, especially those of the 5th and 6th Dynasties which were actually inscribed with the Pyramid Texts? The entire concept of the king's Ba
ascending through these shafts is highly questionable, for there was a continuous belief throughout the history of ancient Egypt that the Ba
could pass through solid doors and walls. The builders need not have gone to the trouble of making the shafts if this was the objective.'
(The Phoenix Solution pp. 65-66)
'Clearly the constellation of Orion was
important to the ancient Egyptian kings, but it was not their specific afterlife destination, and we must place the twenty or so references to Orion in the context of more than seven hundred utterances in the Pyramid
Texts, which mostly deal with an ascent to Re or Nut.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 247)
'the Pyramid Texts suggest that Orion was only the visible gateway to an invisible and metaphysical 'Duat'.'
(The Phoenix Solution caption to Plate 44)
'the stars of Sirius and Orion were seen as a gateway to the body of Nut, which was the king's real destination.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 253)
'the Egyptians used the
stars of Orion and Sirius to tell a story about two deities - two exploded planets - which descended from Heaven to Earth. And such was the permanence of this profound symbolism that we can still read the same story six
thousand years later.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 108)
'When one goes back to basics with the meaning of the Egyptian texts, using the exploded planet hypothesis, it becomes apparent that the stellar cult has been
greatly exaggerated.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 251)
